Access

ARCHER can only be accessed, whether on-site at the consortium universities or online, under the conditions laid out in the user agreement. On receipt of a signed User Agreement it is available both for in-house use at the consortium universities and for online. Please read the paragraphs below for more information on the User Agreement, copyright restrictions, consortium departments, and online access.

User agreement

• In order to use ARCHER, whether locally at a consortium university or online via the internet, you must complete and submit the User Agreement available on the ARCHER website. This comes in three parts. You must print, read and sign the whole agreement, keeping the hard copy for reference. The single page of Part 2 (for an individual) or Part 3 (an instructor on behalf of a class) must be scanned and uploaded on the web form (see details on the ARCHER website).

• For online use, users must create an account on the Lancaster CQPweb server (https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/); if you have one already you can use the same username/password. This applies both to individual researchers and students in a class. See further details on our website.
• Users’ username and password are strictly for that user alone and not to be shared with others.

• In due course there will also be login information for the online version hosted at the University of Zurich.

• Users at a consortium department should check on local arrangements for access.
• Users shall notify the current project coordinators (archer@manchester.ac.uk) of projects or publications that make use of ARCHER in any of its versions.

Copyright

• ARCHER contains copyright material made available on the understanding that the rights of the copyright holders will not be infringed. All users have to sign a User Agreement in hard copy.

• ARCHER shall be used only for non-profit research and for no other purpose whatsoever.

• The material drawn from ARCHER, whether printed, in electronic, or any other form, is intended for the said registered user only and may not be distributed, or transferred to a third party.

• Apart from the data (examples) drawn from the corpus, the ARCHER corpus files may not be reproduced in part or in whole in any format whatsoever, including, but not limited to, electronic disk copies, network copies, or paper copies. In particular, users should be aware that ARCHER corpus files may not be lodged in any publicly accessible or open access repository. The ‘data (examples)’ herein refers to the extracts of text illustrative of the research question studied, drawn from the corpus files.

• Copyright in individual texts cited resides with the original IPR holders. The full list is as follows:
• The British Library, Burney Collection
• Chetham's Library, Manchester
• Gale Digital Collections, for the Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Gale Digital Collections, for The Making of the Modern World
• The John Rylands University Library, Manchester
• JUSTIS Publishing
• The Methodist Church, Manchester
• ProQuest Database
• The Times Digital Archive

Access at consortium universities

The current consortium universities are (by country): Helsinki (Finland); Bamberg, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Trier (Germany); Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Uppsala (Sweden); Zurich (Switzerland); Lancaster, Leicester, Manchester (UK); Michigan; Northern Arizona, Southern California (USA).

Users should check on local arrangements for access at the consortium departments, see here for contact details.

Online access and limitations

• ARCHER contains copyright material made available on the understanding that the rights of the copyright holders will not be infringed. For the first time ARCHER 3.2 makes the corpus available online via the internet.

• A first online version of the corpus will be managed by UCREL Lancaster University, and a second online version will be managed by the University of Zurich, both on behalf of the ARCHER Consortium. All rights in the texts cited are reserved.

• For copyright reasons the search engines must limit the amount of context that can be viewed and downloaded: approximately 30 words Left and Right. The limits are more than adequate for most linguistic purposes. If for any reason more context is needed, a user must arrange to visit a consortium department, as previously.