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The Wikipedia Library is an open research hub, a place for active Wikipedia editors to gain access to the vital reliable sources that they need to do their work and to be supported in using those resources to improve the encyclopedia. It can be accessed by any registered editor whose account is six months old and has 500 edits.
The Wikipedia Library is an open research hub, a place for active Wikipedia editors to gain access to the vital reliable sources that they need to do their work and to be supported in using those resources to improve the encyclopedia. We aim to make access and use of sources free, easy, collaborative and efficient.
This box searches the more than 80,000 unique periodicals provided and indexed in The Wikipedia Library's partner databases. Enter a search term in the box to find titles that contain that term, or enter the name of a particular publication in quotations (e.g., "Gestalt Review" ) to see which databases include it.
Library buildings often provide quiet areas for studying, as well as common areas for group study and collaboration, and may provide public facilities for access to their electronic resources, such as computers and access to the Internet. The library's clientele and general services offered vary depending on its type, size and sometimes ...
Visiting Scholars gain full and free access to a library's online catalogue in order to improve articles on the encyclopedia. The partnerships are unpaid and remote. Editors gain access to the best available sources, while libraries help serve their mission of sharing knowledge while learning how to harness the power of Wikipedia.
Library websites can offer: [1] Interaction with the library catalog. An Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) provides the ability log into a library account to renew or request items. Gateway to electronic resources. Libraries may organize the various periodical indexes, electronic reference collections, and other databases they subscribe to.
The Wikipedia Library partners with paywalled journals and database providers because we have an encyclopedia to write today, yet much of the world's knowledge is locked behind paywalls. The balance is in Here's our stance on why partnering with paywalled information sources is actually complementary to embracing and advocating for open access:
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.