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Computer-assisted text analysis is an extremely valuable tool for identifying trends in news coverage, political texts, and other documents. Unfortunately, the tools available to conduct text analysis are still quite limited.

Since July, a data-hungry user has downloaded from Factiva over 5 million articles, an amount so excessive that it jeopardized the University’s contract with the popular online research service. Yesterday, library administrators at Harvard Business School (HBS) blocked the conspicuous Harvard-network IP address from accessing Factiva and notified the suspected offender of the infringements.