CIS News: June 2006

Women Writers Online

A new version of Women Writers Online has been released:
http://textbase.wwp.brown.edu/WWO/index.html.

The new version is published using Philologic, a new, fast, open-source XML publication system built at the University of Chicago (http://philologic.uchicago.edu). It offers WWO users a number of excellent features for exploring the WWO collection, including:

--detailed word frequency statistics
--context-sensitive searching
--sequential search refinement
--searching on similar words
--keyword-in-context display
--word in clause position
--collocation analysis
--detailed results bibliography

Women Writers Online serves an international community of universities, colleges, and research libraries totalling over 230 institutional subscribers. The collection covers hundreds of texts by women authors from 1450-1850.