Wikipedia talk:Newspapers and magazines request service

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This is a brilliant concept. Can we please have as well "Poole's Plus", (AKA Nineteenth Century Masterfile) which has Poole's Index to periodicals, as well as other lists including the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers. These cover the Long C19, approx 1800-1914. Thanks Apwoolrich 18:59, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

It depends on whether Poole's allows for email requests. I can't check because our library doesn't have it. I just checked JSTOR, and unfortunately they don't have an email feature. AxelBoldt 20:24, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps ths page should be merged with Wikipedia:Research resources, which is also a directory of resources and users who have access to them.--Eloquence* 08:52, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Nah, this page is designed to make many ppl responsible for fullfilling centrally placed requests. That page is just a listing that adds the burden of an additonal layer -- personal contact -- to the request. Lotsofissues 09:18, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

This process of having a single place to put requests could be added to Wikipedia:Research resources. Research helpers would then contact the listed individuals, if they do not respond directly on the page. If this page grows, it is likely anyway that some of the people who have access to the resources listed will no longer check for requests. So it makes sense to also list, next to the resources, the names of the people who have access to them. But I agree that it also makes sense to have a single place to post queries. Combine the approaches and you get the best of both worlds.--Eloquence* 13:29, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

I like the idea of having a list of resources and the list of requests in the same place, since one does little good without the other. If you're a requestor, it's hard to tell whether a particular database, etc. would do any good for a particular request without actually having access to it. The listing of databases would seem to be most useful for the researchers; if Lotsofissues has access to, say, Poole's and I don't then I ought to know that in case someone emails me directly with a historical article request. Of course, I'm not sure I want to list out all of the hundreds of things my university happens to subscribe to, either... Brassratgirl 00:37, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 ==The Journal of Popular Culture== 2 Article help please 3 Have a look on the German Bibliotheksrecherche 4 Is this a good idea?

[edit] ==The Journal of Popular Culture==

Do either of you have access to the above publication through your sources? Hiding talk 20:40, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes we have access through factiva. Lotsofissues 21:39, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article help please

copied to project page, new requests section

[edit] Have a look on the German Bibliotheksrecherche

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bibliotheksrecherche --Historiograf 02:58, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is this a good idea?

Has anyone run this past Brad Patrick for due diligence? Obviously ProQuest and Infotrac probably wouldn't go after educational users for the occasional request since they cater to an educational audience and they don't want bad PR. But LexisNexis is a bit more greedy and might get seriously pissed if they see too much content getting out of their walled garden via this request page. --Coolcaesar 05:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Its covered by the license agreements issued to public libraries. So long as a valid license holder does the search, or in the case of a multiseat license, the searcher performs the search from within the library. New York City allows a few people to search from home and dial in if they meet strict ADA. The New York Times archive allows searching via the Internet with a valid library card for the text archive. The image archive (1841-1980), still has to be done in the library. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 06:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Right, but only LexisNexis Academic (web.lexis-nexis.com) is available at public libraries (I use it for Wikipedia research occasionally). Lexis.com and Nexis.com (both of which I have used in various work contexts) are not available at public libraries (except certain wealthy public law libraries) because they are not intended to be offered for free to public users. --Coolcaesar 09:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Legally, I think each person sending the requests has to take responsibility for accessing the articles, and should have legal access to the databases in question (in other words, they should be a campus or public library member). Most database license agreements do specify that articles must be used only for the personal research of the library member; not getting paid & not using the results commercially is important. I am willing to do database searches and help people figure out the best ways to do research as an extension of my professional job; I may not be able to get all requested articles due to licensing issues (and I certainly can't do professional Lexis searches!) --phoebe (brassratgirl) /(talk) 22:10, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Most databases in academic libraries are licensed for the use in that library by anyone who has permission to use the library, even if unaffiliated. (some libraries, however, do not permit this because of lack of facilities). Even the ones that do not permit direct use, usually permit a librarian to search. DGG 01:28, 2 June 2007 (UTC)