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Happy New Year!

Many thanks to everyone involved in making it possible for us to use so much via WP-Library, and my best wishes to you all for the new year 2026. Tozina (talk) 21:23, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

thank you very much and Happy new year!!! Natalia Sanchez Prieto (talk) 18:29, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

OECD unavailable 2026

The OECD Data and iLibrary are unavailable. The page says, "Website is not accessible via this address." Thatsme314 (talk) 17:34, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

@Thatsme314 Thanks for the heads up. Looks like a Cloudflare error - I've filed T413859 and we'll get in touch with them. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 10:54, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

degruyter Multi-Volume Work Unlicensed

I would like to access one volume of a multi-volume work. However, this is no longer possible. Before the service problems, access to the volumes was unrestricted. It would be nice if de-gruyter-brill would also unlock multi-volume works.

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/serial/gvhjschb5-b/html

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/document/doi/10.14315/9783641248178/html

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/serial/mega1-b/html#volumes

Ettiwdreg (talk) 00:42, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

EBSCO Business Searching Interface request

On 2026 Jan 13, I attended an EBSCO Academy seminar from EBSCO employee Lisa Jones. The topic was EBSCO's Business Searching products, including the EBSCO Business Source databases and the EBSCO Business Searching Interface. In addition to interesting tidbits like Harvard Business Review being written for "upper-level management", I liked that the EBSCO Business Searching Interface offers services that let us browse company profiles by industry. Would you be interested in setting up EBSCO Business Searching Interface? Jones said that the Business Searching Interface comes free with Business Source Complete.

Thatsme314 (talk) 03:43, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

I also just sent a request through the link https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest . Thatsme314 (talk) 03:48, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

No entiendo?

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hola. no entiendo lo que quieras decirme pero mi idioma es español att:plazafrank Plazafrank (talk) 20:44, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Hola! Soy parte del equipo de La Biblioteca de Wikipedia. Estamos enviando correos a los usuarios de la biblioteca para contestar una breve encuesta. ¿Me podrías decir qué es lo que no entiendes? SCardenas (WMF) (talk) 21:17, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Courriel non reçu

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Salut!

J'ai reçu une alerte sur Méta-Wiki m'informant que j'avais reçu un courriel, l'aperçu indiquant “The Wikipedia Library vous a envoyé un courriel. La Bibliothèque Wikipédia a besoin de votre aide!”.

Pourtant, je n'ai aucun nouveau courriel. J'ai cherché dans tous mes dossiers—notamment “Courrier indésirable”—mais je ne le trouve pas.

S'agit-il de quelque chose de privé? Sinon, pouvez-vous la poster sur ma page de discussion?

Merci – EmDashUser002 (Talk | Contribs) @ 03:02, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Même remarque, après de nombreuses vérifications, je n'ai malheureusement rien reçu. Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (talk) 05:54, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Même cas de figure par ici. Abalg (talk) 17:55, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Pareil. Le message a disparu ! CéCédille (talk) 23:07, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Il s'agit d'une enquête auprès des utilisateurs de la bibliothèque. Si vous ne le trouvez pas dans vos courriers indésirables, vérifiez peut-être quelle adresse est enregistrée dans vos préférences ? Il est également possible qu'il y ait eu un problème technique lors de l'envoi. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:44, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Merci @Nikkimaria. Je l'ai bien reçu, mais deux jours après la notification wiki. Abalg (talk) 19:56, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

furthermore degruyter Multi-Volume Work Unlicensed

I would like to access one volume of a multi-volume work. However, this is no longer possible. Before the service problems, access to the volumes was unrestricted. It would be nice if de-gruyter-brill would also unlock multi-volume works.

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/serial/gvhjschb5-b/html

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/document/doi/10.14315/9783641248178/html

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/serial/mega1-b/html#volumes

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/document/doi/10.14315/9783641247454/html

Ettiwdreg (talk) 22:49, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Newspapers.com and Oxford Academic

Two questions here. I take it that Wikimedia's Newspapers.com subscription has lapsed as it seems to have disappeared now? But at least we have the British Newspaper Archive back, so swings and roundabouts.

My other question is, how much access to Oxford Academic do we get? I searched for this chapter and I had no free access to it, which was slightly disappointing. Thanks in advance. Simon Harley (talk) 15:54, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

ACM Digital Library Collection and Open Access

Since ACM became Open Access at the start of this year, is it necessary to include it as a part of the available collections in the Wikipedia Library? Would keeping the ACM Digital Library collection as part of the Wikipedia Library take up the space for another potential collection that is not Open Access? Halikandry (talk) 06:36, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

There is no limit to the number of partners. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:48, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Limit on newspapers.com

I changed an inaccessible link to newspapers.com to a clipping, and when I tested it using private browsing (which is how I found out the source was not accessible) and was told that was my second of five free articles.Vchimpanzee (talk) 19:02, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

w:en:Wikipedia talk:The Wikipedia Library/Archive 12#Can't access newspapers.com reported account renewal delays a few months ago. You may need to go to https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/26/ and either apply or extend your account. Simon Harley, I see you mentioned a similar problem above. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:08, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Federated search?

What is the "Search the library" box at the top of https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ supposed to do? I'm assuming en:federated search, i.e. it takes the search terms you type into the box, runs them against all the individual services, and gives you a combined result? But that's not what happens.

If I do a search on "carlisle & finch", I get a single results page with 19 entries on it. But if I dig down into Gale/General Onefile and do the exact same search, I get results that I didn't get in the federated search. So I'm kind of confused about how I should be doing my searches. Should I always be running searches against the individual services, one by one, to get the best results? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by RoySmith (talk) 01:39, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

@RoySmith Good question! You're right, in essence, that this is what the search bar does. It uses EBSCO Discovery Service to search content from many (but not all) of the publishers available via The Wikipedia Library. Configuring this search tool is as much art as it is science, so it's not always a 1:1 match with what we have available if you navigate to collections directly, and some collections simply can't be indexed in the tool (notably ProQuest). If you look in the corner of a card in My Library you'll see a magnifying glass for publishers we're fairly confident are indexed correctly in the search tool, and no magnifying glass if they need to be browsed individually. So my recommendation is to use the main search bar first, see if you find what you're looking for, and if not you can still check relevant individual collections. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 15:57, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, that explains what I'm seeing. This same issue exists even within the individual services. Gale, for example, has their own collection of over 100 "research products". ProQuest does the same thing. Even en:NYPL makes "Search books, music, and movies" distinct from "Search the Research Catalog". I guess in the case of Gale and ProQuest, each of these is an individually marketable product they can sell, so I kind of see the logic there. Not sure why NYPL does it, though. Even more confusing why sometimes you can find stuff in books.google.com or scholar.google.com that you can't find in their top-level search. Oh well, things would be different I was in charge! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RoySmith (talk) 16:22, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

I've seen some news articles about worsening search results recently. One claim is that ad revenue depends on how many searches you run, so maximizing the number of times you have to search is better for the search engine company – up until the point that it gets so bad that you switch to a different search engine. I have run into the problem with Google search; an "all" search doesn't turn up books, and sometimes if I quote a few words from a book that I was looking at just a few minutes ago in Google Books, it says there are no results matching that.

The TWL provider that I am finding most interesting but most complicated to use is Perlego. It's full-text textbooks, but there's no easy way to find a textbook that contains the stuff you want to read about. You have to know the name of the textbook first, or at least a plausible guess about it (i.e., you can search for "vaccine", and you will find books with that word in the title, but you won't find ordinary medical textbooks that have a chapter on vaccines). WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:04, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

de Gruyter Brill problems

When I go to degruyterbrill via the link on the Wikipedia Library page, the top of the degruyterbrill webpage says “Nicht authentifiziert“ (not authenticated) and I can only access their Open Access ebooks. What can I do? --Jossi2 (talk) 17:45, 6 February 2026 (UTC)