You may be aware that at the moment we are not authorised to make copies of the
British National Corpus for use outside the EU. This is because the BNC is the
product of a consortium involving both industrial and academic partners and we
can only act where consensus has been reached by all partners. Consensus has
not yet been reached on the matter of extending access of the corpus beyond the
EU.
However, we are having a meeting to discuss this issue in mid March (the exact
date is still to be decided), and we (at Oxford University) are trying to
gather together as many pieces of evidence to suggest that there is a wider
need for the BNC as we can. If you think that access to the BNC should be
widened, we would be very grateful if you could write to us and outline the
reasons why you believe this is important.
We hope that by presenting a collection of such emails or letters we may be
able to persuade the commercial members of the consortium to widen access to
the Corpus. The more reasonable argument we can muster, the stronger we can
make our case.
Best wishes,
Claire
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Dr Claire Warwick phone 01865 273280
Resource Development Officer Fax 01865 273275
British National Corpus
Oxford University Computing Services email BNC: natcorp@oucs.ox.ac.uk
13 Banbury Road claire.warwick@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Oxford OX2 6NN http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc
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