The following databases have restricted access. Please contact us at textual.optics.lab@gmail.com if you have would like to request access to these resources.
- The English Language Collection: over 41,000 texts dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries.
- The English Language Drama Collection: over 5,000 texts dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries.
- Bibles in English: 21 English language translations of the Bible
- The English Poetry Collection: over 6,800 works of poetry from 1505 to 2009.
- Shanghai Library Republican Journal corpus: restricted to University of Chicago campus.
- History of Black Writing Novel corpus: 1146 novels by African-American authors. Due to copyright issues, which we are working to resolve, access to the full collection is currently restricted. See our public build for access to out-of-copyright texts.
- US Novel corpus: 9,000 novels of contemporary American fiction spanning the period 1880-2000. Due to copyright issues, which we are working to resolve, access to the full collection is currently restricted. See our public build for access to out-of-copyright texts.
- The American Archives collection: over 28,000 texts from the Early American period.
- The Black Drama collection: over 1,200 plays from the mid 19th century to modern times.
- The Black Writing and Thought collection: over 22,000 works from the early 1700s to modern times.