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English Corpora
If you already have an individual Boston College account with English Corpora, then go to the site and login.
In order to continue accessing English Corpora users need to authenticate through the Boston College link at least once every 365 days.
First time users need to Register / create profile.
- Register with your email address and a new password, and then login with your new account.
- Enter Institution (exactly as written):
Boston College, then click Update. - Click here to enter into the Corpus interface, and click the person icon at the top right corner of the screen to view your profile.
- If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in to the Boston College authentication system.
You will then be recognized by the database as using the academic license and should see the following message: 'Thank you for your contribution to support the English Corpora'. If you are correctly authenticated the person icon at the top right corner of the screen should be green.
Because you are using the academic license, this means that you won't be blocked by the normal limits (250 queries per day per university) and you won't see the messages that would otherwise appear every 10-15 queries (which ask you to contribute to the corpora). Your individual queries will be stored under your own account, so that you can re-use and share them with others. You only need to register and add the group password one time.