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Yes, exceptions can be made to the 500 edit and and 6 month account age requirements. Your edit count is quite a bit short of 500, but you seem to have made good use of them. I suggest that you go ahead and apply for an account at the Newspapers.com project page. All the best, HazelAB ( talk) 17:10, 13 May 2016 (UTC) reply

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Naval Aviation Squadrons

Thanks for your work on updating the references for these. I originated a lot of them, with good references at the time, but then DANAS changed its setup and all the references went bad. I just didn't have the time or motivation to go back in and fix them, hoping that some heroic soul would take on that challenge. Good work! Or as they say in the Navy, Bravo Zulu. BTW, a list of the squadron articles I created is at User:Lou_Sander/Aircraft_Squadrons. Maybe it can be useful to you. Lou Sander ( talk) 23:22, 8 October 2016 (UTC) reply

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Cecil E. Harris

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Your GA nomination of Cecil E. Harris

The article Cecil E. Harris you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cecil E. Harris for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk) 14:41, 7 February 2017 (UTC) reply

The DYK hook game

Hello, Finktron,

Writing the hook for a DYK is a bit of a parlor trick. It can be fun, testing your ingenuity. The aim is to draw the reader in with a statement that hooks the reader's interest; the constraints are, you can't invent anything. It may take some rewriting sometimes.

Grab the most interesting factoid you can find about the subject. Embody it in a single sentence. Add the relevant cite immediately after the sentence. I find it works best if that sentence is the final one in a paragraph, so you may want to shuffle sentence order in the para in question to situate your factoid in front of the cite.

In the present case, a reviewer may ask you to point out "landlocked" in your sources--or they may not. They may ask why the cite in the lead, as such is used in the lead only in cases of controversy. Personally, I find this lead not particularly interesting, though not to the point of objecting.

However, to me the most interesting thing about Harris is that he shot down four enemy planes on four different occasions. You may want to try that for a hook.

To summarize:
1. Put your hook(s) in a single sentence each.
2. Make it/them the most interesting fact(s) in the article.
3. Let the cite follow naturally after the hook.
4. It is perfectly fair to mislead your reader, but not to cheat them with made-up or irrelevant facts.

Have fun! Georgejdorner ( talk) 17:44, 8 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Cecil E. Harris

Hi-I found a citation about a statue in honor of Cecil E. Harris on the Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. However, the word in the section about his education was confusing because the article had Northern State Teachers College which was of the initial names for Northern Michigan University. Confusing and not clear. My apologies for any problems. Hopeful, the citation about the state of Cecil E. Harris at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota is helpful. Thank you- RFD ( talk) 18:14, 8 February 2017 (UTC) reply

@ RFD: I appreciate that your edits were in good faith. I'm going to nix them just because I already have citations to his NSTC attendance after the next sentence, and an article about the statue on NSU campus already exists in the web cites for this article (cite [89] under Recognition section). Best, Finktron ( talk) 04:10, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply
Thank you- RFD ( talk) 13:05, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply

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DYK for Cecil E. Harris

On 24 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cecil E. Harris, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Cecil E. Harris, the U.S. Navy's second most successful World War II flying ace, was a school teacher from landlocked South Dakota? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cecil E. Harris. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Cecil E. Harris), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Hello, I dropped back by to see how you were doing with your DYK nom, to find you have made a terrific start. Because you pulled over 5,000 page views, I listed your DYK on the Statistics page, at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Statistics#February_2017. Good show! Georgejdorner ( talk) 16:50, 6 March 2017 (UTC) reply

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Article is now ready to move to mainspace. A couple of paras still need referencing, but not a serious deficiency. Mjroots ( talk) 20:57, 30 May 2017 (UTC) reply

@ Mjroots: Thanks! I moved it already, actually. Just lacking cites on those two paragraphs from the Cook book, but I'll try to snag page numbers next time I am at the library. I see the Talk page isn't actually made yet, though. It's still deleted from the PROD. Do you know how to reconstitute it, and if so how to add the article rating etc.? Thanks! Finktron ( talk) 21:40, 30 May 2017 (UTC) reply
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Formosa Air Battle


Hello, Finktron – I have completed the copy-edit you requested at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. I enjoyed reading the article; it was quite well written. Please let me know if you have any questions. I have a few questions on minor issues:

1) A few times, I changed a number such as "10" to the word for the number, "ten". I usually do that for numbers of one or two digits (except in a science or math article). However, I stopped changing the number to the word about half-way through the article, particularly for number of enemy planes shot down. I thought I'd ask you first what you thought.

2) I added "the" before a ship's name ("the Houston) when it was missing, but not when it said "USS Houston".

3) I made dashes consistent – all spaced en-dashes. You had some en-dashes and some em-dashes.

4) In the first paragraph in Formosa Air Battle#Background you introduce the Sho plan. In the third paragraph of that section you discuss Sho 1 and Sho 2. The first mentions of those are un-hyphenated, and I added a no-break space between Sho and the number so it wouldn't break between them at the end of a line (the number will stay with the word). Then, at the end of that paragraph, you have "Sho-2", with a hyphen between Sho and "2". I left it as it was, but I have to ask you which you prefer: hyphenated or un-hyphenated. These should be consistent.

5) I'm going to copy the second paragraph of Formosa Air Battle#Background here for ease of reference, highlighting a phrase in bold:

By 10 October Toyoda's tour of the front was complete. He intended to depart from Formosa for Japan that same day but was forced to change his plans. Surprise U.S. carrier strikes against the Ryukyu Islands cut off Toyoda's flight path home, grounding the admiral far from Combined Fleet headquarters at a decisive moment. Out of position and with inadequate lines of communication, the response to such overwhelming enemy air power was left to Toyoda's Chief of Staff, Admiral Ryūnosuke Kusaka.

I paused at the phrase "such overwhelming enemy air power". All I could see in the preceding sentences that could remotely be seen as "overwhelming air power" was "Surprise U.S. carrier strikes against the Ryukyu Islands". I don't see any indication that anything was overwhelming. I think you either need to provide details as to how the U.S. air power was overwhelming or change "the response to such overwhelming enemy air power" to "the response to these attacks (or strikes)".

6) I see you have used "U.S." as the abbreviation for "United States" throughout the article. I don't know if this abbreviation is standard throughout Wikipedia's military history articles, but generally, in most articles, the abbreviation is written without the periods/full stops: "US". If you're not sure, you might consult AustralianRupert.

7) I found most of the article quite well written and clear (and I know little about either World War II or air battles). In the third paragraph of the Formosa Air Battle#Aftermath, however, you lost me. I had to read it several times to figure out what this was about. I think it might help to add the adjective "Japanese" before "634th Naval Air Group" so the reader knows which side this is about. Those familiar with the names of battle groups and units will probably know that this was a Japanese air group, but the average Wikipedia reader might not. It might help, also, to give an indication of when the events in the second and third paragraphs happened. I know the third paragraph contains the phrase, "By January 1945", but the second and third paragraphs seem kind of lost in space and time when compared with all the other paragraphs. Adding to that impression are two phrases that mystify me: "Freshly constituted carrier units" and "land-based air power". For the non-expert, these don't mean much. (When I read "freshly constituted", I think of orange juice reconstituted from a frozen state, and I wonder how air power can be land-based.) Well, that's all.  –  Corinne ( talk) 02:46, 12 September 2017 (UTC) reply

 –  Corinne ( talk) 02:51, 12 September 2017 (UTC) reply

8) One more thing: when you want to use the initials of (or some kind of abbreviation for) an organization, agency, unit, etc., you're supposed to give the initials or abbreviation in parentheses after the first mention of the organization, agency, unit, etc. I don't see that for "TG" or "TF". I know that "TG" follows shortly upon the heels of several instances of "Task Group + number", so readers will probably figure it out. AustralianRupert can advise as to whether it is necessary to put "TG" in parentheses after the first mention of "Task Group", and, if so, where to put it; I thought it would look odd placed between "Task Group" and a number, so, if you do add it, I think it would have to be after the number. Also, check to be sure you have done that for all the other acronyms (mostly Japanese command groups).  –  Corinne ( talk) 03:13, 12 September 2017 (UTC) reply

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Operation Hailstone

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Yes, exceptions can be made to the 500 edit and and 6 month account age requirements. Your edit count is quite a bit short of 500, but you seem to have made good use of them. I suggest that you go ahead and apply for an account at the Newspapers.com project page. All the best, HazelAB ( talk) 17:10, 13 May 2016 (UTC) reply

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Thanks for your work on updating the references for these. I originated a lot of them, with good references at the time, but then DANAS changed its setup and all the references went bad. I just didn't have the time or motivation to go back in and fix them, hoping that some heroic soul would take on that challenge. Good work! Or as they say in the Navy, Bravo Zulu. BTW, a list of the squadron articles I created is at User:Lou_Sander/Aircraft_Squadrons. Maybe it can be useful to you. Lou Sander ( talk) 23:22, 8 October 2016 (UTC) reply

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Cecil E. Harris

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The article Cecil E. Harris you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cecil E. Harris for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk) 14:41, 7 February 2017 (UTC) reply

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Hello, Finktron,

Writing the hook for a DYK is a bit of a parlor trick. It can be fun, testing your ingenuity. The aim is to draw the reader in with a statement that hooks the reader's interest; the constraints are, you can't invent anything. It may take some rewriting sometimes.

Grab the most interesting factoid you can find about the subject. Embody it in a single sentence. Add the relevant cite immediately after the sentence. I find it works best if that sentence is the final one in a paragraph, so you may want to shuffle sentence order in the para in question to situate your factoid in front of the cite.

In the present case, a reviewer may ask you to point out "landlocked" in your sources--or they may not. They may ask why the cite in the lead, as such is used in the lead only in cases of controversy. Personally, I find this lead not particularly interesting, though not to the point of objecting.

However, to me the most interesting thing about Harris is that he shot down four enemy planes on four different occasions. You may want to try that for a hook.

To summarize:
1. Put your hook(s) in a single sentence each.
2. Make it/them the most interesting fact(s) in the article.
3. Let the cite follow naturally after the hook.
4. It is perfectly fair to mislead your reader, but not to cheat them with made-up or irrelevant facts.

Have fun! Georgejdorner ( talk) 17:44, 8 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Cecil E. Harris

Hi-I found a citation about a statue in honor of Cecil E. Harris on the Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. However, the word in the section about his education was confusing because the article had Northern State Teachers College which was of the initial names for Northern Michigan University. Confusing and not clear. My apologies for any problems. Hopeful, the citation about the state of Cecil E. Harris at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota is helpful. Thank you- RFD ( talk) 18:14, 8 February 2017 (UTC) reply

@ RFD: I appreciate that your edits were in good faith. I'm going to nix them just because I already have citations to his NSTC attendance after the next sentence, and an article about the statue on NSU campus already exists in the web cites for this article (cite [89] under Recognition section). Best, Finktron ( talk) 04:10, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply
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DYK for Cecil E. Harris

On 24 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cecil E. Harris, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Cecil E. Harris, the U.S. Navy's second most successful World War II flying ace, was a school teacher from landlocked South Dakota? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cecil E. Harris. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Cecil E. Harris), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Hello, I dropped back by to see how you were doing with your DYK nom, to find you have made a terrific start. Because you pulled over 5,000 page views, I listed your DYK on the Statistics page, at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Statistics#February_2017. Good show! Georgejdorner ( talk) 16:50, 6 March 2017 (UTC) reply

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Article is now ready to move to mainspace. A couple of paras still need referencing, but not a serious deficiency. Mjroots ( talk) 20:57, 30 May 2017 (UTC) reply

@ Mjroots: Thanks! I moved it already, actually. Just lacking cites on those two paragraphs from the Cook book, but I'll try to snag page numbers next time I am at the library. I see the Talk page isn't actually made yet, though. It's still deleted from the PROD. Do you know how to reconstitute it, and if so how to add the article rating etc.? Thanks! Finktron ( talk) 21:40, 30 May 2017 (UTC) reply
WPs added and assessed. Mjroots ( talk) 22:04, 30 May 2017 (UTC) reply

Formosa Air Battle


Hello, Finktron – I have completed the copy-edit you requested at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. I enjoyed reading the article; it was quite well written. Please let me know if you have any questions. I have a few questions on minor issues:

1) A few times, I changed a number such as "10" to the word for the number, "ten". I usually do that for numbers of one or two digits (except in a science or math article). However, I stopped changing the number to the word about half-way through the article, particularly for number of enemy planes shot down. I thought I'd ask you first what you thought.

2) I added "the" before a ship's name ("the Houston) when it was missing, but not when it said "USS Houston".

3) I made dashes consistent – all spaced en-dashes. You had some en-dashes and some em-dashes.

4) In the first paragraph in Formosa Air Battle#Background you introduce the Sho plan. In the third paragraph of that section you discuss Sho 1 and Sho 2. The first mentions of those are un-hyphenated, and I added a no-break space between Sho and the number so it wouldn't break between them at the end of a line (the number will stay with the word). Then, at the end of that paragraph, you have "Sho-2", with a hyphen between Sho and "2". I left it as it was, but I have to ask you which you prefer: hyphenated or un-hyphenated. These should be consistent.

5) I'm going to copy the second paragraph of Formosa Air Battle#Background here for ease of reference, highlighting a phrase in bold:

By 10 October Toyoda's tour of the front was complete. He intended to depart from Formosa for Japan that same day but was forced to change his plans. Surprise U.S. carrier strikes against the Ryukyu Islands cut off Toyoda's flight path home, grounding the admiral far from Combined Fleet headquarters at a decisive moment. Out of position and with inadequate lines of communication, the response to such overwhelming enemy air power was left to Toyoda's Chief of Staff, Admiral Ryūnosuke Kusaka.

I paused at the phrase "such overwhelming enemy air power". All I could see in the preceding sentences that could remotely be seen as "overwhelming air power" was "Surprise U.S. carrier strikes against the Ryukyu Islands". I don't see any indication that anything was overwhelming. I think you either need to provide details as to how the U.S. air power was overwhelming or change "the response to such overwhelming enemy air power" to "the response to these attacks (or strikes)".

6) I see you have used "U.S." as the abbreviation for "United States" throughout the article. I don't know if this abbreviation is standard throughout Wikipedia's military history articles, but generally, in most articles, the abbreviation is written without the periods/full stops: "US". If you're not sure, you might consult AustralianRupert.

7) I found most of the article quite well written and clear (and I know little about either World War II or air battles). In the third paragraph of the Formosa Air Battle#Aftermath, however, you lost me. I had to read it several times to figure out what this was about. I think it might help to add the adjective "Japanese" before "634th Naval Air Group" so the reader knows which side this is about. Those familiar with the names of battle groups and units will probably know that this was a Japanese air group, but the average Wikipedia reader might not. It might help, also, to give an indication of when the events in the second and third paragraphs happened. I know the third paragraph contains the phrase, "By January 1945", but the second and third paragraphs seem kind of lost in space and time when compared with all the other paragraphs. Adding to that impression are two phrases that mystify me: "Freshly constituted carrier units" and "land-based air power". For the non-expert, these don't mean much. (When I read "freshly constituted", I think of orange juice reconstituted from a frozen state, and I wonder how air power can be land-based.) Well, that's all.  –  Corinne ( talk) 02:46, 12 September 2017 (UTC) reply

 –  Corinne ( talk) 02:51, 12 September 2017 (UTC) reply

8) One more thing: when you want to use the initials of (or some kind of abbreviation for) an organization, agency, unit, etc., you're supposed to give the initials or abbreviation in parentheses after the first mention of the organization, agency, unit, etc. I don't see that for "TG" or "TF". I know that "TG" follows shortly upon the heels of several instances of "Task Group + number", so readers will probably figure it out. AustralianRupert can advise as to whether it is necessary to put "TG" in parentheses after the first mention of "Task Group", and, if so, where to put it; I thought it would look odd placed between "Task Group" and a number, so, if you do add it, I think it would have to be after the number. Also, check to be sure you have done that for all the other acronyms (mostly Japanese command groups).  –  Corinne ( talk) 03:13, 12 September 2017 (UTC) reply

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Operation Hailstone

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Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019

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Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019

  • Wikimania
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Books & Bytes – Issue 36

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Issue 36, September – October 2019

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Books & Bytes – Issue 37

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Issue 37, November – December 2019

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020

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Issue 39, May – June 2020

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Books & Bytes – Issue 40

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Issue 40, July – August 2020

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Books & Bytes – Issue 40

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Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020

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    • Ancestry
    • RILM
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Books & Bytes – Issue 41

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Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

  • New partnership: Taxmann
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Books & Bytes - Issue 42

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Issue 42, November – December 2020

  • New EBSCO collections now available
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Books & Bytes – Issue 42

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Issue 42, January – February 2021

  • New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
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Books & Bytes – Issue 43

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Issue 43, March – April 2021

  • New Library Card designs
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Books & Bytes – Issue 45

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Books & Bytes
Issue 45, May – June 2021

  • Library design improvements continue
  • New partnerships
  • 1Lib1Ref update

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Books & Bytes – Issue 46

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Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

  • Library design improvements deployed
  • New collections available in English and German
  • Wikimania presentation

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Books & Bytes – Issue 47

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Books & Bytes
Issue 47, September – October 2021

  • On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
  • Search tool deployed
  • New My Library design improvements

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Books & Bytes – Issue 48

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Books & Bytes
Issue 48, November – December 2021

  • 1Lib1Ref 2022
  • Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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Books & Bytes – Issue 49

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Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022

  • New library collections
  • Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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Books & Bytes – Issue 50

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Issue 50, March – April 2022

  • New library partner - SPIE
  • 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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Books & Bytes – Issue 51

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Books & Bytes
Issue 51, May – June 2022

  • New library partners
    • SAGE Journals
    • Elsevier ScienceDirect
    • University of Chicago Press
    • Information Processing Society of Japan
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  • 1Lib1Ref May 2022

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Books & Bytes – Issue 52

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Books & Bytes
Issue 52, July – August 2022

  • New instant-access collections:
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    • Project MUSE
    • Taylor & Francis
    • ASHA
    • Loeb
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Books & Bytes – Issue 53

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Issue 53, September – October 2022

  • New collections:
    • Edward Elgar
    • E-Yearbook
    • Corriere della Serra
    • Wikilala
  • Collections moved to Library Bundle:
    • Ancestry
  • New feature: Outage notification
  • Spotlight: Collections indexed in EDS

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Books & Bytes – Issue 54

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

  • New collections:
    • British Newspaper Archive
    • Findmypast
    • University of Michigan Press
    • ACLS
    • Duke University Press
  • 1Lib1Ref 2023
  • Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023

  • New bundle partners:
    • Newspapers.com
    • Fold3
  • 1Lib1Ref January report
  • Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023

  • New partner:
    • Perlego
  • Library access tips and tricks
  • Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023

  • Suggestion improvements
  • Favorite collections tips
  • Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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Books & Bytes – Issue 58

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 58, July – August 2023

  • New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
  • Tech tip: Filters
  • Wikimania presentation

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Books & Bytes – Issue 59

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 59, September – October 2023

  • Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
  • Tech tip: Library access methods

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Books & Bytes – Issue 60

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023

  • Three new partners
  • Google Scholar integration
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Books & Bytes – Issue 61

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 61, January – February 2024

  • Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
  • 1Lib1Ref results

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Books & Bytes – Issue 62

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 62, March – April 2024

  • IEEE and Haaretz now available
  • Let's Connect Clinics about The Wikipedia Library
  • Spotlight and Wikipedia Library tips

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