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WikiProject Resource Exchange


The Resource Exchange, aka the Library, is a WikiProject dedicated to organizing and sharing the vast resources available to wikipedians and research resources available on the net for free, to aid in verification. That way, if facts come into question or you are looking for a source to back your edit, you can easily ask someone with a relevant authoritative text to help resolve problems.

This project has three main features:

  • Shared Resources: A list of resources available to other Wikipedians:
    • add your own resources here in the appropriate section and provide as much detail as possible (version of the resource, storage form of the resource (paper, CD-ROM, online archive etc.))
    • search this list if you're looking for something and ask help on the talkpage of the Wikipedian who has the resource you were looking for.
  • Resource Request: Request a newspaper/magazine article or request a specific search in a commercial full-text newspaper or journal database or an other electronic information source. The participants of this project try to track down your request and e-mail it to you.

Some guidelines and tips:

Resources are collections of information and facts. For advice on Wikipedia-specific tools, see Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia.

It is assumed that the resources you offer are available to you for free or that you are willing to cover any costs.

The offered sources are not public domain resources. They may be helpful references, but you are not allowed to copy material directly from these sources. Some public domain resources can be found in the links in the template at the top of this page.

Users should note that these shared usage offers are only valid for Wikipedia purposes.


Shared Resources

We offer you our resources.

This section is designed as a way for wikipedians to share the benefits of access to difficult to find references. Many rural areas have limited or no access to much of what other wikipedians take for granted. Some users have access to resources that are truly difficult to find or are cost-prohibitive for most people.

What kind of resources? Everything ranging from peer review journals, encyclopedia sets, law libraries, non-free newspaper archives and biographies to works of fiction. Basicly: anything that can be used as a source for Wikipedia. If you have reliable access to a usefull resource, then this is the place for you!

If you’re looking for a particular resource, scan the list below. Once you find a user with the resource you’re looking for leave a check-request on their talk page or e-mail them from their user page. Provide the full citation. The more specific the reference is the more likely you will get a helpful reply back.

We need your help: if you want to help the project, add your name under the resources you have access to, or add your own usefull resources.

Libraries

Encyclopedias

Chambers's Encyclopaedia

  • 1886 Edition, "Collier, Publisher", New York - 8 volumes — Omegatron 00:10, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopædia Britannica

New International Encyclopedia

  • 1912 Edition, public domain, complete set - ---J.S (T/C) 19:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

World Book Encyclopedia

World Records

Miscellaneous

Dictionaries

Periodical archives & peer review journals

  • Most science journals. Tim Vickers 05:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Can provide access to pretty much any peer review journal on the web. Verisimilus 09:06, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Almost any humanities journal available in electronic form. I have access to anything listed on JSTOR or MUSE, and essentially all available electronic backfiles of academic periodicals except in medicine & agriculture temporarily unavailable . 16:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC) DGG 03:19, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • MathSciNet E-mail me (not talk page unless you're in no rush at all, as I'm generally not logged in to WP). msh210℠ 20:48, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good access to newspaper archives. --Ian Pitchford 18:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • As a librarian, I have access to the last year of most major mainstream periodicals that are not newspapers. (The Nation, National Review, etc). --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:56, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Any newspaper, magazine and academic journal you can find in this database (K.U.Leuven university libraries). Key to the city 20:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

English language

German language

  • Der Spiegel (weekly newsmagazine)
    • Paper form, 1967-present: Key to the city
    • Electronic access from 1986 to present (without pictures): Eloquence
    • CD-ROM archives 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001 (with pictures): Eloquence
  • Konkret (monthly leftist magazine)
  • Taz (daily newspaper)
    • Electronic access from 1986 to present: Eloquence
  • German news agencies
    • Various, electronic access from 1998 to present: Eloquence

Monographs (books)

Non fiction

Philosophy
Science, mathematics, medicine & nature
Technology & computer science
Social sciences (economics, history, law, linguistics, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology)
Places, geography & travel
Culture & anthropology
Anthropology
  • A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples, Barry M. Pritzker, 2000 (Danny)
Culinary
Music
  • The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, Joel Whitburn, 2000 (7th ed.) (Bumm13)
  • The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles 14 edition. Chart positions and dates for all singles which entered the top 75 since the fifties. --bodnotbod 22:43, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
Biographies
Manuals & "how to" books
  • Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (1993): Centrx
Other
  • The Book of Heroic Failures, or the Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain; Stephen Pile; Penguin Books 1979 Ta bu shi da yu
  • The Return of Heroic Failures; Stephen Pile; Penguin Books 1988 Ta bu shi da yu
  • The Little Aussie Fact Book; Margaret Nicholson; Penguin Group (Australia) 2006 Kathleen.wright5

Fiction

Free Online Resources

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For a list of online dictionaries, please see Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Other Dictionaries on the Web.

The following list is meant to help you with your own research. A lot of references can be found online, free of access.

Please add free online sources if you know some that are missing in this list, but try to keep it relevant.

General

  • Librarian's Index to the Internet -- websites reviewed by librarians on all sorts of topics
  • Google Scholar - Searches peer-reviewed sources.
  • FindArticles
    • Search results usually include free access to articles (esp sourced from British newspapers and magazines) not found through Google, including articles that pre-date widespread use of the Internet and even from the late 80s. Provided by LookSmart.
    • List of Periodicals 1000+ available.
    • Advanced Search
  • KeepMedia
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Excellent resource for 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2003. Login is required to access, and it's not strictly free - however, if you're in the UK, entering your library card number will almost certainly get you in. Many libraries elsewhere in the world also have unrestricted access.

Sports

  • Amateur Athletic Foundation Digital Archive - over 200,000 pages of "academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications. The Olympic titles include a complete run of back issues of Olympic Review, the official publication of the International Olympic Committee, and two dozen Olympic Games official reports."

Medicine

  • PubMed Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System. Free access to biomedical databases: online science textbooks, clinical trials, biomedical literature, Human genome, protein structure, taxonomy, etc. Put out by the National Library of Medicine.

Geography / Country Info

Canada


Business

Election statistics

Link lists

User-made multi-site searches

  • Bodnotbod's British media search
    • Click it to restrict your Google search to:
    • Once you have clicked you can drag the favicon to your links bar for future quick access or just add to your favourites.
    • Add further sites simply by adding OR site:www.foo-bar.com to the end of the search in the Google input box; add no search terms; press return; then bookmark or what-have-you.

Online research, journals, academic periodicals, and sourcebooks

Some of the links below are helpful for finding references online. We are also listing some journals found in JSTOR in particular that come with the benefit of free access. See also list of scientific journals and list of journal search engines.

Research

Sourcebooks, encyclopedias, and archives

Academic journals and periodicals

Policy think-tanks, advocacy, other

News agencies

Resource Request

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Need an article?

Here you can request a search in a commercial full-text newspaper or journal database or other information source; the resulting article will be emailed to you. (These databases have a feature that allows to forward search results to a specified email address.) We can also attempt to find the full text of a article that you have the citation for.

Note that articles from journals and newspapers published in or after 1923 are almost always copyrighted; you are not allowed to publish them, pass them on, use them for commercial purposes or use them verbatim for Wikipedia articles.

Instructions

To request a search in one of these databases, start a new section under Requests and sign with your username or leave your email address. Request specific titles, dates, or a combination of keywords; you may specify which database to search in. Exact citations, if you have them, are best.

The email you will receive sometimes contains links that cannot be used without paid subscription, but the actual article will be attached to that email and can be saved to your computer. Once a request has been fulfilled, add a note to that effect to the request, so that the work won't be duplicated.

It's also best to keep an eye on your request on this page. Questions and remarks will be posted as reactions under your request section.

Direct contact

These volunteers that locate and send articles are willing to be contacted, sometimes by Instant Messenger, to handle complex queries.

  • Lotsofissues AOL:Lotsofissues1
  • phoebe -- can access most research databases, verify citations, explain journal abbreviations, help with research techniques and interlibrary loan. I can also help you figure out where to get it if I can't get it myself. Please leave a message on my talk page or send wikipedia email.
  • DGG I have most professional databases available, except in law and medicine, and can give advice on where to look. Ask at my talk page for assistance. I also have access to anything listed on JSTOR or MUSE, and essentially all available electronic backfiles of academic periodicals except in medicine & agriculture., but I'd prefer article requests by email from my user page, so I can email them back. DGG 01:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Key to the city - I can find you anything from the K.U.Leuven libraries. The K.U.Leuven has acces to almost any scientific electronic database. Besides those databases I can look something up in any work you can find here: searchable database, that includes a lot of newspapers and magazines (scientific as well as popular) from all over the world.


Anyone whose library provides access to a relevant database can fulfill requests. Sign up here!

Databases

A sampling of the databases that are available:

New requests

Please add new requests in this section. Please put new requests at the bottom of this section. Exact citations are preferred; include the source name and any citation information you have. Please indicate if you are looking for only that particular article or other information as well. Include a way to get in touch with you (email preferred; we'll need it to send you any digitized articles we find).

January-February 2007

George Gould Strong
  • George Gould Strong born 1910 died about 1964 in Southampton Hospital, Southampton, Suffolk Co., Long Island, New York. I have searched for a NYT obituary with no luck, but there should have been a local obituary. Does anyone have access to the archives of the Southampton Press or the Easthampton Star or another local paper? - Nunh-huh 20:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • JOHN N. STRONG

Specfal to THE NEW' YORE TI:MS. New York Times (1857-Current file); Nov 14, 1942; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2003) pg. 16.

Do you want it? There is sparse mention, it's his dad's obit. I also found a ref to a George Strong who was elected mayor of "The Landing" in the 1930s, is this him? IvoShandor 11:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Ivo for spotting this. I've had a look, and that's him, but unfortunately his dad's obit doesn't carry enough information about the son for "creating-an-article" purposes. I don't know if George Strong was ever elected mayor of anything.... - Nunh-huh 15:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this George G. Strong a musician (the guy in this article)? Or can you tell me a bit what you do know about him? It would help with my search. Key to the city 09:26, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nunh-huh responded on my talk page with this:

Yes, George Gould Strong was the guy depicted in the musical Grey Gardens. Basically, I know this: he was born 21 January 1910 in East Hampton, New York, the son of John Young Strong and Fannie (Baker) Strong, growing up in a house on Amagansett Road. He lived for a time in Paris, and in New York City at 725 Lexington Avenue, probably after he lived at Grey Gardens. He was, as depicted in the musical, the personal accompanist of Edith Beale; he was also an accompanist in Paris and New York, and is said to have had a radio show in New York. Though the musical depicts him as gay, it's not that clear that's actually true, and it's certainly not true that he committed suicide (except metaphorically); he died, apparently about 1964 in Southampton Hospital in Southampton, Long Island, the cause of death apparently being gastrointestinal hemorrhage from drinking, complicated by the fact that he had become a Christian Scientist (which may be something he picked up from Mrs. Beale). I wanted especially to firm up his date of death (the 1964 is an estimate based on someone's recollection that he died when she was 12), which is probably only possible if his obituary can be located in the Southampton Bee or Easthampton Star or one of the other local papers. - Nunh-huh 21:10, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I did some research, but I got to admid that this one is out of my league. I hope an American helps you with this request. But I thought I post the answer anyway, maybe it helps other researchers. Key to the city 09:40, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March-April 2007

Samuel R. Gerber

I'm investigating Samuel R. Gerber (Ohio State county coroner) and I found he's had an obituary in a 1987 Plain Dealer issue. I think it was May that year. Could someone with access get me a copy? - Mgm|(talk) 08:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gerber was a famous forensic scientist/pathologist and known for his work in the Sam Sheppard case. I want to know if there is a biographical entry for him (National Cyclopedia) or elsewhere. User:MacGyverMagic/WIP lists the sources I already have although the obituary may not be the complete one. - 87.211.75.45 18:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lizz murder

I need to find a story of a girl who was murdered in the 1940s or 1950s. I only have her first name as Lizza. She was murdered around the Suffield Connecticut, East Gramby Connecticut Area. Any information can be sent to moquendo at rocketmail dot com.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.249.47.8 (talk • contribs)

What Wikipedia article would this be for? --Gwern (contribs) 16:39 29 March 2007 (GMT)
Cecil Wells murder

Does anyone have access to Alaska newspapers or Calif for years 1954-55-56 Looking for info on Diane Wells and Johnny Warren charged with murder in Fairbanks, Alaska. Any information on the Cecil Wells murder in Fairbanks is requested. d.fredell at gmail dot com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.119.144.46 (talk • contribs)

That's seriously vague - any particular newspapers maybe? --Gwern (contribs) 16:36 29 March 2007 (GMT)
Does [1] help? --NE2 08:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

April-May 2007

William McCrum

I'm trying to find the obituary of William McCrum. This FIFA page mentions 'In 1932 an obituary appeared in a Northern Ireland paper in Milford, County Armagh'. I don't know the exact date of the obit' or which paper it was in but it must have been in late December as he died 'just before Christmas'. Sorry for the vagueness, any hints appreciated. JMiall 15:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Backmasking

Doing some research for backmasking. This JSTOR article will be helpful: 'More Popular Than Jesus': The Beatles and the Religious Far Right. Also, either of the following articles cited here:

  1. McIver, T. (1988). Backward masking, and other backward thoughts about music. Sceptical Inquirer, 13, 50-63.
  2. Walker, M.W. (1985). Backward messages in commercially available recordings. Journal of Popular Music and Society, 10, 2-13.

Any other articles on backmasking (a.k.a. "backward masking") not already used in Backmasking are welcome. Contact me with Special:Emailuser/Audacity. Λυδαcιτγ 20:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied regarding first request. –Outriggr § 23:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
State Route 1002 (Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)

This is a bit of a long shot, but I would like the text of the act of June 22, 1931 (P.L.720, No. 262), entitled "An act providing for the taking over by the Commonwealth...". If it's long, anything relating to Route 159 or Union Boulevard would be the most useful. I believe that portion begins "Beginning at a point on West Union Boulevard", and if it mentions anything about Broad Street or Market Street being removed. I am neroute2 at gmail. Thank you very much. --NE2 00:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bethlehem Pike

Could you guys find out any information on the 19th century turnpike of this historic route. I eould really appriciate I you would find any additional information about the route. I am allentownalbert@aol.com. Thanks. -- JA10 T · C 06:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Pennsylvania Route 739

I need to replace a few refs in Pennsylvania Route 739 and need one for its establishment. Thank you.Mitchazenia 23:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does [2] help? --NE2 07:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, but alot of the references are from books and I was hoping to get a newspaper article. -- JA10 T · C 01:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

July-August 2007

Snickersville Turnpike (the first toll road in the U.S.)

I would like the full text of chapter xxx of the Acts of 1785 of the U.S. state of Virginia. This includes "leading into the town of Alexandria from Snigger's and Vesta's Gaps". neroute2 at gmail. Thank you. --NE2 00:21, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Homerun (film)

Finding referenced information on Singaporean movies is difficult. I have expanded this article as far as I can with web-based references alone. However, I will need newspaper references to expand it further. Around the day the movie was released in cinemas, The Straits Times published an article about the differences between Children of Heaven and Homerun (I could write an entire section comparing the two movies, solely based on that reference). Furthermore, The Straits Times and Channel NewsAsia are likely to provide enough references to write a decent Production section (a neccesity if I ever push the article for GA status). Other newspapers may provide referenced information that I could use to expand the Political satire and Reception sections. Could somebody search LexisNexis, Factiva and/or Newslink for newspaper articles about the movie, and e-mail their full text and citation information to hildanknight(AT)gmail(DOT)com? --J.L.W.S. The Special One 13:41, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jelqing

"There has been only one study on “jelqing” done by Dr. Brian Richards in the late 1970s. The British Journal of Sexual Medicine published the results. According to the study, 87 percent of men had positive results." [3]. Does anyone have access or exact bibliographical reference? [4] -- Thanx Cherubino 12:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The only remotely similar reference I could find in Pubmed was Richards BA. "Mechanical aids to sex." Br J Sex Med. 1975 Oct;2(5):33-5, 37. No abstract available. PMID: 830127 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]." This is probably it, but I don't have access to the journal. The term doesn't appear anywhere in PubMed, which is pretty suspicious. -- phoebe/(talk) 01:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

October 2007

Louis R. Vitullo

I already have plenty of newspaper articles about the guy (Chicago Sun-Times), but I wonder if the National Cyclopedia of American Biography I requested for Paul Kirk also has info on Vitullo. I came up empty in my own library, but they lack a lot of publications. Any other biographical entry is welcome too. - 87.211.75.45 18:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Wornum, George Wilkinson (music publisher)

Michael Kassler in "Broderip, Wilkinson and the first English edition of the '48'" Musical Times, Summer 2006 quotes a little from an advertisement with details about the fire at 315 Oxford street in The Times but NewspaperArchive seems to be missing the issue from October 13, 1812 - I don't know if Gale has it. threesixesinarow@yahoo.com

  • The Times October 13, 1812, p.2

- Mireut 14:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • It seems that paper is so old, that there is no digital copy available; Lexis Nexis doesn't have it either. I think you'd have to ask The Times directly, or head for the British Library. - Mgm|(talk) 17:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

November 2007

Cross Bronx Expressway

I would like a copy of New Bridge Completes L.I.-to-Jersey Bypass, April 14, 1963 at neroute2 at gmail. Thank you. --NE2 23:49, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Filled requests

These requests have been addressed; additional information may be welcome. Archive this page if it gets too long. Please also sign below the request or make a note when a request has been filled, so we know it's ok to archive.

Tricky one

Not quite sure if this is doable, but on Eddie Campbell's blog [5] he references an article from The Guardian by Waldemar Januszczak from 1984 which contains the following text: "... since the neurotics appropriated the comic strip we have seen the perfect marriage of form and content... They have subverted its innocence , and filled its thought bubbles with their wretched, guilt-sodden soliloquies." Is that small info enough to work from? I've asked Campbell for a date but figured I'd get the ball rolling. Steve block Talk 19:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have full-text access to the Guardian from that far back, sorry. -- phoebe 00:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Darn. My own access only goes back to 92, too. I'll have to track down fiche copies I guess, see if I can better source the date. Thanks anyway. Steve block Talk 01:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, good old Mr Campbell gives me the date as July 24 1984, page 9 if that is any help to anyone else in tracking this down. Thanks in advance. Steve block Talk 01:43, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Found it. I'll e-mail it to you. Gzkn 09:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Guess I didn't find it...I neglected to actually match the text above to the article I found ;). I tried to do a full-text search on some of the phrases above, but got nothing...sorry! Gzkn 00:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I requested a copy of that page in a library, I'll probably have it in a couple of days/weeks. Key to the city 11:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Paul Kirk

I asked about this on the science reference desk, but received no reply. Is there a page similar to this for books instead of newspapers and magazines? I've found there's an entry for Paul L. Kirk in volume 56 of the "National Cyclopedia of American Biography", but unfortunately my local academic library doesn't cary it and since it's a reference work, I can't have it brought in from another library. Can someone who has access send me a copy of the text and the info I need to properly cite the book? I would also like to see if there's a obituary carrying more information about this man. - Mgm|(talk) 11:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you could provide the page numbers for vol56, I might be able to put in a research ILL request. --Gwern (contribs) 16:31 29 March 2007 (GMT)
  • I'm not sure the page numbers were listed, but I'll check. - Mgm|(talk) 09:16, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Left a note on yr talk page with more potential citations. I don't have page numbers either. -- phoebe/(talk) 00:58, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've placed a request in a library, I expect to get your article in a week or so. Key to the city 14:39, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Article send. Key to the city 12:24, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Research for NBCC article

I'm trying to flesh out the content in the National Black Chamber of Commerce article. Any information regarding its local or international chapters and/or affiliation with companies such as ExxonMobile, ATT, Hewlett-Packard, Lord Abbett or Altria (used to be Phillip Morris) would be appreciated. "Email this user" is available for my account. Thanks!--LtlKtytalk | contribs 03:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, if you haven't found any, never mind. Lots of things are now coming up in Google. Thanks, anyway!--LtlKtytalk | contribs 04:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I found two minor articles in a database. I've e-mailed them, hope you can do something with them. Key to the city 12:06, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since google solved some of the request and I did a search in most of the economical and news databases, I'm going to consider this request as filled. You can put it back up if you're not completely satisfied. Key to the city 09:45, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A name to redirect to Virginia Tech massacre

Someone with a New York Times article subscription, please look at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/20070417_SHOOTING_GRAPHIC.html

I want to find the name of a girl who escaped Liviu Librescu's class in Norris 204. I think she described herself as the third to leave. I want to redirect her name to the V-Tech article to prevent creation of redirects. This is an internet source, but now requires subscriber access to view. WhisperToMe 21:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I replied at his talk page with the answer. Key to the city 11:25, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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