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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!

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Increase Research Avenues

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

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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 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

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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Integrate Sourcery into your workflow

Sourcery integrates easily into your research workflow, no matter how you collect and review digital scans of archival materials. Sourcery is simply a new way to acquire scans of archival materials. For example, you may already download digital copies of archival…

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Reference Quality v. Digitization Quality

You might have seen it mentioned throughout the website and other Sourcery channels that we offer “reference quality” scans and not “digitization quality” scans. But what does that mean, in practice?  Digitizing materials is a long process that can get…

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Sourcery’s 2026 Roadmap

It’s the beginning of the year and we’re raring to go! We’re expanding quickly, with more cities available each month. And we have some major Sourcery developments coming in 2026. Here’s what’s in store for the next six months:  This Winter we…

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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.