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===IEEE===

More than 2000 ebooks and enormous number of articles are available [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp IEEE here]. Almost the best source in [[Electrical engineering]].--[[User:Freshman404|<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">'''Freshman404'''</fontspan>]]^{[[User talk:Freshman404|<fontspan colorstyle="color:green;">'''''Talk'''''</fontspan>]]} 12:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

:{{re|Freshman404}} As [[#IEEE|above]], I've been emailing IEEE about the potential for a partnership. Haven't heard anything in a while so I'll follow up :) [[User:Samwalton9 (WMF)|Samwalton9 (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Samwalton9 (WMF)|talk]]) 17:04, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

::{{ping|Samwalton9 (WMF)}} I have some institutional access to this document center, if anyone needs, I can send him/her the requested document.--[[User:Freshman404|<b style="color: red">Freshman404</b>]]^{[[User talk:Freshman404|<b style="color: green">''Talk''</b>]]} 15:16, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

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== Wiley Online Library ==

[[Wiley Online Library]]: 2,000+ journals, more than 16,000+ books—good academic content. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.1em 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: fantasy, cursive, Serif">'''–&nbsp;[[User:Maky|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkgreen;">Maky</fontspan>]] ^{«[[User talk:Maky|<fontspan colorstyle="color:olive;">&nbsp;talk&nbsp;</fontspan>]]»}'''</span> 09:01, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

#:I agree, it would be helpful. [[User:JimRenge|JimRenge]] ([[User talk:JimRenge|talk]]) 18:00, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

#::I concur! [[User:Arbitrarily0|<span style='color:black'><b><u><i><big>A</big>rbitrarily<big>0</big></i></u></b></span>]]&nbsp;^{<b>([[User talk:Arbitrarily0|<span style="font-variant: small-caps; color:#FF4500;">talk</span>]])</b>} 16:12, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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#: I'd like to be able to access [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291475-2743| Soil Use and Management]. Many people think of soil as unimportant but we get almost all our food from soil, it's the biggest carbon store after rocks and oceans, and yet soil is being lost and damaged, so this is an important journal.[[User:Rowan Adams|Rowan Adams]] ([[User talk:Rowan Adams|talk]]) 12:29, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Maky|JimRange|Arbitrarily|WeijiBaikiBianji}} We have begun some positive talks with Wiley, so hopefully we will have something good to report soon, [[User:Astinson (WMF)|Astinson (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Astinson (WMF)|talk]]) 15:53, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

::That's great! Just drop me a note if something develops. I'm going out of town next week for a conference (May 26–30), so hopefully I won't be too late on any sign-ups. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.1em 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: fantasy, cursive, Serif">'''–&nbsp;[[User:Maky|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkgreen;">Maky</fontspan>]] ^{«[[User talk:Maky|<fontspan colorstyle="color:olive;">&nbsp;talk&nbsp;</fontspan>]]»}'''</span> 23:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

::{{Ping|Astinson (WMF)}}Any update on this? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.1em 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: fantasy, cursive, Serif">'''–&nbsp;[[User:Maky|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkgreen;">Maky</fontspan>]] ^{«[[User talk:Maky|<fontspan colorstyle="color:olive;">&nbsp;talk&nbsp;</fontspan>]]»}'''</span> 19:10, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

:::{{Ping|Maky}} Sorry for not having it sooner: we expected the conversation to move quicker than it is. We already have most of the partners lined up for a late July/early August release, and we expect Wiley to be among them. Sorry for building up hopes. In the meantime, we just announced both [[WP:AAAS|Science magazine]] and [[WP:Taylor & Francis]]'s biology collection which should help for your topical area; also, we have more accounts for [[WP:RSUK]]. [[User:Astinson (WMF)|Astinson (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Astinson (WMF)|talk]]) 19:20, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

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== Karger Publishers ==

# [[Karger Publishers]]: 80+ journals—For [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Primates|WikiProject Primates]], it would help to have access to ''[[Folia Primatologica]]''. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.1em 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: fantasy, cursive, Serif">'''–&nbsp;[[User:Maky|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkgreen;">Maky</fontspan>]] ^{«[[User talk:Maky|<fontspan colorstyle="color:olive;">&nbsp;talk&nbsp;</fontspan>]]»}'''</span> 09:09, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

== Westlaw and Lexis ==

[[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. [[User:Swatjester|<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">&rArr;</fontspan>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Euclid Fraktur;"><fontspan colorstyle="color:black;">SWAT</fontspan><fontspan colorstyle="color:goldenrod;">Jester</fontspan></fontspan>]] <small>^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!}</small> 01:51, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

#:Separately from the U.S. Federal and 50 State reported cases databases (that both WestLaw and Lexis have), also [[American Jurisprudence]] and [[Corpus Juris Secundum]], which are basically legal encyclopedias that provide the most bang-for-your-buck. [[User:Swatjester|<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">&rArr;</fontspan>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Euclid Fraktur;"><fontspan colorstyle="color:black;">SWAT</fontspan><fontspan colorstyle="color:goldenrod;">Jester</fontspan></fontspan>]] <small>^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!}</small> 01:56, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

#:As an alternative, Bloomberg Law would be nice: they have BNA products (good summaries of legal concepts), legal news sources, as well as the usual case reporters. —/[[User:Mendaliv|'''M'''<small>endaliv</small>]]/^{<small>[[User talk:Mendaliv|2¢]]</small>}/_{<small>[[Special:Contributions/Mendaliv|Δ's]]</small>}/ 05:33, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

#:: Hey {{Ping|Mendaliv|Swatjester}} we just opened up access [[WP:HeinOnline]] which includes a bunch of academic journals around law. Hopefully that is a good medium term solution: I am looking into Lexis and Westlaw in my next big outreach push. We have tried to contact Lexis before, but haven't found a good path. [[User:Sadads|Sadads]] ([[User talk:Sadads|talk]]) 22:40, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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# Losing general [[LexisNexis]] access is one of the worst parts of leaving grad school (For me, the business docs more than the legal stuff) –&nbsp;[[user:czar|<span style='font:bold small-caps 1.2em sans-serif;color:black'><u>czar</u></span>]] 06:54, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

#*{{Ping|Mendaliv|Swatjester|SMcCandlish|Czar}} The big [[WP:EBSCO]] donation has a lot of the kinds of material you are asking for here: we don't have Westlaw or LexisNexis happening anytime soon, hope that is a useful medium term solution, [[User:Astinson (WMF)|Astinson (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Astinson (WMF)|talk]]) 20:02, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

#::{{Ping|Astinson (WMF)}} I looked through and it has an impressive collection of journals, but it lacks the real meat of what a researcher needs -- the legal encyclopedias (American Jurisprudence and Corpus Juris Secundum), 50-state case law databases (which will be essentially non-existent outside Westlaw/Lexis), and the major, most well-known treatises (Nimmer on Copyright, Farnsworth on Contracts, McCarthy on Trademarks, etc.) or the various Restatements of the Law. Journals are great, but much of what they do is give me one particular law professor or student's opinion on some likely esoteric matter, as opposed to a substantive statement at a glance on what the differences are between jurisdictions on a particular area of law, and where to look to find the most relevant citations. So, if I want to improve articles on U.S. diplomacy from a legal standpoint, I'm better off with the Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, rather than the [https://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/ilr/index.cfm International Law Review]. [[User:Swatjester|<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">&rArr;</fontspan>]][[User_talk:Swatjester|<fontspan facestyle="font-family:Euclid Fraktur;"><fontspan colorstyle="color:black;">SWAT</fontspan><fontspan colorstyle="color:goldenrod;">Jester</fontspan></fontspan>]] <small>^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!}</small> 06:01, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

#:::As a policy analyst (among other things), I concur strongly. The 50-state DBs were crucial when I was doing that sort of work, and our current state of the 'pedia in this regard on most subjects it utterly awful. It tends to look like: In New York, a statute [citation here] says {{var|Foo}}. Alaska has a similar law.{{talkfact}} The Maryland state assembly was considering something like this in 2009. [the end]. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ </span> 17:04, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

#I endorse this wholeheartedly, even to the extent that I think the Wikipedia Foundation should purchase access. Although there are many free sources for case text, [[Lexis]]-Nexis offers the ability to &#8220;[[Shepardize]]&#8221; cases to see if they are still &#8220;good law,&#8221; and Westlaw offers a similar capability. An encyclopædia article on any court case would be incomplete ''at best'' unless it is &#8220;[[Shepardize]]d&#8221; to see, at a minimum, if the case is still &#8220;good law&#8221; or if, on the other hand, the outcome has subsequently been reversed. In a paper encyclopædia the omission of this step is excusable, but electronic encyclopædias such as Wikipedia should really offer the advantage of being up-to-date. This need is made particularly acute since both publishers have ended individual, credit-card-based access, and are offering their databases only to firms (companies and law firms) and institutions (libraries and schools) on a subscription basis. I used to use the credit-card based service, whereas the cost of an individual subscription is prohibitive (unless you are a lawyer, in which case failure to verify that cases relied-on are up-to-date may constitute [[legal malpractice]].) And you only need to subscribe either to Lexis or to Westlaw, not pay for both.

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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'' ([http://digital-library.usma.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16919coll3/id/22314/show/20585/rec/2 example]) was published at ten-year intervals and provided biographical data on graduates of USMA, including their [[United_States_Military_Academy#Cullum_number|Cullum number]]s. 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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/Active|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.

--<span style="background:#C2C2C2">[[User:Gaarmyvet|<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">'''Georgia Army Vet'''</fontspan> ]][[Special:Contributions/Gaarmyvet|<fontspan colorstyle="color:white;">''Contribs''</fontspan> ]][[User Talk:Gaarmyvet|<fontspan colorstyle="color:blue;">'''Talk'''</fontspan>]] </span> 18:13, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

:{{re|Gaarmyvet}} I'll look into this. [[User:Samwalton9 (WMF)|Samwalton9 (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Samwalton9 (WMF)|talk]]) 10:16, 22 June 2017 (UTC)