Newsela Corpus Access for Researchers
Newsela provides a collection of leveled articles for researchers studying text simplification and other related areas.
Last Updated: September 2025
How to Request Access:
- Fill out this form.
Important: Currently, we only grant access to academically-affiliated researchers whose projects are likely to lead to a publication.
- The Newsela Research team will respond with a decision within two weeks of your submission.
- If your project meets our requirements, you'll be asked to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to ensure proper use of the corpus.
- Once the NDA has been signed by both parties, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access the corpus.
How to Cite the Corpus:
Newsela, Inc. (2016). Newsela Article Corpus. [Data set] https://newsela.com/legal/data