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Need archival documents for your research but can't make the trip? Want to streamline multiple research requests? Request scans directly through Sourcery’s web app! Local Sourcerers will visit the archive and return reference-quality scans. Any archive, any time.

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What can Sourcery do?

🧙‍♂️  Connect Researchers and Sourcerers
Everyone uses the same app to create requests and find jobs, and you can serve in both roles.

🪄 Transfer scans and payments
A secure way to return scans and compensate Sourcerers.

🏫  Benefit the holding institution
Partner institutions may choose to provide or receive scans.

Streamline and accelerate your research

Request materials at multiple repositories and manage them all in the same dashboard. No need to travel!

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Increase Research Avenues

Get materials from repositories and cities you may not be able to visit.

Ask once

Skip the email -- your request is available to all local Sourcerers looking for jobs.

Collect Materials Anytime

Gather your source material throughout the year so it's ready when you are.

Become a Sourcerer and make extra money

Put your specialized skills to work at your own convenience.

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Set Your Own Hours

Choose your jobs, make appointments, and head to the archives when it's best for you.

Make Extra Money

Each job guarantees $58 in your pocket with an estimated completion time of 2 hours.

Broaden Archival Experiences

See a variety of materials and explore new institutions.

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Researchers: streamline your research

For most archival researchers, it’s a familiar picture. You’ve placed requests for document scans to multiple institutions, and they all require different payments and methods of communication. Did you place that request via email? Or yet another online portal? I…

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Researchers: get critical documents

A surprisingly challenging step in the research process is the very first one: following the primary source leads you find while reviewing secondary literature. You may be excited to learn about a particularly intriguing letter cited by a scholar, only…

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Document Delivery VS Research Assistance

You’ve probably seen that Sourcery  is a “document delivery” app. But what does that mean? How does it compare with research assistance? And how does it influence how requests are submitted?  Document delivery simply refers to the act of retrieving…

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Sourcerers: How to Choose a Job

Deciding which jobs to choose can be an exciting prospect if you enjoy spending time in archives. Here are some suggestions for key items to pay attention to when selecting a job.  Interested in more resources? Our resident beta tester…

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Tips for Sourcerers from a Beta Tester

👂Have you heard? We’re recruiting Sourcery Ambassadors to help us expand to new cities across the United States! Are you a current or recently graduated MLIS/MS/MA/PhD student who is passionate about archival research and digital research tools? Learn more &…

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FAQs

Sourcery is available to researchers everywhere. You can currently request documents from archives in the Boston and New York City metropolitan areas. We plan to expand to more cities -- tell us where Sourcery should go next!