This page serves as the home page for the WE1S source research project, which researches databases and other resources for expanding the WE1S corpus of materials. (Last revised 7/4/17)

I. Relevant Excerpt from WE1S Grant Proposal:

[From grant proposal]: WE1S plans to devote research at the beginning of its timeline to determine which specific sources to target in these areas that will be most representative and useful for the project's goals. While the criteria for representativeness and usefulness will evolve iteratively as the project team begins its research on potential sources.... [Go to full statement on corpus expansion plans]

II. Priority Sources to Research (incomplete list)

• LexisNexis Academic
• ProQuest -- including:
• News and Newspapers
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• ProQuest's ethnic, race, and gender news databases:
• ProQuest Ethnic Newswatch
• ProQuest GenderWatch
• NewsBank
• EBSCO Host Newspaper Source

II. Other Sources to Research

III. Data Sheet for WE1S Sources

• Data Sheet for WE1S Sources
• RA to work with Lindsay and Alan on evolving the metadata organization of the data sheet?
• Future delegation to RAs of particular sources to research