Sourcery Pricing Part 2: Cost Comparisons

⚠️ CAUTION: this blog post might contain outdated information regarding Sourcery request costs or payouts.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, if you missed it, we talked about in a previous blog post HERE), let’s take…

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How Researchers Can Access Historical Documents Faster!

⚠️ CAUTION: this blog post might contain outdated information regarding Sourcery request costs or payouts.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 to personal letters, diaries, and even train tickets, allow researchers to ask new questions, verify…

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Sourcery Research Ambassador: Meet Maddie!

👂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 now! Read more in our previous blog post: https://sourceryapp.org/2025/09/17/join-our-team/ And now, our featured blog post:…

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Join Our Team!

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 humanities? Based in the Washington, DC area? Apply to be a Sourcerer beta tester! Learn…

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Why $65?

⚠️ CAUTION: this blog post might contain outdated information regarding Sourcery request costs or payouts.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 ready to hit “submit” and get your documents. Now it’s time to pay the bill:…

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Sourcery and you!

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 from a distance. Sourcery helps you collect important documents for your research or explore new…

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Announcing Sourcery Peer-to-Peer

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 photograph that is tantalizingly out of reach. For years, we’ve wrestled with this problem, and…

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Hello (again), World!

Greetings Sourcery users! Over the past year, big things have been happening behind the scenes at Sourcery. Next week we’ll announce a complete reboot of the project, with an all-new peer-to-peer app that will allow researchers who need access to documents to connect with other researchers who have access to those documents. Sourcery is an…

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