Note: this page is designed to help the users of the academic license that your
university has purchased. It assumes that the administrator for the account has
already spent a minute or so to set things up and has chosen a password for the
users from your university. This page discusses what you need to do as a user of
the corpus to have access to the group account, and you only need to do this
once.
1. Log in to a
corpus (e.g. COCA or iWeb) with your individual
email and password. Even though you will be using the "group account", there
still needs to be a way to track who has done individual queries, so that you
can link to and re-do past queries (using "history", after logging in). After
logging in to a corpus (ANY of the corpora) with your individual account, you will see something similar to the
following in the "Overview" tab (the rightmost tab in the corpus interface).
(Note that you can also access that page at any point by clicking on the
"person" icon in the upper right-hand corner of the corpus interface.)
2. If you haven't yet selected your
university, do so via:
Institution |
SELECT
UNIVERSITY |
3. Once you have selected your
university, you will then see the following, where the name of your university,
as well as the city and country of the university will be displayed in the
green field.
Institution |
Your University (City, Country) |
4. Simply
enter the group password
and click "Submit".
Contact the administrator for the license if you don't know what it is.
Please note that the password has to be exactly the same -- even case sensitivity (e.g.
ourPassword vs OurPassword vs ourpassword).
Once you have done steps #1 through #4 (and
remember that you only have to do this once), you will then be using the
academic license. You can make sure that you really are using the license,
because you will see the following message after logging in:
Institution |
Your University (City, Country) |
Status /
license |
You are logged in (via your IP address) as part of the academic
license for your university, which will expire on [expiration date] |
Because you are using the academic license, this means that you won't be blocked by the normal limits (250 queries per day
per university) and you won't see the messages that would otherwise appear every 10-15 queries
(which ask you to contribute to the corpora).
But again, your individual queries will be stored under your own account, so that
you
can re-use and share them with others. And again, you only need to do #1 - #4
one time.
|