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On this page you'll find the Shared Resources, a list of information sources available to other Wikipedians. Everything is first ordered by type of document and in some cases there's a further division by subject.

Instructions & tips:

• The search function of your web browser can be really helpful when you're looking for a specific work or a specific subject in this list.
• Once you find a user with the resource you're looking for, contact that user on his/her talk page (or e-mail the person from their user page). Be as specific as possible when asking for information. The more specific your reference is the more likely you will get a helpful reply back.
• If you want to help the project, add your name under the resources you have access to, or add your own useful resources. Please provide as much detail as possible (version of the resource, storage form of the resource (paper, CD-ROM, online archive etc.)).
• What kind of resources can be added to this list? Everything ranging from peer review journals to works of fiction. Have a look at the contents overview and you'll get a good idea. Basically: anything that can be used as a source for Wikipedia.

Open access

• The Internet Archive provides full text search for millions of text and video resources; https://scholar.archive.org/ can be used for periodicals including academic journals.

Public

• Meta-list of Online Book Archives courtesy of U.Penn library
• Good access to around 50,000 electronic books and many peer-reviewed journals. Also live near to the world's largest document supply centre at the British Library. --Ian Pitchford 18:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• I have access to the Vatican Film Library here in St.Louis Missouri. It has microfilmed records of most of the works from the Vatican Library (the only such collection outside of the Vatican itself). --Elonka 20:42, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• German Wikipedians have access to loads of German, Austrian and Swiss libraries. --Flominator (talk) 13:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• WP:MHL —Ed (talk • contribs) 05:42, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• University of London library, British Library, any other library in London that is within Zone 1-6 and isn't too much hassle to get to! Also, JSTOR and other academic databases. –Tom Morris (talk) 23:12, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• I have access to the University of Liverpool's library including the Special Collections & Archives, drop me a message on my talk page if you find something you need. Samwalton9 (talk) 14:31, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• I have circulating access to essentially any public or academic library in the state of Minnesota in the United States. I can circulate books directly as a patron of the state flagship university library system and of the largest metropolitan public library system, and the efficient statewide interlibrary loan system gives me access to most other books in Minnesota. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 02:43, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Access to
  EBSCO, PubMed, and the Endicott College library (http://www.endicott.edu/Diane-Halle-Library.aspx). ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 22:28, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• I can access books from Toronto Reference Library and the University of Toronto Music Library but seldomly go to both. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:09, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• I have access to the
  EBSCO LGBT Life with Full Text database (coverage). (paul2520
  )
• I have access to the
  Bodliean Library, Radcliffe Science Library, and could, at a push, get into any college library. There is an open online catalogue here - SOLO. Basically, anything on there is fair game, but I do have work to do! ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 01:05, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• I have access to Gujarat Vidyapith library in Gujarat, India. It has extensive collection of India related books. --Gazal world (talk) 07:41, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• I have access to the
  ^(talk) 17:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• I have access to the Library of Congress general collections materials. User:Jonwilliamsl(talk|contribs) 11:56, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• I am a student at University of Maryland, College Park, so I have access to anything in UMD's libraries, and I can request inter-library loan, especially from other schools in the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) and/or the Big Ten Academic Alliance. You can search our catalog at https://umaryland.on.worldcat.org/, but make sure to check the availability. Solomon Ucko (talk) 03:07, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Private

• A large (150-200 books) private library (print) on the subject voyages of discovery. (Especially interesting Raymond John Howgego: Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 (2003).) - Andre Engels
• See here for my private library
  User:Secret/Library. Biographies, baseball and journalism history in particular, very strict with my sourcing. Secret ^account 07:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• I have a small library of sources related to Shakespeare (historical and biographical, the plays and poems) and a few on Shakespeare's contemporary peers (e.g. Kit Marlow) or Shakespeare's later biographers (e.g. Malone). I don't always have a lot of time for the 'pedia, so may not have the quickest turnaround, but feel free to ping me if you need to check anything in any of these works. --Xover (talk) 14:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• A small library of Japan related topics, mostly cultural/art/architecture history and literature. See here: User:Bamse/Resources. bamse (talk) 11:31, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• A library of 4000 mostly non fiction books. 400 on history, mostly ancient. 700 on Esoteric topics. 300 on religion, mostly paganism. 200 on philosophy, 700 on science fiction, especially golden age, 200 on psychology, 100 on computing. 50 dictionaries. A lot of rare volumes. Feel free to contact me
• My privately curated library on Wikipedia is here. It has about 40 books/articles yet, mostly on Kurdish, Armenian and Turkish politics, but all are accessible online.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 21:01, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Personal library covering (mostly British) architecture, railways, policing, civil engineering, bits of military history, and some other topics. See User:HJ Mitchell/Library for an incomplete list.
• Private library (2,300 books). I'm happy to scan within copyright restrictions, and so long as there are not too many requests! See User:Martin of Sheffield/Library for the top level catalogue.

Chambers's Encyclopaedia

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

Dictionary of American Biography

• The complete set of books, with 10 supplements. Many entries are somewhat outdated, but this is still useful for now-obscure people who have not attracted the attention of modern writers. —
  Myers 20:51, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]

Encyclopædia Britannica

• 1911 Edition: Iomesus 09:19, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Electronic access: Belgrader, Centrx, —No-One Jones ^(mail), Nk.sheridan, Tom Morris
• EB WebShare allows webpublishers to make articles available for free by linking to them. This can do: User:Historiograf
• 15th Edition (2010) : benzband

New International Encyclopedia

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

World Book Encyclopedia

• 2003 Edition. UberHalogen 20:17, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature

I have all six volume of Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature published by Sahitya Akademi. -Gazal world (talk) 05:25, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellaneous

• The Encyclopaedia of Southern Culture, a 1500+ page tome created by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Quaerere 23:03, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• The Usborne Internet linked Encyclopaedia of World History Thomas888b (talk)
• Groliers' The Book of History: A History of All Nations, A general reference work on World History until the time of its' publication. (pub. 1921) (Deyyaz)
• Coleman, Loren and Jerome Clark, Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Ness Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature, Simon & Schuster, 1999. (Deyyaz)
• Sternberg, Robert J., ed. (1995). Encyclopedia of human intelligence. Macmillan.
  OCLC 29594474. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 03:56, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• "(various)". Encyclopédie de l'art (in French). Librairie Générale Française. 1991. p. 1336.
  OCLC 25327309. (paul2520
  )
• Stout, Zaylore (2020). Our Gay History in Fifty States. Wise Ink.
  ISBN 978-1-63489-257-5. A general reference featuring LGBTQ+ individuals and history from all the US states. (paul2520
  )

• The Guinness Book of Records: 1973 (20th edition, UK). A bit iffy
• The Guinness Book of World Records
  :
  • 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005 editions. Neutrality
  • 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (soon) O₂ (息 • 吹)
  • 2007-2011 Thomas888b (talk)
  • 2014 A8v (talk)

• The Oxford English Dictionary
  • On cd-rom: fabiform
  • Online (with updates): DrBob, Centrx, —No-One Jones ^(mail), James Kemp, Nk.sheridan, User:Nancy, Tom Morris
• Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, by Joan Corominas and José Antonio Pascual, Editorial Gredos, 1987,
  ISBN 84-249-1362-0. Spanish etymology. Error
• Dicţionarul Etimologic al Limbii Române, by Alexandru Ciorănescu, Editura Saeculum I.O., Bucharest, 2005,
  ISBN 973-9399-86-X. Romanian etymology. Error
• Slanguage: A dictionary of Irish slang, new and expanded edition, Bernard Shar, Gill & Macmillan Ltd., 2003,
  ISBN 0-7171-3474-1. Hiberno-English slang. Error
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. (User:Nancy
  )
• Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Vol. 1, A - G (1994), and Vol. 2, H - O (1997). (Later volumes have not yet been published.) John M Baker (talk) 15:20, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

• Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd edition (User:Epa101
  )
• John C Wells (User:Epa101
  )
• Urban Voices (User:Epa101)

• 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]
• Nexis UK, NEROSCIENCEnetBASE, PubMed (not all full text), ScienceDirect, SCIAM, Academic Search Direct and some others. Nk.sheridan   Talk 23:54, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Access to the following databases: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, OCLC Firstsearch, CSA, SLED (database for Alaskans), JSTOR, and National Center for Biotechnology Information (Biomedical textbooks). l'aquatique || talk 09:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• ProQuest, JSTOR, and multiple other newspaper and journal databases. Cloveapple (talk) 05:50, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• EBSCOhost, JSTOR, LexisNexis, Project Muse, Web of Science, the ACM Digital Library, and many other online resources. InverseHypercube 01:14, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• JSTOR, ProjectMUSE, Springer Link, Oxford Journals, Oxford Electronic Enlightenment, Oxford Biblical Studies Online, Oxford English Dictionary, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, Routledge Online, Ingenta Connect/Blackwell, Wiley Online, Taylor & Francis/Informaworld, Cambridge Journals, Cambridge Histories Online, Science Direct, Palgrave Macmillan, Sage Journals, ProQuest, many others. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 02:05, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Access to most journals on JSTOR. Moswento (talk | contribs) 10:21, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Standard community library access to JSTOR (which is most of it) Nosebagbear (talk) 18:30, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

English language

• Nature (general-interest research journal)
  • Archives to 1997, premium content.
• New Scientist (weekly UK science magazine)
  • Access to internet archive, about 10 years worth: Smelialichu, Burgundavia
• Science News
  • Internet archive, back to April 25, 1996. Offline, archives back to 1966. --
    (talk) Contribs 05:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply
    ]
• The Economist
  • Access to archive and premium content. Piotrus
  • Access to archive and premium content. Franamax
• The
  Globe and Mail
  (Canadian newspaper)
  • Complete online archive —No-One Jones ^(mail)
• The
  New York Times
  (note: parts of the NYT internet archive is free access for everybody)
  • Online archives to 1999 —No-One Jones
  • Online archive 1851-present; subscription (same as Mukkakukaku)
    Talk 23:52, August 5, 2005 (UTC)^(mail)
  • Online archive 1851-present (paid subscription.) Limited to 100 articles per month or thereabouts for 1923–1986. --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû _(blah?) 10:36, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Online archive
  • Online archive 1851-Present, no limits. Jmajeremy (talk · contribs)
• The Times
  • Online archive 1785–1985 —No-One Jones ^(mail)
  • Access to online archive, including post-1985 articles. Moswento (talk | contribs) 10:22, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Present-day articles behind a paywall.
• Harper's Magazine
  • Access to online archives (1850-present). Franamax
• Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
  • Softcopy first 100 volumes (1883-2003) User:Shyamal Most available online on Biodiversity Heritage Library
  • Later issues. User:Shyamal
• Playboy magazine
  • I own a collection from the last ~20 years with a few issues farther back than that as my collection grows. Dismas|^(talk)
• Coin World (numismatics magazine)
  • Archives to November 2007 as part of a print subscription. Hoshie
• Transactions of the Newcomen Society & The International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
  • Access until January 2012. Would prefer to be told the article title and/or author as the database is not particularly well organised for pulling content otherwise. - Sitush (talk) 00:54, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Foreign Affairs
  • Access to database through paper subscription.Deyyaz ^{[ Talk | Contribs ]} 02:41, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Montreal Gazette
  • Unlimited online access Jmajeremy (talk · contribs)
• The Globe and Mail
  • Unlimited online access Jmajeremy (talk · contribs)
• Newsweek
  • Online access after 1966; offline access before 1966. ~ Rob^Talk 03:14, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Aviation Week & Space Technology (weekly US aerospace industry magazine)
  • online access + archive access since 1916 --Marc Lacoste (talk) 17:17, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

German language

• Der Spiegel (weekly newsmagazine)
  • Electronic access from 1986 to present (without pictures): Eloquence
  • CD-ROM archives 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001 (with pictures): Eloquence
• Konkret (monthly leftist magazine)
  • CD-ROM archives 1987-1996: Eloquence
• Taz
  (daily newspaper)
  • Electronic access from 1986 to present: Eloquence
• German news agencies
  • Various, electronic access from 1998 to present: Eloquence

French language

• Peer-reviewed journal databases: Érudit, Persée, Repère and Vente & Gestion. Just ask Jmajeremy (talk · contribs).

Chinese language

• public libraries in Hong Kong. Having an account there enables me to access to these resources. For more enquiries, feel free to ask me. --Spring Roll Conan ( Talk · Contributions ) 08:02, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply
  ]

• Helsingin Sanomat, full archives 1889–today. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 11:56, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Swedish language

• Access to an archive of most modern print newspapers. Hallandsposten and Göteborgs-Posten print and web articles including archives. Sydsvenskan and Dagens Nyheter online content. –AlexandraAVX (talk) 10:40, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Internet Archive text collection can be searched for millions of books; https://openlibrary.org/ can also be used for discovery.

Philosophy

• E.F. Schumacher, 1977 (ChrisG
  )
• Moral Politics, 2nd Edition, George Lakoff, 2002 (ChrisG
  )
• Oxford Companion to Philosophy (1995): Centrx
• A Theory of Justice, John Rawls, Harvard University Press, 1999, (User:Epa101)
• The World as Will and Representation, volumes 1 and 2, Dover Publications, 1966, (User:Epa101)
• The Dialectical Necessity of Morality, 1991, University of Chicago Press, (User:Epa101)
• Ethics: the big questions, edited by James Sterba, 1998, Wiley-Blackwell, (User:Epa101)