Collection 35: Articles classified as being about the humanities or the sciences from U.S. student newspapers, c. 1998-2018

A collection of word-frequency and other data representing 10,737 unique articles (no duplicate or close-variant documents) classified as being about the humanities or science published from 1998-2018 in 491 U.S. student newspapers. Using supervised classification models, 2,609 articles in the collection have been classified as being about the humanities (24.3% of total articles), and 8,128 articles in the collection have been classified as being about science (75.7% of total articles). WE1S and other researchers use this data to look for broad patterns and to help guide closer study.

News sources in Collection 33 include 491 U.S. campus newspapers, among which the top 15 sources in the collection are: The Stanford Daily (Stanford University), The California Aggie (UC Davis), The Daily Californian (UC Berkeley), The Daily Bruin (UC Los Angeles), The Kaleidoscope (U Alabama Birmingham), The Tartan (Carnegie Mellon), Michigan Independent (UM Ann Arbor), The Daily Princetonian (Princeton), The Harvard Crimson (Harvard), The Dartmouth (Dartmouth), Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell), Colorado Daily (U Colorado Boulder), The Daily Texan (UT Austin), The Daily Cardinal (UW Madison), Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University).

Kinds of Sources (by Tags)

Sources in Collection 33 are associated with the following non-exclusive metadata categories, which describe the kinds of sources in the collection. Categories are listed in order from those associated with the most documents to those associated with the least: education/institution/Doctoral, education/funding/US public college, education/funding/US private college, region/US/North East, region/US/West Coast, region/US/Midwest, region/US/South, education/institution/Liberal Arts, education/demographic/Hispanic-serving Institution, education/affiliation/UC system, education/affiliation/Ivy League, region/US/Rockies and Southwest, education/emphasis/Science Tech and Ag school, education/demographic/religion/Catholic, education/affiliation/Cal State system, education/demographic/religion/Christian, education/institution/Community College, education/demographic/Historically Black Colleges and Universities, education/non-US college, region/Europe, education/demographic/religion/Latter-day Saints, region/US/non-contiguous, education/demographic/religion/Jewish, education/demographic/Womens College, education/, media/website, identity/race ethnicity and cultural heritage, region/Canada. Sources are assigned to categories based solely on explicit publication information and/or self-identification.

Suggested Citation

WE1S Project, (Articles classified as being about the humanities or the sciences from U.S. student newspapers), 2020, doi:[TBD].


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