LibGuides: ECON 3063: Narrative Economics: Textual Data Sources

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Factiva
Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including Wall Street Journal, local newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Provides company information including market data and competitors.
Nexis Uni
An interdisciplinary, full-text database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works.
ProQuest News & Newspapers
Contains news reports, editorials, and, with ProQuest Historical and Recent Newspapers, advertisements, stock tables, cartoons, and more. More than 3,000 of the world's news sources, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian & Observer, The Globe and Mail, The Times of India, and many more are open to discovery.

Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb)
The SDDb is a digital archive and search engine developed to promote the scientific study of dreams. The SDDb holds a collection of more than 20,000 dream reports from a variety of sources, including personal diaries, opinion surveys, cultural texts, and psychological experiments. It is a free, open access resource for empirical research using simple yet powerful and highly flexible tools of analysis.
DreamBank
The DreamBank is a collection of over 20,000 dream reports. The reports come from a variety of different sources and research studies — but NOT from dream-collecting Web sites — from people ages 7 to 74, and they can be analyzed using the search engine and statistical programs built into this site.

Replication Data for: 'Folklore'
From Data is Plural: "Folklore motifs. Decades ago, anthropologist Yuri Berezkin began systematically assembling what would later become the Electronic Analytical Catalogue of Folklore and Mythological Motifs, which identifies thousands of recurring narrative elements and their presence within nearly 1,000 societies’ stories. In a paper published last year, Stelios Michalopoulos and Melanie Meng Xue describe the resource, analyze it, and share a database snapshot from October 2019."

WikiPlots
The WikiPlots corpus is a collection of 112,936 story plots extracted from English language Wikipedia. These stories are extracted from any English language article that contains a sub-header that contains the word "plot" (e.g., "Plot", "Plot Summary", etc.).
This repository contains code and instructions for how to recreate the WikiPlots corpus.