Research Guides: Research Data Services: Application, About ProQuest TDM Studio, and Best Practices

Application

Application to use Proquest TDM Studio Dartmouth Libraries
This application provides the formal way for requesting the use of a ProQuest TDM (Textual Data Mining) Workbench through Dartmouth Library. ProQuest TDM provides users access to the raw full-text files from the ProQuest databases to which Dartmouth Library subscribes, as well as the tools for analyzing that data. Content includes everything from Ph.D. dissertations to scholarly journal articles to current and historical issues of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post.

About ProQuest TDM Studio

- Up to five members of a Research Team (the Team) can use ProQuest TDM at any one time.
- The Team can use up to five Workbenches.
- A maximum of 10 corpuses (datasets) can be created for each Workbench, with up to 2 million documents per corpus (dataset).
- Content cannot be downloaded and can only be used within ProQuest TDM.
- Though content cannot be downloaded, scripts created by the Team and analysis results can be downloaded from ProQuest TDM.
- The Team's files will be deleted from the Workbenches at the end of the Team's TDM time.
- The Team is responsible for following and abiding by the ProQuest TDM terms of use.

Best Practices

- At least one person on the Team should be a Dartmouth faculty member, post-doc, or graduate student.
- At least one person on the Team should be familiar with R and/or Python.
- One person from the Library or Dartmouth ITC will act as a liaison for the Team with ProQuest.
- Because the Team's files will be deleted from the Workbenches at the end of their TDM time, it is critical that the Team observe good data management practices and preserve their downloaded files locally. The Team should be sure to also retain the search strings used to retrieve content so that the searches can be re-run at a later time if necessary.