Qualitative Research: Data Collection

• Born digital text
  • Email
  • HTML
  • RSS feeds
  • Service-specific text collection tools:
    • Twitter
    • Wikipedia
    • Google Data Liberation Front
    • New York Times API
• Digitized texts
  • Internet Archive
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Google Books
  • Hathi Trust
  • JSTOR Data for Research* (with Early Journal Content bundle)
  • PubMed Open Access Subset
  • Monk Workbench*
  • Document Cloud*
  • Open American National Corpus (collection of American English from various sources)
  • WordHoard* (tagged literary texts)
  • Corpus of Contemporary American English includes spoken, fiction, newspaper, magazine, academic sources, 1990-present

* - also has some processing/analysis capabilities

• Reporter's Lab
  From Duke's Center for Media and Democracy, tools to 'reduc[e] the time and expense of finding, understanding and documenting stories.'

Duke users can search the news through our subscription databases--selected ones below:
Tip: Look up titles of newspapers in e-journals to find online date coverage.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Evening news broadcasts from major U.S. networks, 1989 to present (full videos require a fee)

Internet Archive TV News
Search and view broadcasts from 2009 to present.

Blinkx
Video search engine for the free Web, includes a News category