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Sourcery for the Oral Historian

By Amanda Breeden | October 20, 2025

Sourcery went on the road this past week to the Oral History Association’s Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia! While Sourcery does not currently support video or audio files to be sent or received through the app, we can still aid…

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Sourcery Tutorials

By Amanda Breeden | October 13, 2025

Need a little help getting started in Sourcery? Well, agonize no longer! In this blog post you can find tutorials on how to place a request, claim a job, and complete a job. Let’s get to it! ⚠️CAUTION: this blog…

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Sourcery Pricing Part 2: Cost Comparisons

By Amanda Breeden | October 7, 2025

⚠️ CAUTION: this blog post might contain outdated information regarding Sourcery request costs or payouts. For more recent updates, visit https://sourceryapp.org/2026/03/02/new-sourcery-updates-march-2026/ ⚠️ Now that we have some context for why Sourcery requests in Boston and New York cost $65 (which,…

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How Researchers Can Access Historical Documents Faster!

By Mohammad Edalati.T | September 28, 2025

⚠️ CAUTION: this blog post might contain outdated information regarding Sourcery request costs or payouts. For more recent updates, visit https://sourceryapp.org/2026/03/02/new-sourcery-updates-march-2026/ ⚠️ Archival research is the foundation of historical and social inquiry. Primary sources, from government papers and organizational records…

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Sourcery Research Ambassador: Meet Maddie!

By Amanda Breeden | September 23, 2025

👂Have you heard? We’re recruiting 5 Sourcery Research Ambassadors to help us test new features and expand into the Washington, DC metro area! If you’re a humanities researcher and are in need of archival materials from Washington, DC-based repositories, apply…

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Join Our Team!

By Amanda Breeden | September 17, 2025

Help Sourcery get better and get paid doing it! We’re currently recruiting for two positions: Are you an early career archivist or librarian? A current MLS/PhD/MS/MA student or recent graduate? Or maybe just passionate about archives, libraries, and the digital…

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Why $65?

By Amanda Breeden | September 15, 2025

⚠️ CAUTION: this blog post might contain outdated information regarding Sourcery request costs or payouts. For more recent updates, visit https://sourceryapp.org/2026/03/02/new-sourcery-updates-march-2026/ ⚠️ So you’ve collected all the information for your Sourcery request, you’ve filled out the necessary fields, and you’re…

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Sourcery and you!

By Amanda Breeden | September 8, 2025

You may have heard there’s a new version of Sourcery available. Let’s talk about what that means for you!  If you’re a Researcher who studies material from archives, Sourcery creates an easy workflow to request scans from multiple institutions and…

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Announcing Sourcery Peer-to-Peer

By Amanda Breeden | September 4, 2025

Archival research isn’t easy. Finding what you’re looking for is only half the battle; getting to it, often in a distant city or even country, is the other. Many of us have hit this wall—a crucial letter or a rare…

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