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Welcome to our brand new blog and newsletter.

Welcome to the Sourcery blog and newsletter. The Sourcery team has spent the last two years working with our archivist partners to build an online workflow and mobile application that will make it easier to field and fill researcher requests for reference scans. We are now ready to make this software more widely available both to the archivists who field requests and the researchers who place them, and we will be embarking on a major outreach campaign to reach them. This will be a place where both groups of users can learn more about our efforts. Please check this space or hit “subscribe now” below for regular updates.

Sourcery aims to improve how researchers request document scans from archivists and how archivists fulfill those requests. For archivists, Sourcery provides archivists a streamlined, cross-platform (mobile, tablet, or laptop) reference scanning workflow, including tools to: help clarify, categorize, staff, and track outstanding requests; and manage researcher communication. For researchers, Sourcery aims to provide a single, simple interface for requesting remote access to not-yet digitized documents at repositories around the world. With Sourcery on a phone or laptop, a researcher seeking a document can simply enter the document’s location and citation information and receive a scan directly from within the app. Sourcery is built and maintained by researchers at the University of Connecticut’s Greenhouse Studios and operated as an open source software project by Digital Scholar, a not-for-profit corporation

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