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Request documents through Sourcery

Need to see archival materials 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.

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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!

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.

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 payment to retrieve materials plus payment per scan returned.

Broaden Archival Experiences

See a variety of materials and explore new institutions.

Check Out Our Blog

Completing Your First Sourcery Job

Completing your first Sourcery job might seem daunting at first. Use this guide to help you break down the steps and make the process as easy and painless as possible!   ➡️ You can view each step with more details through…

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Sourcery @ New England Archivists Spring 2026

Spring has (finally!) sprung, and with it we at Sourcery are setting our sights on institutional accounts! We spent the weekend at the New England Archivists’ Spring 2026 conference in Portland, Maine discussing how institutions fulfill scan requests for distant…

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Doing Spring Break Research? Think Sourcery!

Spring is for research planning! Now is the best time to explore archival collections so you can plan the most effective research trip, or to collect the archival sources you’ll need for some focused writing time over the summer. Get…

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Major Sourcery Updates: March 2026

The Sourcery Team is pleased to announce 4 major updates to Sourcery to kickoff 2026!   We’ll chat about each change more in-depth in this blog post, but here are the main beats:  Let’s look at each of these changes in…

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Requesting your first scans

Getting scans through Sourcery is super easy! Once you determine what you want scanned and where it is, the process of creating a request is simple. Let’s take a look at what you’ll need to know. Where the materials are:…

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FAQs

Sourcery is available to researchers everywhere. You can request scans from archives in more than 35 cities across the United States. Don't see the location you need? Tell us where Sourcery should go next!

Want to create scans? Make an account and suggest a new location.