Wikipedia:Newspapers and magazines request service

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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 the resulting articles are copyrighted; you are not allowed to publish them, pass them on, use them for commercial purposes or use them verbatim for Wikipedia articles. Access to databases is for personal research only.

Contents 1 Instructions 1.1 Direct contact 2 Databases 3 New requests 4 Filled requests 4.1 Constance Holme 4.2 Heavy Fog In Channel: Continent Cut Off! 4.3 Vigenère_cipher#History 4.4 "Leopold Lorraine" 4.5 Journal of Popular culture 4.6 Igala 4.7 Sultana (steamboat) 4.8 Wikipedia cited in the courts 4.9 various articles 5 See also

[edit] Instructions

To request a search in one of these databases, start a new section under Requests and leave your email address. Request specific titles, dates, or a combination of keywords; you may specify which database to search in.

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.

[edit] Direct contact

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

• Lotsofissues AOL:Lotsofissues1
• brassratgirl -- 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.

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

[edit] Databases

A sampling of the databases that are available:

• LexisNexis, a closed subscription database, provides the entire archives from 10-25 years of nearly all newspapers in the United States (New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, etc.), major English language papers from the rest of the world (Financial Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Toronto Star, etc.), wire services (Associated Press, etc.), an incomplete inventory of magazines (includes Economist, Newsweek, US News and World Report, etc.), information about businesses, as well as decisions by U.S. courts.
• ProQuest's Historical New York Times (1851-2002), Historical Wall Street Journal (1889-present), and Historical Los Angeles Times (1881-present) database allows for full-text search of these paper's archives. Results are scanned articles in PDF format.
• EBSCO's Academic Search Premier with some 4,500 full-text scientific journals.
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• America's Newspapers historical archive and publications available through Newsbank
• Various historical journal archives: JSTOR, The Royal Society journal archives, Nature and Science, etc.
• Science and engineering databases: IEEE, ACM's digital library, Compendex, Web of Science, etc.
• various sources of chemical property information.
• various humanities, social science and agriculture databases
• various sources for literary biography

[edit] New requests

Please add new requests in 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).

[edit] Filled requests

These requests have been addressed; additional information may be welcome. Archive this page if it gets too long.

[edit] Constance Holme

I would like to improve the article on the author Constance Holme (as well as just increasing my own knowledge about her). I am aware of this and this article - either of those, or anything else you can find, would be hugely appreciated. She died July 1955 - any newspaper obituaries, perhaps? Contact me via "Email this user" and I will send an email address you can use for attachments. Thanks in advance. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 12:02, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I can't imagine there's a text search this far back, but on the off-chance, there should be an editorial comment about her in the Saturday Review, 22 January 1938, followed by some responses in the letters column on 19 February 1938. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 12:09, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I don't have access to either of the two articles you linked to, but I did find some other articles and some biographies. (You could probably request those other two articles through your local library's interlibrary loan service). I'm sending you an email. phoebe 19:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heavy Fog In Channel: Continent Cut Off!

Is it possible someone from here could verify that on the 22nd October 1957 The Times had a headline on the front page:

"Heavy Fog In Channel Continent Cut Off!" Just let me know on my talk page or here, ta. Steve block talk 13:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Times archives don't go back that far. I tried newer databases to no avail. Lotsofissues 14:13, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

This is an old chestnut that can be traced at least to 1932, but it's doubtful whether there ever actually was such a headline. Raveriz 15:37, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Must be quite a trick, being able to trace a 1957 headline back to 1932! Are you sure it doesn't go back to Nostradamus? Gene Nygaard 01:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure you don't need to adjust the screws on your head if you have problems comprehending the simplest things? Draagyn 01:20, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure you've review our personal attack and civility policies? --maru (talk) contribs 05:05, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vigenère_cipher#History

• What luck. I was going to ask for a reference at WP:RD and happened to find my way here. I'm looking for a reference (author name, month, edition etc.) and perhaps an extended quote for Vigenère_cipher#History. What I know is that the quote about the cipher says it's "impossible of translation" and it was printed in 1917 in Scientific American. I'm not sure a searchable database exists for SA that far back though <sadly I don't think SA is in any of the databses listed above, but it's worth a shot>... I used to have access to a University library (actually I had two such accounts) where they had hard copies of nearly every SA, but both of my accounts are now disabled (*cries*) Broken S 17:46, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Working on it, but there's hardly any full-text searching that far back. Got any idea of authors, titles, etc? Brassratgirl 03:37, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
    • It looks like you have bad luck -- there actually is full text online of historical SA... until 1908. Then it stops. I'll check the print indexes for you later this week though, see if I can dig anything up.
      • Okay, Thanks for trying. I wouldn't put out too much effort though, it's not vital, just useful (it's on the articles to-do list, which is why I asked). I don't know the author or anything (that's part of what I want to know). Sorry. Broken S 13:24, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Leopold Lorraine"

Searching for 1958 obituary or other info to expand this entry from Imperial_Crypt_Vaults#Within_the_southwest_pier:

91 (Urn containing the cremated remains of) Archduke Leopold Maria Alphons Blanka Karl Anton Beatrix Michael Joseph Peter Ignatz (Agram 30 January 1897 - Mansfield, Connecticut 14 March 1958) →Family Tree Second son of Archduke Leopold Salvator.132 Naturalized in the USA as Leopold Lorraine in 1953. Died at 61. Married morganatically.

Not anxious to post my e-mail address here, may I suggest that on my User Page you can send me an e-mail via the "E-mail this user" tool, to which I will reply with the e-mail address to which results should be sent.--StanZegel (talk) 04:11, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Give us some hints! or some context, anyway. Do you know where this person died, for instance? Brassratgirl 07:27, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

There's an article in the New York Times, March 15, 1958, "Leopold Habsburg Lorraine Dead at 61; Austrian Archduke Became U.S. Citizen". It says he died in Willimantic, Connecticut. Qero 11:02, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

The quote I gave above shows that he died on 14 March 1958 in Mansfield, CT. Now Qero has found something substantiating that with a variant place of death, which is understandable. Good! I think that would be an article that contains useful information. --StanZegel (talk) 15:38, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't see the Mansfield, CT reference the first time :) Brassratgirl 05:07, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

No problem. If you'll send me an e-mail, per above, I'll reply with the address to which the article should be sent. --StanZegel (talk) 18:38, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Journal of Popular culture

Abbott, Laurence L. Comic Art: Characteristics And Potentialities Of A Narrative Medium, JPC 19:4 (Spring 1986). could you email to block.stephen@gmail.com if you can get it please? Steve block talk 15:52, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Our library has JPC full-text only from 1990 onwards, sorry. AxelBoldt 04:22, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Okay. Do you happen to have access to the International Journal of Comic Art? Steve block talk 10:22, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Our library doesn't, maybe the others can help. AxelBoldt 16:59, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

I sent you the JPC article; I don't have access to the International Journal of Comic Art either. Brassratgirl 22:04, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Brilliant, ta. Steve block talk 22:14, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Igala

On Branniac they have an article. Its the first one if you type Igala into the search box. (The little blurb they let you read to torture you had information not in the article!) Please send to Banana04131@aol.com. Thankyou so very much! This project is going to be very useful if people use it! Banana04131 02:10, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

What is Branniac? In which journal did your Igala article appear? AxelBoldt 04:19, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

I sent the Britannica article to you -- if that is what you meant. Lotsofissues 04:35, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

lol thanks Banana04131 16:39, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Everytime I put the url in the address bar and try to read the article, I get a message saying they were unable to authenticate my access and ask me to log in again. Am I doing anything wrong? Banana04131 16:47, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

I suspect then Britannica added an extra layer of protection to keep unsubscribed eyes from taking a free lunch.  :-( Lotsofissues 11:07, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

The email from Britannica contains a link that requires an account, but it also has the article itself attached as an HTML file. Your email program should be able to save the attachment and then you can read it with a web browser. AxelBoldt 16:59, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sultana (steamboat)

Can someone help with a literature search, to get some authoritative refs for article Sultana (steamboat). I am suspicious that the fatalities stated as 1,700 are exaggerated newspaper accounts of the day. TIA. mervyn 11:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• "LAFAYETTE GITHENS" New York Times, Jan 23, 1933. p. 13. Short note that reports on the death of the last survivor of the disaster. The article states that the ship carried 1700 people of which more than 1450 died.
• "Heavy Loss Aboard Bennington Not the Navy's Worst Disaster", New York Times May 27, 1954. p. 16. Also mentions 1450 dead; doesn't mention total number of passengers.
• "Civil War Hull Is Reported Found", New York Times Jul 7, 1982. Reports on the finding of the ship's wreck (which definitely should be mentioned in our article). The numbers given: 2200 people on board, over 1500 died.

These are the only mentionings of the Sultana disaster that I can find in the New York Times since 1930. I can email them to you. AxelBoldt 17:46, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, please email to me. A follow up question for those in libraries is, are there any recent scholarly articles on the incident? Thanks, mervyn 13:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I need your email address. AxelBoldt 18:20, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, the three articles above are "in the mail". I also found 'A Tremendous Tumult and Uproar' by GE Salecker, America's Civil War; May2002, Vol. 15 Issue 2. This looks pretty good, though it's probably not exactly peer-reviewd quality. It's all about the Sultana. I sent it to you as well. The documents should be attached to the emails. AxelBoldt 16:16, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

And a bit more for you: there's a book "Disaster on the Mississippi", also by Salecker, that you should be able to get via inter-library loan. Plus here's a National Geographic news article. Cheers, AxelBoldt 16:27, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia cited in the courts

Can anyone who has access to Lexus Nexis or some legal database please look up the cases specified at: http://www.internetcases.com/archives/2005/12/wikipedia_and_t_1.html If you send me the details, I'd like to add them to Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a court source. My email is on my user page. Thanks! Samw 01:16, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I emailed all of them to you today. AxelBoldt 20:32, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks, I've added them to Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a court source. However, can you also look for English Mountain Spring Water Co. v. Chumley, 2005 WL 2756072 (Tenn.Ct.App., October 25, 2005).? This case comments negatively on Wikipedia. Thanks! Samw 03:56, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

It's in the mail. This decision is almost as exciting as some of the discussions around here: "Is water a beverage?" AxelBoldt 20:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I've added it to Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a court source. Yes, it's pretty dry, but it's nice to see the courts debating the mertis of Wikipeida. Thanks for sending the info.

FYI, for everyone, I've archived the Lexis Nexis results in my gmail accound to if anyone wants to see the original, they can contact me as well. Samw 22:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

It´s PD, so you can post it. --Lotsofissues 17:47, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] various articles

The articles requested are the following :
*La Paloma's Eclipse Is Not Expected to Remain Total THOMAS K. ARNOLD; Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext); May 8, 1989; 1;

• LA PALOMA: Grand Lady of Encinitas Built to Last, Grand Old Lady Is Still Part of Show

EDITH H. FINE; Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext); Nov 29, 1985; 32;

• Built to Last, Encinitas' Grand Lady Part of Show

EDITH H. FINE; Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext); Nov 21, 1985; 1;

• It may be witchcraft, but it's not strictly taboo. The Financial Post (Toronto, Canada) - 3/2/1995
  
• When buying dips can go awry; [1 Edition] David Wallace. The Herald. Glasgow (UK): Jun 3, 2000. pg. 20
• Claim of mistake exposes conversations to discovery; Federal Discovery News - 4/16/2004

Thanks
trade2tradewell (at) yahoo (dot) com - Replace "at" with "@", and "(dot)" with "."
Trade2tradewell 16:42, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

These have all been sent -- phoebe 19:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Research resources, a list of commercial databases and Wikipedians that have access to them