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South African Government Gazette, Greengazette, http://www.greengazette.co.za/, Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa Nathan121212 ( talk) 16:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE journals , magazines and conference proceedings http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp
More than 2000 ebooks and enormous number of articles are available IEEE here. Almost the best source in Electrical engineering.-- Freshman404 Talk 12:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Genealogybank.com - I think this would be hugely helpful for editors involved in local research for things like country estates and small rural communities and to trace ownership and family lines.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:49, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
The Times archives.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:50, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Excellent, got there eventually ;-). Hope you're well!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:41, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
The Irish Newspaper Archives , "The largest digital archive of Irish newspapers in the world, providing access to millions of newspaper articles spanning 300+ years of Irish history."♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:52, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Toronto Star Archives -millions of newspapers from 1887-2010
Access to Research This covers over 8000 journals and over 10 million academic articles. In the UK its available for access in libraries but not home-reading. Apwoolrich ( talk) 15:57, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Wiley Online Library: 2,000+ journals, more than 16,000+ books—good academic content. – Maky « talk » 09:01, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
@ Astinson (WMF): is Wiley Online Library available in Wikipedia Library already? Would be very helpful. Samat ( talk) 01:51, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Westlaw and Lexis databases for U.S. court decisions. Huge area of low-hanging fruit for improving our articles on federally reported cases; huge collab opportunity with law schools, hugely important subject matter when knowledge of the law = justice, but said knowledge is locked behind a paywall. ⇒ SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 01:51, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
2600:1003:B004:C864:0:9:8E97:3201 ( talk) 16:44, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
LexisNexis is best known for its law databases, but they have great access to newspapers in the LexisNexis Academic database, including papers from the US (national, regional, and local), Canada, and Britain. I fill a good number of WP:RX requests with papers from this database. ~ Rob13 Talk 17:52, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
The New England Journal of Medicine, Massachusetts Medical Society, http://www.nejm.org, contributors on medical stuff. One of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Bloubéri ( talk) 11:52, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Regarded as the newspaper of record in the United States. Pre-1923 material is up for free download as pdfs, but material 1/1/23 onward is paywalled. Carrite ( talk) 19:30, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
@ Carrite and Diannaa: NYT appears to be indexed from 1985 to present at Infotrac. Nikkimaria ( talk) 22:56, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Some of its content is available through search engines, but after a certain number in a month access is denied without a subscription. As one of the United States' newspapers of record, its back issues are a valuable resource. Eddie Blick ( talk) 21:28, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
@ Teblick: NYT appears to be available from 1985 to present via Infotrac. Nikkimaria ( talk) 22:57, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
This is just a follow-up "Thank you!" for providing access to NYT archives via ProQuest. I have used the service often to add information to articles, and I greatly appreciate the efforts of those who are responsible enabling access to the archives. Eddie Blick ( talk) 23:59, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Can we have a news aggregator like Factiva ? 90.10.171.105 ( talk) 12:07, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) publishes a wide range of documents, some of which are freely available and some of which are only available to ITU members. It would be good if Wikipedia editors had access to the full range of ITU publications. Examples of or lists of ITU publications for which access would be useful:
Covering print books published in England between 1473 and 1700, this database shows and allows searching of full scans of original English books: good for tracking down what happened, say, in a first edition of Milton. Covers literature, yes, but also history, religion, politics, philosophy, and many other areas. Link: [1] -- Akhenaten0 ( talk) 19:30, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
With Reaxys you can search Beilstein (Organic), Gmelin (Inorganic and organometallic) and Patent Chemistry databases. Reaxys' search, analysis, and workflow tools are designed around the needs and common tasks of users, including a synthesis planner to design the optimum synthesis route and multistep reactions to identify precursor reactions underlying synthesis of target compounds. Users can filter search results by key properties, synthesis yield, or other ranking criteria. Would be very useful for chemistry articles! Link: [2] Thepcmaniac ( talk) 12:20, 10 May 2015 (EEST)
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Lots of publications especially about humanities and theology/religion studies, but also about philosophy and history; most ebooks and journals are in German but there are also several publications in English. Continua Evoluzione ( talk) 13:31, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
I urge we get access to this http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Oxford students get passwords issued by their colleges. The ability to access digitised texts available there would be very useful. Apwoolrich ( talk) 13:37, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Just dropping a note here to keep the request alive. Access to the Bodleian and Ashmolean collections would still be very useful on many literature-related subjects. These holdings are, of course, primary source material, so it would typically be for scans of title pages of works to illustrate an article on that work or its author, or to check stuff like formats, page counts, printers/publishers, and so forth. Or for a scan-backed transcription onto Wikisource. I'm sure there are other uses, but this is what I usually want it for. (and, no, visiting scholar would probably not be an option for me, though I'm sure for others it might be a better option). -- Xover ( talk) 08:38, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
The essential research tool for scholars in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences, with new content added every month. http://cognet.mit.edu/
The World Shakespeare Bibliography from the Folger Shakespeare Library would be an indispensable tool for finding sources for Shakespeare-related articles. While slightly narrow in scope, there are currently in excess of 1000 articles in the scope of WikiProject Shakespeare, and there is significant overlap into other fields such as history, theatre, film, music (anything that could conceivably be influenced by Shakespeare has been, at one point or another). -- Xover ( talk) 12:04, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Edited by: George Ritzer, eISBN: 9781405124331, Print publication date: 2007, DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com
If anyone knows how I could access this, let me know. It would be quite useful for my planned articles on sociology, and presumably, a useful tool for the entire Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:22, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I have made numerous contributions to Wikipedia from having NewsBank access to newspaper articles from the past several decades at one college library whose librarians thought the students would use it a lot. The resource was too expensive. I am very limited now since the nearest library where I can use it is a few miles farther away. — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:16, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
The historical archives of the Danish newspapers Politiken and Ekstra Bladet: http://www.e-pages.dk/polarkivdemo/1/ and http://www.e-pages.dk/ebarkivdemo/1/ would be really nice to have free access to for especially the Denmark related articles. Froztbyte ( talk) 20:01, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
As is true with the New York Times, some content is available through search engines, but after hitting a limit, availability ceases. It has much valuable material for those of us who write and edit articles about people and events in the United States in the 20th century. Eddie Blick ( talk) 21:31, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Is a Dutch magazine for the shipping, fishing and off shore industries. I plan to contact hem myself, with the help of WMF-nl. One question: at Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Publishers, the section How it works: "Throughout the process we send you quarterly reports about the number of links to your content on Wikipedia and how that changes over time." Can and should I do that myself, and if yes: how? The publisher is here, some 25 more magazines, but all in Dutch. Regards, Sander1453 ( talk) 09:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I was going through the RX and found a few requested resources that could be found here. This publishing house has "books (print and electronic) and journals and series in the Earth and environmental sciences (geology, mineralogy, paleontology), biosciences (plant sciences, zoology, phycology), aquatic ecology and human biology." This would be helpful for the RX in locating science articles -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:32, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Journal of Contemporary Social Services, http://familiesinsocietyjournal.org/, It would be useful to me in researching evidence based social programs Sultec ( talk)
I stumbled upon this site while helping out at the RX. This is another publisher that has access to journal articles and books. Here's the link. This site focuses primarily on humanities subjects -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:16, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
I know that the Wikipedia Library has access to SAGE Stats, but not to the full Sage journals website. It would be helpful locating journal articles. They have journals on Health sciences, life & biomedical sciences, materials sciences and engineering and social sciences & humanities. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 22:18, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Routledge is described on its website as "the world's leading academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences." As such, it has publications that would be of value not only in my primary area of interest ( old-time radio), but in a wide variety of other fields, which should be useful to many Wikipedia editors. As I write this message, the website lists 58 categories in which it publishes material. Routledge is a member of the Taylor & Francis group, which makes some of its material available to Wikipedia editors. I found out today, however, that the current agreement with Taylor & Francis applies only to databases -- not to books. I have found samples of Routledge publications on Google books and used material from those, but of course they provide only a limited number of pages of each book. Eddie Blick ( talk) 13:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
The BUFVC is "a representative body which promotes the production, study and use of moving image, sound and related media in higher education, further education and research". Its services include a number of databases. It also runs Box of Broadcasts (BoB), an online archive of radio and television programmes, including all BBC TV and radio content dating from 2007 (800,000+ programmes) over 10 foreign language channels, including French, German and Italian.
There is a Derby University case study on the use of BoB.
For example, access to this BUFVC recording would enable me to improve Denis Martin and related articles.
It is possible that access may have to be limited to Wikimedians in the UK. We may need negotiate to obtain an ERA licence, first.
As I am in the UK, I would be willing to assist in reaching out to BUFVC, or ERA, or to act as a local point of contact. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:02, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
BearManor Media publishes a fairly extensive list of books related to film, television, radio and the people involved in them, focusing more on history than on the present day. Most of my creating and editing of Wikipedia articles involves those areas, and I see a number of titles on the company's website that would be useful. I would appreciate someone's investigating whether Wikipedia might establish an arrangement with BearManor like the one it already has with McFarland. Eddie Blick ( talk) 02:31, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
AccessEngineering provides access to McGraw-Hill reference publications. It covers 14 major areas of engineering. It would be a valuable asset for developing engineering concepts on Wikipedias, that are not really included in traditional academic databases which focus more on research, and books that are not available in your local library. Amqui ( talk) 15:37, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
It would be great to have access to additional Elsevier content alongside the great range of ScienceDirect journals and books. Information technology journals, such as the Journal of Information Security and Applications, would be highly useful in WikiProject Computer Security work. Thanks! Seba5tien ( talk/ contribs) 16:55, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
http://gdc.gale.com/gale-literature-collections/literature-resource-center/
Access to many biographical sources and other journals that aren't included in our other current packages. I'd love to see this added to our Gale partnership. czar 15:13, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
" Oxford Scholarly Editions" contains things like (my area of interest) the complete set of critical editions of the plays and poems from The Oxford Shakespeare, and all manner of other scholarly editions in many fields. In addition, Oxford University Press has recently announced " The New Oxford Shakespeare" a fully digitally integrated new complete edition of The Oxford Shakespeare. How the content of the one will relate to the other is not clear (maybe the new editions will replace the extant ones on Oxford Scholarly Editions?), but access to either or, preferably, both these services would be wonderfully useful.
PS. Pinging Samwalton9 (WMF) since he's the one that most recently seemed to be talking to OUP (cf. the Bloomsbury thread above). -- Xover ( talk) 09:59, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
@ Samwalton9 (WMF): Any news on Oxford Schoarly Editions and The New Oxford Shakespeare? -- Xover ( talk) 08:14, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
The US national archives. Holds an enormous number of documents, etc, certainly in the millions. Currently I need about 40 documents from it, for research. scope_creep ( talk) 16:40, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
I came across this publisher while attempting to find a source in the Resource Exchange. This publisher offers over 50 journals that could be beneficial to Wikipeidans. These jounrals include topics on LGBT and women studies. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 00:48, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Would be a great addition for those who are actively involved in history-related topics of the Middle East/Near East. [3] [4] - LouisAragon ( talk) 01:21, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
I've got three requests:
The problem is that popular, user-generated databases like the IMDb are unusable on Wikipedia. There are reliable alternatives to the IMDb, but free sites often must sacrifice comprehensiveness or how often they update their database. For example, it can take years before a film shows up in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films. WikiProject Film is one of the more active WikiProjects, and access to any one of these sources would be invaluable, especially in sourcing upcoming films and European films. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 21:56, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
The Register of Graduates, West Point Association of Graduates (WPAOG), Communications and Marketing, 100 potential users (to start)
Formerly, the Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., from its establishment, in 1802 ( example) was published at ten-year intervals and provided biographical data on graduates of USMA, including their Cullum numbers. That resource is now maintained by the WPAOG. Because the Register provides useful data and does not contain adverse information, I'm hopeful that the Association will allow access. I've based my potential users count on the approximately 1100 active members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. I'm guessing that the entry point for communication with the Association is one of the people featured on the web page I've cited.
-- Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 18:13, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
fr:Le Maitron ( contact info with list of current partners) carries a dozen biographical dictionaries on people associated with labor movements. The entire set is available online, but paywalled. There isn't another resource like this in English, and the French version (print or online) isn't readily available in English-language countries. It would be quite a boon to have access to this resource. Jake/@ Samwalton9 (WMF), let me know if this isn't on your docket and I could reach out myself (not in French, though). Or perhaps there are staff from TWL on frwp who can help? czar 22:05, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Taylor and Francis eBooks, Taylor and Francis imprints (Routledge etc), purchase options, at least 100 users based on WikiProject Military History, likely many more because there are also books on "Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Behavioural Sciences, Built Environment and Law." Kges1901 ( talk) 09:37, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
I came across this resource while helping a Wikipedian on the RX Exchange. MIT Press has over 30 journals in the arts & humanities. There are also tons of e-books for purchases as well. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:23, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
http://www.southasiaarchive.com is very useful source for material across fields relating to a high-population region. Shyamal ( talk) 12:56, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Australia's premier newspaper, with archives back to 1955. http://archives.smh.com.au/ Doctorhawkes ( talk) 03:48, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Major Italian newspaper with robust online archives: http://archivio.corriere.it/ czar 21:05, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Aggregator of over 140 African newspapers, which would be extremely useful for anyone trying to write articles on Africa-related topics (certainly there appears to be a lot of useful content on Zambian MPs, which I am currently trying to create articles on). Number 5 7 21:10, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
I've only poked around in these reference works but already I can tell some are crazy good. This looks more valuable than any database currently in TWL—it's that good. Our unsourced article says they're owned by EBSCO now, but I don't know to what extend Salem products are integrated into EBSCO's offerings. [Edit: Actually looks like Critical Survey of Long Fiction is integrated in one of my former university's EBSCO package, but not sure how that squares with ours.]
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Das Deutsch Digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv comprises thousands of published academic papers in some of the most prestigious journals, e.g. in Egyptology with the Göttinger Miszellen. Most of the sources are in English and German with a few in French. The archiv covers subjects in all fields of science and the humanities and would be a great addition to what we can already access. Iry-Hor ( talk) 08:14, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
To whit, the various journals listed here, such as [6]. They could be fairly useful to write articles about volcanology, and I use them for my articles all the time (in fact, about 65 of all uses on Wikipedia) are by me as it is. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 08:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
See this article from The Scholarly Kitchen on what the list is. Cabell both maintains a whitelist and a blacklist. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 12:36, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
The journal is published by University of Tehran on behalf of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture and the Cyberspace Policy Research Center with links to UNESCO's IFAP thematic priorities. [7] Rahiminejad ( talk) 08:07, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
The eLibrary offers many notable German and English books about law and economics. -- Chewbacca2205 ( talk) 19:55, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Can you have a look at access for this site called Aluka - [8]. They have two databases, World Heritage Sites - Africa and Struggle for Freedom - South Africa. Hosted through JSTOR. Thanks. Conlinp ( talk) 07:06, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
The Illustrated London News is a major source for research on popular culture in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. As one of the most widely circulating and influential periodicals of its time, it is a particularly useful source for issues relating to the British Empire. It appears to be available as an optional add-on to the Gale NewsVault product, but happens not to be one of the titles to which we currently have access through the Wikipedia Library. I wonder whether we could get in touch with Gale to request access? Laughing sandbags ( talk) 14:37, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
https://www.accessible-archives.com/
A large collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers, magazines, books, pamphlets, and topical collections on things like slavery and women's suffrage. General area would be American history. List of collections held: https://www.accessible-archives.com/ deisenbe ( talk) 00:45, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
I have used back issues of The New York Times extensively since I gained access to that database via Proquest. My procedure has been to copy the URL of the displayed page and paste it in the appropriate place in the "cite news" template in Source Editor, along with other relevant information. Now I don't know what to do after receiving the following message from another editor today:
Hello, thank you for your work on references. When you cite the New York Times, please search their archives and add real NYT URLs. The ProQuest links are useless for nearly everybody and they're not the canonical location.
I assume that searching the archives to get the "real NYT URLs" would have the same monthly limit for non-subscribers that I encountered before I began using Proquest. Does another option exist for obtaining URLs that are not "useless for nearly everybody"? Eddie Blick ( talk) 21:22, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
A rather nice catalogue of British newspaper articles that I wish to use for 1990s TV series. The only option is to view 3 free articles after creating an account.-- Coin945 ( talk) 08:35, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Hi all, please can you help me access these two newspaper archives? I need them to write an article on a Swedish television series.-- Coin945 ( talk) 08:35, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
I need this book in order for me to expand article. Requesting it. 🥒 Greenish Pickle!🥒 ( 🔔) 11:31, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Interested in us investigating a partnership with a particular publisher or resource? Add the following to the list below at the end of the list:
You can now suggest new databases directly on the Library Card platform! Track our progress towards getting access to requested publishers at the Phabricator board.
South African Government Gazette, Greengazette, http://www.greengazette.co.za/, Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa Nathan121212 ( talk) 16:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE journals , magazines and conference proceedings http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp
More than 2000 ebooks and enormous number of articles are available IEEE here. Almost the best source in Electrical engineering.-- Freshman404 Talk 12:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Genealogybank.com - I think this would be hugely helpful for editors involved in local research for things like country estates and small rural communities and to trace ownership and family lines.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:49, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
The Times archives.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:50, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Excellent, got there eventually ;-). Hope you're well!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:41, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
The Irish Newspaper Archives , "The largest digital archive of Irish newspapers in the world, providing access to millions of newspaper articles spanning 300+ years of Irish history."♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:52, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Toronto Star Archives -millions of newspapers from 1887-2010
Access to Research This covers over 8000 journals and over 10 million academic articles. In the UK its available for access in libraries but not home-reading. Apwoolrich ( talk) 15:57, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Wiley Online Library: 2,000+ journals, more than 16,000+ books—good academic content. – Maky « talk » 09:01, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
@ Astinson (WMF): is Wiley Online Library available in Wikipedia Library already? Would be very helpful. Samat ( talk) 01:51, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Westlaw and Lexis databases for U.S. court decisions. Huge area of low-hanging fruit for improving our articles on federally reported cases; huge collab opportunity with law schools, hugely important subject matter when knowledge of the law = justice, but said knowledge is locked behind a paywall. ⇒ SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 01:51, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
2600:1003:B004:C864:0:9:8E97:3201 ( talk) 16:44, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
LexisNexis is best known for its law databases, but they have great access to newspapers in the LexisNexis Academic database, including papers from the US (national, regional, and local), Canada, and Britain. I fill a good number of WP:RX requests with papers from this database. ~ Rob13 Talk 17:52, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
The New England Journal of Medicine, Massachusetts Medical Society, http://www.nejm.org, contributors on medical stuff. One of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Bloubéri ( talk) 11:52, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Regarded as the newspaper of record in the United States. Pre-1923 material is up for free download as pdfs, but material 1/1/23 onward is paywalled. Carrite ( talk) 19:30, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
@ Carrite and Diannaa: NYT appears to be indexed from 1985 to present at Infotrac. Nikkimaria ( talk) 22:56, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Some of its content is available through search engines, but after a certain number in a month access is denied without a subscription. As one of the United States' newspapers of record, its back issues are a valuable resource. Eddie Blick ( talk) 21:28, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
@ Teblick: NYT appears to be available from 1985 to present via Infotrac. Nikkimaria ( talk) 22:57, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
This is just a follow-up "Thank you!" for providing access to NYT archives via ProQuest. I have used the service often to add information to articles, and I greatly appreciate the efforts of those who are responsible enabling access to the archives. Eddie Blick ( talk) 23:59, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Can we have a news aggregator like Factiva ? 90.10.171.105 ( talk) 12:07, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) publishes a wide range of documents, some of which are freely available and some of which are only available to ITU members. It would be good if Wikipedia editors had access to the full range of ITU publications. Examples of or lists of ITU publications for which access would be useful:
Covering print books published in England between 1473 and 1700, this database shows and allows searching of full scans of original English books: good for tracking down what happened, say, in a first edition of Milton. Covers literature, yes, but also history, religion, politics, philosophy, and many other areas. Link: [1] -- Akhenaten0 ( talk) 19:30, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
With Reaxys you can search Beilstein (Organic), Gmelin (Inorganic and organometallic) and Patent Chemistry databases. Reaxys' search, analysis, and workflow tools are designed around the needs and common tasks of users, including a synthesis planner to design the optimum synthesis route and multistep reactions to identify precursor reactions underlying synthesis of target compounds. Users can filter search results by key properties, synthesis yield, or other ranking criteria. Would be very useful for chemistry articles! Link: [2] Thepcmaniac ( talk) 12:20, 10 May 2015 (EEST)
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Lots of publications especially about humanities and theology/religion studies, but also about philosophy and history; most ebooks and journals are in German but there are also several publications in English. Continua Evoluzione ( talk) 13:31, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
I urge we get access to this http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Oxford students get passwords issued by their colleges. The ability to access digitised texts available there would be very useful. Apwoolrich ( talk) 13:37, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Just dropping a note here to keep the request alive. Access to the Bodleian and Ashmolean collections would still be very useful on many literature-related subjects. These holdings are, of course, primary source material, so it would typically be for scans of title pages of works to illustrate an article on that work or its author, or to check stuff like formats, page counts, printers/publishers, and so forth. Or for a scan-backed transcription onto Wikisource. I'm sure there are other uses, but this is what I usually want it for. (and, no, visiting scholar would probably not be an option for me, though I'm sure for others it might be a better option). -- Xover ( talk) 08:38, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
The essential research tool for scholars in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences, with new content added every month. http://cognet.mit.edu/
The World Shakespeare Bibliography from the Folger Shakespeare Library would be an indispensable tool for finding sources for Shakespeare-related articles. While slightly narrow in scope, there are currently in excess of 1000 articles in the scope of WikiProject Shakespeare, and there is significant overlap into other fields such as history, theatre, film, music (anything that could conceivably be influenced by Shakespeare has been, at one point or another). -- Xover ( talk) 12:04, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Edited by: George Ritzer, eISBN: 9781405124331, Print publication date: 2007, DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com
If anyone knows how I could access this, let me know. It would be quite useful for my planned articles on sociology, and presumably, a useful tool for the entire Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:22, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I have made numerous contributions to Wikipedia from having NewsBank access to newspaper articles from the past several decades at one college library whose librarians thought the students would use it a lot. The resource was too expensive. I am very limited now since the nearest library where I can use it is a few miles farther away. — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:16, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
The historical archives of the Danish newspapers Politiken and Ekstra Bladet: http://www.e-pages.dk/polarkivdemo/1/ and http://www.e-pages.dk/ebarkivdemo/1/ would be really nice to have free access to for especially the Denmark related articles. Froztbyte ( talk) 20:01, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
As is true with the New York Times, some content is available through search engines, but after hitting a limit, availability ceases. It has much valuable material for those of us who write and edit articles about people and events in the United States in the 20th century. Eddie Blick ( talk) 21:31, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Is a Dutch magazine for the shipping, fishing and off shore industries. I plan to contact hem myself, with the help of WMF-nl. One question: at Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Publishers, the section How it works: "Throughout the process we send you quarterly reports about the number of links to your content on Wikipedia and how that changes over time." Can and should I do that myself, and if yes: how? The publisher is here, some 25 more magazines, but all in Dutch. Regards, Sander1453 ( talk) 09:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I was going through the RX and found a few requested resources that could be found here. This publishing house has "books (print and electronic) and journals and series in the Earth and environmental sciences (geology, mineralogy, paleontology), biosciences (plant sciences, zoology, phycology), aquatic ecology and human biology." This would be helpful for the RX in locating science articles -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:32, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Journal of Contemporary Social Services, http://familiesinsocietyjournal.org/, It would be useful to me in researching evidence based social programs Sultec ( talk)
I stumbled upon this site while helping out at the RX. This is another publisher that has access to journal articles and books. Here's the link. This site focuses primarily on humanities subjects -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 21:16, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
I know that the Wikipedia Library has access to SAGE Stats, but not to the full Sage journals website. It would be helpful locating journal articles. They have journals on Health sciences, life & biomedical sciences, materials sciences and engineering and social sciences & humanities. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 22:18, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Routledge is described on its website as "the world's leading academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences." As such, it has publications that would be of value not only in my primary area of interest ( old-time radio), but in a wide variety of other fields, which should be useful to many Wikipedia editors. As I write this message, the website lists 58 categories in which it publishes material. Routledge is a member of the Taylor & Francis group, which makes some of its material available to Wikipedia editors. I found out today, however, that the current agreement with Taylor & Francis applies only to databases -- not to books. I have found samples of Routledge publications on Google books and used material from those, but of course they provide only a limited number of pages of each book. Eddie Blick ( talk) 13:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
The BUFVC is "a representative body which promotes the production, study and use of moving image, sound and related media in higher education, further education and research". Its services include a number of databases. It also runs Box of Broadcasts (BoB), an online archive of radio and television programmes, including all BBC TV and radio content dating from 2007 (800,000+ programmes) over 10 foreign language channels, including French, German and Italian.
There is a Derby University case study on the use of BoB.
For example, access to this BUFVC recording would enable me to improve Denis Martin and related articles.
It is possible that access may have to be limited to Wikimedians in the UK. We may need negotiate to obtain an ERA licence, first.
As I am in the UK, I would be willing to assist in reaching out to BUFVC, or ERA, or to act as a local point of contact. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:02, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
BearManor Media publishes a fairly extensive list of books related to film, television, radio and the people involved in them, focusing more on history than on the present day. Most of my creating and editing of Wikipedia articles involves those areas, and I see a number of titles on the company's website that would be useful. I would appreciate someone's investigating whether Wikipedia might establish an arrangement with BearManor like the one it already has with McFarland. Eddie Blick ( talk) 02:31, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
AccessEngineering provides access to McGraw-Hill reference publications. It covers 14 major areas of engineering. It would be a valuable asset for developing engineering concepts on Wikipedias, that are not really included in traditional academic databases which focus more on research, and books that are not available in your local library. Amqui ( talk) 15:37, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
It would be great to have access to additional Elsevier content alongside the great range of ScienceDirect journals and books. Information technology journals, such as the Journal of Information Security and Applications, would be highly useful in WikiProject Computer Security work. Thanks! Seba5tien ( talk/ contribs) 16:55, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
http://gdc.gale.com/gale-literature-collections/literature-resource-center/
Access to many biographical sources and other journals that aren't included in our other current packages. I'd love to see this added to our Gale partnership. czar 15:13, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
" Oxford Scholarly Editions" contains things like (my area of interest) the complete set of critical editions of the plays and poems from The Oxford Shakespeare, and all manner of other scholarly editions in many fields. In addition, Oxford University Press has recently announced " The New Oxford Shakespeare" a fully digitally integrated new complete edition of The Oxford Shakespeare. How the content of the one will relate to the other is not clear (maybe the new editions will replace the extant ones on Oxford Scholarly Editions?), but access to either or, preferably, both these services would be wonderfully useful.
PS. Pinging Samwalton9 (WMF) since he's the one that most recently seemed to be talking to OUP (cf. the Bloomsbury thread above). -- Xover ( talk) 09:59, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
@ Samwalton9 (WMF): Any news on Oxford Schoarly Editions and The New Oxford Shakespeare? -- Xover ( talk) 08:14, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
The US national archives. Holds an enormous number of documents, etc, certainly in the millions. Currently I need about 40 documents from it, for research. scope_creep ( talk) 16:40, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
I came across this publisher while attempting to find a source in the Resource Exchange. This publisher offers over 50 journals that could be beneficial to Wikipeidans. These jounrals include topics on LGBT and women studies. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 00:48, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Would be a great addition for those who are actively involved in history-related topics of the Middle East/Near East. [3] [4] - LouisAragon ( talk) 01:21, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
I've got three requests:
The problem is that popular, user-generated databases like the IMDb are unusable on Wikipedia. There are reliable alternatives to the IMDb, but free sites often must sacrifice comprehensiveness or how often they update their database. For example, it can take years before a film shows up in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films. WikiProject Film is one of the more active WikiProjects, and access to any one of these sources would be invaluable, especially in sourcing upcoming films and European films. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 21:56, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
The Register of Graduates, West Point Association of Graduates (WPAOG), Communications and Marketing, 100 potential users (to start)
Formerly, the Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., from its establishment, in 1802 ( example) was published at ten-year intervals and provided biographical data on graduates of USMA, including their Cullum numbers. That resource is now maintained by the WPAOG. Because the Register provides useful data and does not contain adverse information, I'm hopeful that the Association will allow access. I've based my potential users count on the approximately 1100 active members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. I'm guessing that the entry point for communication with the Association is one of the people featured on the web page I've cited.
-- Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 18:13, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
fr:Le Maitron ( contact info with list of current partners) carries a dozen biographical dictionaries on people associated with labor movements. The entire set is available online, but paywalled. There isn't another resource like this in English, and the French version (print or online) isn't readily available in English-language countries. It would be quite a boon to have access to this resource. Jake/@ Samwalton9 (WMF), let me know if this isn't on your docket and I could reach out myself (not in French, though). Or perhaps there are staff from TWL on frwp who can help? czar 22:05, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Taylor and Francis eBooks, Taylor and Francis imprints (Routledge etc), purchase options, at least 100 users based on WikiProject Military History, likely many more because there are also books on "Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Behavioural Sciences, Built Environment and Law." Kges1901 ( talk) 09:37, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
I came across this resource while helping a Wikipedian on the RX Exchange. MIT Press has over 30 journals in the arts & humanities. There are also tons of e-books for purchases as well. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 19:23, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
http://www.southasiaarchive.com is very useful source for material across fields relating to a high-population region. Shyamal ( talk) 12:56, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Australia's premier newspaper, with archives back to 1955. http://archives.smh.com.au/ Doctorhawkes ( talk) 03:48, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Major Italian newspaper with robust online archives: http://archivio.corriere.it/ czar 21:05, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Aggregator of over 140 African newspapers, which would be extremely useful for anyone trying to write articles on Africa-related topics (certainly there appears to be a lot of useful content on Zambian MPs, which I am currently trying to create articles on). Number 5 7 21:10, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
I've only poked around in these reference works but already I can tell some are crazy good. This looks more valuable than any database currently in TWL—it's that good. Our unsourced article says they're owned by EBSCO now, but I don't know to what extend Salem products are integrated into EBSCO's offerings. [Edit: Actually looks like Critical Survey of Long Fiction is integrated in one of my former university's EBSCO package, but not sure how that squares with ours.]
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Das Deutsch Digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv comprises thousands of published academic papers in some of the most prestigious journals, e.g. in Egyptology with the Göttinger Miszellen. Most of the sources are in English and German with a few in French. The archiv covers subjects in all fields of science and the humanities and would be a great addition to what we can already access. Iry-Hor ( talk) 08:14, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
To whit, the various journals listed here, such as [6]. They could be fairly useful to write articles about volcanology, and I use them for my articles all the time (in fact, about 65 of all uses on Wikipedia) are by me as it is. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 08:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
See this article from The Scholarly Kitchen on what the list is. Cabell both maintains a whitelist and a blacklist. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 12:36, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
The journal is published by University of Tehran on behalf of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture and the Cyberspace Policy Research Center with links to UNESCO's IFAP thematic priorities. [7] Rahiminejad ( talk) 08:07, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
The eLibrary offers many notable German and English books about law and economics. -- Chewbacca2205 ( talk) 19:55, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Can you have a look at access for this site called Aluka - [8]. They have two databases, World Heritage Sites - Africa and Struggle for Freedom - South Africa. Hosted through JSTOR. Thanks. Conlinp ( talk) 07:06, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
The Illustrated London News is a major source for research on popular culture in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. As one of the most widely circulating and influential periodicals of its time, it is a particularly useful source for issues relating to the British Empire. It appears to be available as an optional add-on to the Gale NewsVault product, but happens not to be one of the titles to which we currently have access through the Wikipedia Library. I wonder whether we could get in touch with Gale to request access? Laughing sandbags ( talk) 14:37, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
https://www.accessible-archives.com/
A large collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers, magazines, books, pamphlets, and topical collections on things like slavery and women's suffrage. General area would be American history. List of collections held: https://www.accessible-archives.com/ deisenbe ( talk) 00:45, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
I have used back issues of The New York Times extensively since I gained access to that database via Proquest. My procedure has been to copy the URL of the displayed page and paste it in the appropriate place in the "cite news" template in Source Editor, along with other relevant information. Now I don't know what to do after receiving the following message from another editor today:
Hello, thank you for your work on references. When you cite the New York Times, please search their archives and add real NYT URLs. The ProQuest links are useless for nearly everybody and they're not the canonical location.
I assume that searching the archives to get the "real NYT URLs" would have the same monthly limit for non-subscribers that I encountered before I began using Proquest. Does another option exist for obtaining URLs that are not "useless for nearly everybody"? Eddie Blick ( talk) 21:22, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
A rather nice catalogue of British newspaper articles that I wish to use for 1990s TV series. The only option is to view 3 free articles after creating an account.-- Coin945 ( talk) 08:35, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Hi all, please can you help me access these two newspaper archives? I need them to write an article on a Swedish television series.-- Coin945 ( talk) 08:35, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
I need this book in order for me to expand article. Requesting it. 🥒 Greenish Pickle!🥒 ( 🔔) 11:31, 20 April 2024 (UTC)