Oxford Text Archive (OTA) is an archive of electronic texts and other literary and language resources which have been created, collected and distributed for the purpose of research into literary and linguistic topics at the University of Oxford, England.
It is thought to be one of the first archives of digital academic textual resources to collect and distribute materials from other research centres.
[3] In November 2021, the Bodleian Libraries posted an announcement stating that further deposits were no longer being accepted until further notice.
From 2022, the OTA collections have been available from the Literary and Linguistic Data Service repository, which continues to develop the collections with new acquisitions, and is part of the national and European research infrastructure, as a CLARIN centre and a trusted repository in the AHRC-funded Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities Programme.
The OTA collection contains many scholarly documents marked up according to the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative,[5] including copies of all of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Books Online (EEBO) texts which are now in the public domain, linked data.