English-Corpora.org



The Terms of Use for the academic licenses are very short and very minimalistic. This is because we've been doing academic licenses for several years now, and really haven't had any problems with abuse.

When you obtain an academic license for your university, you agree that the users will not:

1. Set up multiple "ghost" or "bot" accounts, which are actually for the same user.

2. Run automated queries on the corpora (i.e. a program that runs unattended, to scrape large amounts of corpus data).

(See an example of where both conditions have been violated, and where the account was terminated)

By the way, if you do need large amounts of offline data, you might want to just get that from the word frequency, collocates, n-grams, or especially the full-text data.