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The WMF is working to secure JSTOR access for Misplaced Pages contributors, either through a site license (preferred) or through a small number of individual subscriptions. (Details and discussion here) This is a signup page for people who would like access to JSTOR.

Before you post a request here, please check this list to see whether you already have access to JSTOR through your local public library or educational institution. Far more editors are permitted such access than are aware of it. You may also find you have access to other archival databases through your public library, as well, such as ProQuest NewsStand and InfoTrac, although you would need to contact your library to make that determination.

In the event that a site license cannot be secured and individual subscriptions will be used, to the greatest extent possible these will be assigned on the basis of need and merit. Please note in your request how you would use the subscription.

Bear in mind that a full site license, if it does happen, will take some time to implement. So please be patient with us.

Contacts: user:Raul654 or User:Steven (WMF)

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1. For further featured material (articles/lists) and no, I have no access to JSTOR material. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:53, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
2. For featured and good articles as well as filling out current coverage. I only have access to JSTOR material through an hour or so drive to a university. At the price of gas now, that's $40 or so a trip. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:56, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
3. For featured articles. I have no access to JSTOR, and have missed it sorely in the past. --Noleander (talk) 17:59, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
4. For work primarily on Mesoamerican articles, both GAs and FAs and adding new content generally. I have no JSTOR access and it is a constant frustration. Simon Burchell (talk) 18:02, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
5. I do not have access to the JSTOR site. But a fellow editor (will disclose name to contacts if requested) was gracious enough to mail me the PDFs I requested, which he told me he acquired through a professor he knew. I Googled jstor domain to find links which I appear to be useful from the abstract or name and mail it to him. The process took about 3 weeks due to non-availability of his friend professor. I contribute to FAs, GAs and DYKs generally realated to Hinduism and India. --Redtigerxyz 18:06, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
6. I don't have JSTOR access. I would use it for reviewing and writing if I had it. - Dank (push to talk) 18:39, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
7. I do not have access to the JSTOR site. But the extracts I've found have been extremely useful to my articles and I've lost count of how many times I've wished I could access it fully as a resource. I'd love for it to be available to all wikipedia editors and believe it would be invaluable for anybody who requests it in article writing. I would use it for a whole diversity of articles. Today I wished to read the entire article it had on Salomon Schweigger which if I had been able to access it no doubt the article would be more comprehensive.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:17, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
8. Yes please. I was doing an article just now where a paper in JSTOR clearly had an article full of relevant information. I often get that. Frustrating. Wish I could see the papers. I start a lot of articles (over 2,000 so far) often on academic topics and have no library access. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:32, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
9. I would love to have JSTOR to help me write Good and Featured articles. I have often bumped up against the lack of access. Binksternet (talk) 20:35, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
10. My featured articles often require me to beg and borrow JSTOR access from all and sundry (my college doesn't remember me so it's daughter's university, friendly fellow-editors etc). I'd give a lot for my own direct access, especially to music journals. Brianboulton (talk) 20:38, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
11. I don't have access to JSTOR; my article writing has fallen off as of late - access to JSTOR as a resource will help...Modernist (talk) 20:56, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
12. Editor since 2007. Write FA and GA quality articles with a technical leaning. JSTOR is good for papers on the history of technology, and I have frequently found the need for JSTOR retrievals, but have no access except through others. If I had access myself it would speed the process up no end and would encourage the retrieval of not-so-obvious sources. If I am given an account, I undertake to make myself available at WP:LIBRARY for the benefit of others. SpinningSpark 21:08, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
13. I have no direct access to JSTOR and am frequently frustrated when google throws up juicy-looking first pages of articles on my major interests, opera and architecture, e.g. this one, discovered today, on a leading music critic with a rather short WP article. --GuillaumeTell 21:15, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
14. I have no access to JSTOR and have to go through Misplaced Pages's resource exchange when I need an article, and although people are always extremely helpful there, it's only fair to use the service judiciously. It would be wonderful to have full access, particularly in the areas of history and politics. I've been editing for over seven years, and focus mainly on writing content (creating and improving), including 10 featured articles. SlimVirgin 22:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
15. I had access to JSTOR through my University, but I haven't been a student in almost a year because of illness concerns, so I longer have access. JSTOR can be extremely useful for some of the historical journals they have of harder to get biographies. If I go back to studies, I will disactivate the JSTOR account so another editor can use it. Secret 23:01, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
16. No JSTOR access, which would be extremely useful for my work on art history articles. Johnbod (talk) 00:02, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
17. Editor since 2007, sysop since 2009, >400 DYK articles, created >2,000 articles. I'm also a Teahouse host and we're collaborating with new editors on their AfCs. I've been an Online Ambassador, but not this semester, because of my Teahouse commitment. I don't have access to JSTOR and it would be extremely helpful in so far as the articles I work on would be more comprehensive. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:33, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
18. Over 7 years on the English Misplaced Pages with over 40,000 edits; I do not have access to JSTOR, and would use it to find reliable sources for music and literature related articles. —Bruce1ee 05:11, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
19. editor since 2003, 30+ FAs, lack of journal access a continual problem, makes FAC so much harder Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:45, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
20. Editor since 2006 (47,000 edits) Access needed for my work on arts related and women's history articles . It's very frustrating that Jstor doesn't allow individual subscription at the moment and I have no institutional access. Voceditenore (talk) 08:35, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
21. Editor since 2005 with over 60,000 edits; I have no access to JSTOR and would like to use one for history and politics articles. –HTD 19:25, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
22. Since joining, I have spent a small fortune on books and for access to papers for Virus-related and other articles. The quality of my contributions would be enhanced if I had access. Graham Colm (talk) 17:19, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
23. Editor since 2006, 40,000 edits in en:WP, 5,000 in de:WP, 2 FAs, 3 GAs in en:WP. Have come up against that paywall many times when researching articles.--JN466 00:57, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
24. I borrow Jstor access (which I keep to a minimum) but prefer not to. I have no access myself through a university or local library. It's almost a necessity for literature related pages. Truthkeeper (talk) 01:51, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
25. Editor since 2005, 19K edits in English Misplaced Pages and 8K edits in Commons. I have no access to JSTOR, and it would be very valuable for work on 16th-19th century artists, textiles, fashion, tapestry, and biographies of Tudor and Elizabethan people. - PKM (talk) 02:38, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
26. I have no access to JSTOR or any similar resource. Having it would expand my research horizons for natural disaster, meteorology, coastal sciences, and geography related topics, which are my main fields of interest on Misplaced Pages and in real life. I've been editing for four or five years and have contributed to (written, mostly) at least 40 pieces of featured content (not including pictures etc.) and around 100 GAs. Juliancolton (talk) 03:23, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
27. Editor since 2007, 12,000+ edits including 1FA, 2GA, many references added to existing articles, primarily (but not exclusively) on bird-related topics. Other than abstracts, I have no access to JSTOR's articles — which would be very useful!. MeegsC | Talk 03:55, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
28. Editor since 2008, 10k edits, 7 GAs. I've got my eye on a few series of articles, primarily food and drink, which I've already started working on and hope to progress this year. I do currently have limited JSTOR access through my girlfriend, though that runs out at the end of the month, after which I will have no access. Whilst I would find this very useful, depending on the limitations, please put me lower down the list, as some of the above (and I expect below) are exceptionally good editors who should get it before me. Worm · (talk) 08:11, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
29. Active in content creation and improvement for 5+ years now. No current access to JSTOR which routinely obstructs my searches for references. Warden (talk) 10:50, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
30. JSTOR might be the best access that could be provided for those who are looking to reference high quality articles. Four years, 18,000 edits, 3 GAs, 280 article created — all with high quality references (many from JSTOR, requested from other editors, since I have no access). Articles I've created include two on academic journals that are part of a JSTOR subscription: Willdenowia and Kew Bulletin :-). First Light (talk) 15:26, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
31. Editor since 2009; I would be very appreciative of JSTOR access for my source reviewing for FAC. Eisfbnore  16:40, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
32. Check out my userpage, particularly "significant contributions" and the dozens of FAs and GAs. I could make very good use of JSTOR access. Parrot of Doom 19:10, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
33. Long time editor and admin; especially interested in JSTOR access for astronomy, technology and general sciences. Loved having it when I was at university in years past. — Huntster (t @ c) 22:58, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
34. I work with a lot of WP:FRINGE articles and many of these topics are difficult to source. A lot of the time we have to use substandard WP:PARITY sources to counter fringe claims and it's possible that higher quality sources would exist in JSTOR. I am not sure if my campus offers access. SÆdon 23:56, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
35. I write about ancient Egyptian religion (one FA and one GA so far, with plans for many more), and the handful of archaeological journals on JSTOR were a major help to my work. I should not be a high priority—I collected hundreds of articles in 2010 and early 2011, when I had access—but what I'm working on will take a long time, and JSTOR access sometime down the road would help me keep up with developments in Egyptology. A. Parrot (talk) 03:07, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
36. I have been active since May 2011, and became the author of one good article, coal ball. A large number of the sources in that article are from JSTOR. My lack of access has been frustrating, causing me to ask many people for journal articles. I would like to stop wasting their time, but still have high quality sources to use. →Στc. 03:31, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
37. I've never had JSTOR access (since graduated but my uni never offered it), yet would love to tackle more academic-based articles; part of the reason I stick to sports is that more important figures require sources such as this. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 05:23, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
38. I do not have currently JSTOR access and would greatly appreciate the access to sources to include in the articles I work on. I've created over 90 articles here so far, including 1 GA and 36 DYKs. I have many more on my to-do list to write, and access to additional sources would be of great help. 28bytes (talk) 05:34, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
39. I do not have JSTOR access. I have about 45k edits, mainly in article creation and expansion in the field of biology, history and biography. Maias (talk) 06:34, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
40. Please please please JSTOR access! I've been a Misplaced Pages editor since 2005, have written or expanded about 500 Misplaced Pages articles, especially in the area of medieval history, and am constantly running into the JSTOR roadblock. Whenever I'm talking to a friend in academia, I almost immediately start groveling for JSTOR help. Which is especially ironic because I may be writing about the topic more than they are! I was recently at an academic conference full of PhDs, and I held my own in my topic area, even though I was only "Independent Scholar" on my nametag, and not associated with a university. I run into the "JSTOR only" roadblock several times a week, and am really tired of having to beg friends to logon for me. So yes, if there's a way I could get JSTOR access, sign me up! --Elonka 20:42, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
41. I do not have access to JSTOR. I have created 67 articles on ancient Mesopotamian subjects (an area greatly neglected on Misplaced Pages) and expanded from stub status approximately the same number again, but all these articles could be significantly improved with information gleaned from this source. If access is limited, I could provide a wishlist of specific articles for someone else to obtain and forward.BigEars42 (talk) 09:57, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
42. I do not have access at present; this would help me contribute to public policy and Middle East topics. Neotarf (talk) 18:59, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
43. This would be huge for me. In the last eight years, but mainly from 2004 to 2007, I've written several hundred articles on music before 1600, and at least half of the good material for improving them further is only available through JSTOR. I have about 100,000 edits, eight years total on the project, and over 600 articles more or less from scratch, and I've been an admin since 2005. It's very frustrating being an "Independent Scholar"; if JSTOR allowed individual subscriptions I would have bought one years ago. Antandrus (talk) 21:13, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
44. I do not have access to JSTOR. I work a lot on Victorian biographies, and have ODNB access: it would be helpful to supplement that with JSTOR access to follow up some of the citations in ODNB. Cusop Dingle (talk) 21:22, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
45. - I'm an autoreviewer on the English WIkipedia and I have written several articles relating to Military history and this is a topic that JSTOR could help me a lot with. I no longer have access to Credo Reference because I forgot my password and no longer have access to the email I used with Credo to retrieve it. --Ceradon _contribs 02:25, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
46. I do not have access to JSTOR, but from the bit and pieces I have seen I believe will help greatly improve wikipedia. For filling out articles and finding references for de-Orphaning, I've found getting refs quite often helps to fill out orphans and to find how they should be wiki linked to other articles. Blackash have a chat 06:36, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
47. JSTOR will improve the reliability of Misplaced Pages, and will provide ASTOR with free advertisement. User:Prosa100
48. I'd definitely find it very useful in editing articles about mediæval European history and European imperialism. The preponderence of paywalled articles in these areas is very frustrating. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OwenBlacker (talk • contribs)
49. No current access and would find it very useful, especially for articles related to Scottish history, archaeology, natural history and geology. It's especially frustrating not to be able to expand material in short articles/sections where the existing citation is paywalled and detailed material from elsewhere is hard/impossible to find. Ben MacDui 07:07, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
50. Account since 2004, active since 2006, ~20k edits. Active in content development, particularly around WikiProject Ireland and in British/Irish areas in general. Verification and understanding of particularly complex and nuanced POV issues is a essential in the main area of my contributions. Access to a library of high-quality (and broad ranging) references such as JSTOR would be an enormous contribution to this area. I would be willing to act on behalf of others (i.e. respond to requests) in sourcing and verifying, if granted access. I don't have current access to JSTOR. --RA (talk) 11:37, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
51. I have access to jstor but only by communiting more than an hour to the closest university. JSTOR access is essential for the history articles I usually contribute and a basic source of specialized references. I use it extensively but getting hold of the necessary articles is a nuisance. Some sort of VPN access to a "trusted site" or accounts would definitely help me spped up the process of collecting references.Rowanwindwhistler (talk) 21:35, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
52. I have partial access to JSTOR (science) but that does not include the Irish Studies which would help me in the area of Irish history. I am mainly active at de-wp where I have written c. 100 articles including several with GA status (22.000+ edits in all projects since 2005). Currently, I am ordering these journal articles through interlibrary loans which in case of more obscure Irish journals can take over a month to be delivered. --AFBorchert (talk) 21:47, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
53. My JSTOR access is linked to my university for employment-related tasks, not for Misplaced Pages, and the diversion of public resources for private pursuits is anathema in Sweden. Furthermore, many journals covering American politics/culture and music, on which I have written many articles in the last year, are not included in Swedish university JSTOR subscriptions.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:50, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
54. I've been editing since 2006, have about 140,000 edits, and my focus is on editing medical articles, which typically requires access to full text of journal articles. Along with resigning as FAC delegate so I could focus more on medical articles, I also have recently relocated and have no access to a medical library or to any journal databases. I have also recently begun new page patrolling of medical articles, and while I often encounter what looks like copyvio, I'm unable to doublecheck journal articles. I'd appreciate being considered for this access. Thanks! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:14, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
55. I don't have JSTOR access. If I had it I would use it for reviewing and writing new articles. I've contributed mostly to German Misplaced Pages since 2005 (some 14,000 edits to this day).--Aschmidt (talk) 21:48, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
56. I don't have JSTOR access but I'm really interested in it. I'm an user and administrator of the German Misplaced Pages. I would use the access for reviewing and writing articles. I've contributed 42,000 edits and 557 articles since 2006. My interests are mainly in pop culture, criminal history and some historical themes. --Gripweed (talk) 22:20, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
57. I have not had access to JSTOR since leaving University in 2008, and would find access to it invaluable for checking references in existing Misplaced Pages articles. I'm an admin in the English Misplaced Pages with 90,000 edits. I contribute articles mostly on New Zealand topics but I fact check on a wide range of articles.-gadfium 04:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
58. I don't have JSTOR access. I've been editing since 2007, have 40,000-odd edits, and am working on astronomy-related articles for the time being, and science articles in general. Having JSTOR would be invaluable for finding difficult sources. Keilana| 04:16, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
59. I don't have JSTOR access. Editor in de-wp since 2007, 2 FAs, some 70 new articles with a focus on language and social history. Also editing on help and request pages. --Aalfons (talk) 08:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
60. I don't have JSTOR access. Editor since 2004, mainly on history and biography of technology articles. Over 1500 edits. Apwoolrich (talk) 09:19, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
61. Editing since 2004, 100K+ edits. Focus on science articles, especially geology and geography. No access to JSTOR - retired and live out in the boonies. Vsmith (talk) 17:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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