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Request archival scans 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.

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Creating Scans for Sourcery: A Step-by-Step Guide

Use this quick reference guide to help you create scans for fulfilling Sourcery requests! See “More Resources” for a more detailed guide as well as links to other Sourcerer resources.  First, a refresher on “reference quality:”  Remember that Sourcery is…

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Schedule a one-on-one with a Sourcery team member

Are you wondering how Sourcery can be of use to you? Want to learn more about becoming a Sourcerer and getting paid to fulfill requests? Schedule a 1:1 meeting with a member of the Sourcery team to ask your burning…

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Become a Sourcerer!

Signing up to be a Sourcerer is an easy and intuitive process, but what does being a Sourcerer actually entail? Read on for a detailed description of the duties, responsibilities, and required skills associated with being a Sourcerer. Responsibilities Requirements…

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Sourcery @ OAH: Everything you need to get started as a Sourcerer

Sourcery spent this past weekend in Philadelphia at the Organization of American Historians annual conference and answered many questions about getting started as a Sourcerer. So, we created this short guide to help recent conference attendees and new Sourcerers get…

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Place Sourcery Requests From Anywhere in the World

Good news: You don’t have to be in the United States to use Sourcery! From anywhere in the world you can place a request for scans of archival materials that are located in over 40 active locations across the U.S.!…

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FAQs

Sourcery is available to researchers everywhere. You can request scans from archives in more than 50 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.