Talk:The Wikipedia Library/Archive 5

TWLight

If I try to log in to the library, I see a message to say "TWLight needs permission to access information, including your email address, on meta.wikimedia.org". Who or what is TWLight, and what am I being asked to agree to here?

The message doesn't say what information TWLight intends to access, or what purpose it, or any third party, would use it for. The page includes a link to the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy, but this isn't much use when I don't know who I'm dealing with.

I tried to search for information about TWLight, but all I learnt was that a lot of people mis-spell "twilight".

Could anyone shed any light onto this for me? Thanks. Aoeuidhtns (talk) 23:31, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

@Aoeuidhtns TWLight is the internal name of the library's software. The information the library will retrieve is simply public information about your account (e.g. username, edit count), plus your email address. We should perhaps rename the OAuth request to use the term 'The Wikipedia Library' instead, to avoid confusion, but I'm not sure if this is possible. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 11:52, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Oxford Academic Access Problem

I tried to access Oxford Academic through the link on the page. When it was re-directed to their site, it was not logged in. I clicked on the institutional sign in option and tried searching both Wikipedia and Wikimedia but nothing came up. Do we no longer have access or is this just a web issue? -- Lenny Marks (talk) 16:29, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

@Lenny Marks Were you able to access content after being redirected to their site? You won't show up as logged in, but you should still be able to access items. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 16:16, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Duration of Log-in

When I log in to Wikipedia, I get asked if I want to stay logged in "for up to a year". Yet I seem to have to log in to TWL every new day that I want to use it.

Would it be possible to stay logged in for longer? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:06, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing I took a look into this and it seems like the configuration is set to require login every three days. We have this setup because logging in is the best way for us to retrieve new data for username or email address changes users have made. Prior to this we only required login every two weeks, but it meant if users were renamed or changed their email address we weren't picking that up. We had assumed that because login is so quick (you just get redirected straight back into the library), that this wasn't a big deal. There might be a better way to do this, so I've filed a Phabricator ticket at T383627. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 20:49, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Edward Elgar access appears to have expired

See the report at phab:T379783, which has not been acknowledged for two months. — Pajz (talk) 10:47, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

We have requested E-Elgar to renew our access for another year. I will update the Phab ticket as soon as we hear from them. Thanks. VSj (WMF) (talk) 06:25, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

This should be working now. Thanks! VSj (WMF) (talk) 12:01, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. It works. — Pajz (talk) 16:31, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Taylor & Francis Full Text Appears Paywalled

I'm trying to access the full text of an article on Taylor & Francis. The site indicates "Access provided by The Wikipedia Library". However, when I click on "Read this article" the paywall pops up. Mox La Push (talk) 00:30, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Mox La Push, which article are you trying to access? Nikkimaria (talk) 04:05, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your interest, Nikkimaria. I'm trying to access "Jacob H. Schiff becomes a Zionist". Mox La Push (talk) 00:53, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Doesn't look like that journal is on the title list for any of the collections listed on the Taylor & Francis page. You could suggest the access be expanded. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't realize access was limited to a curated list. I have posted a suggestion to add the journal to the T&F collection. Mox La Push (talk) 04:11, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Actually, Studies in Zionism has been renamed as Journal of Israeli History. That journal is listed as part of the T&F Arts & Humanities collection. So, I'm still not sure why I can't access the Schiff article. --Mox La Push (talk) 04:19, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

If I search for the article through the Journal of Israeli History then it comes up as the first result but the text is still not accessible even though T & F indicates that "Access [is] provided by The Wikipedia Library".--Mox La Push (talk) 07:01, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

@Mox La Push, if you look at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/10/, it links to T&F's "Arts & Humanities Collection". T&F distinguishes its "Arts & Humanities Collection" from its "Arts & Humanities Archive". Here, collections are described as containing "content published since 1997". (The Arts and Humanities Archive would probably allow access to older issues.) If you click through the Journal of Israeli History volumes listed here, you'll notice that 1997 seems to be exactly the cut-off date and TWL seems to give full-text access to all later issues. So I guess that's the reason why you can't access the article. — Pajz (talk) 16:00, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. That seems like a plausible explanation but for one possible caveat. According to T&F, the Schiff article was published online in 2008. Of course, if access is determined by the original print publication date then your explanation holds. Mox La Push (talk) 07:23, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

I've suggested the addition of Taylor & Francis Arts & Humanities Classic Archive here. No tracking number has been assigned yet.--Mox La Push (talk) 02:25, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Newspapers.com not working for me

I was granted access to newspapers.com (for the first time) on Feb. 2. When I log in at newspapers.com on the unpaid account I've had for five years it still is offering me the 7 day free trial. Any suggestions? Davemc0 (talk) 06:13, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

@Davemc0 Did you receive an email from Newspapers.com confirming that your account had been set up? Are you logging in with the email you provided us in your application? If you're not sure which one you used please email us at wikipedialibrarywikimedia.org and I can share it with you. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:06, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm in the same boat as Davemc0 - coincidentally my application for accessing Newspapers.com was also approved on 2 February. However, I still have no access, no email from them and the status still reads "Sent to partner". Ajsmith141 (talk)

Same situation. It was approved at Wikipedia on February 2, but there is still no email from newspapers.com, and when I log in I still show an unpaid account offering a 7 day free trial. Phatblackmama (talk) 22:00, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Me too! I haven't received an email from Newspapers.com yet. Sunnya343 (talk) 02:36, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Same, Only email I've received was saying my request had been approved and sent to partner.--Jeffrey R. Clark (talk) 01:41, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

It's been over a month since my application was approved and sent to newspapers, what's the hold up here. Jeffrey R. Clark (talk) 09:17, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

I have also posted a question about this problem over here.Phatblackmama (talk) 00:09, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Got the email from newspapers.com this morning. My account status now says: “Complimentary Publisher Extra® Annual.” Good through March 5, 2026. Phatblackmama (talk) 16:46, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Got mine as well. Jeffrey R. Clark (talk) 07:18, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

EBSCOhost ebooks

I was automatically logged in to the EBSCOhost eBook Collection when I visited on my phone (browser is set to auto login via the proxy when allowed). I was able to interact and search, but not download some books to read. Does Wikipedia have a subscription to the eBook Collection? Are there some sub-collections not included? (If they don't, I would love if it was added. They have a lot of hard to find books, that aren't included in the current Wikipedia subscriptions.)

When I try to login to the eBook Collection via my laptop (no automatic browser proxy) and select Wikipedia as my institution, my login information returns the message "We don't recognize that combination. Please try again or find your institution to access another way." I don't see a way to login via the Wikipedia Library site.

On my phone, logged into eBook Collection with my Wikipedia login, the error I get when I tap the download button on some books is "An error occurred. This eBook is unavailable right now. Please try again later." Pingnova (talk) 07:22, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

@Pingnova EBSCO needs to be accessed via The Wikipedia Library proxy - attempting to log in on EBSCO's website won't work, unfortunately. With EBSCO we only have access to certain collections, which are listed here. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:04, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Adding AI engines?

Would it be possible to get the new AI/LLM engines added to TWL? I know all the arguments about why they're bad, but they're also useful for discovering things you've missed in the more conventional search engines, and then you can run those leads down to verify them against reliable sources.

Do you have a specific AI in mind? Nikkimaria (talk) 03:50, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

The Hindu

Hello! I was informed on 2 February that my application to use this source was approved. I followed the instructions in the email, but I was taken to a payment page that asked for credit card information and did not have a place for me to enter the voucher code. I didn't get around to exploring the issue further until today, when I came across the subscription page for The Hindu's e-paper which includes a link to the 1-year All-Access Pass. When I click that link, I am able to enter a coupon code, but the one provided doesn't work. Hopefully the code hasn't expired? Regards, Sunnya343 (talk) 02:32, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

I have the same issue, although I didn't get any prompt to enter a coupon code. Soumyapatra13 (talk) 08:32, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

@Sunnya343 and Soumyapatra13: We're looking into this - sometimes we can get the coupon code field to display and sometimes we can't, and it's not entirely obvious to us why. I'll let you know when we've figured it out! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 14:57, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

I clicked the redemption URL again and was taken to a different page, where I was able to enter the coupon code and it worked! Sunnya343 (talk) 03:06, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for confirming. The partner has made some changes to the codes to work, so it should work for everyone now. VSj (WMF) (talk) 09:39, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Cambridge University Press not Working

Today I tried to access some books on Cambridge University Press, but in spite of the site saying "Authenticated by The Wikipedia Library", most books and articles that I've tried say they require access. Some chapters inside a book will allow access, such as [1], but the rest of the book requires access. Biologo-in-erba (talk) 09:03, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I've got the same problem. But now it seems to work.

Greetings, Kogge (talk) 09:12, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Now it works for me too. Biologo-in-erba (talk) 19:08, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

ISSN portal

The ISSN portal subscription service would be very useful to improve Wikidata records for periodicals. Specifically, "Full ISSN Profile data (publisher, start year, end year, frequency, language, links to successor and past titles, etc.)". For current periodicals, this information is usually readily available elsewhere, but for more obscure discontinued works, this can be hard to find in other sources. Daask (talk) 14:27, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Oxford Reference

I can't access Oxford Reference, although it shows me as signed in as the Wikipedia Library. Someone knows what is the problem?--Nous (talk) 06:28, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

@Nous It seems to be working for me - what content are you attempting to access, we don't have access to 100% of the content in Oxford Reference. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 15:09, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

I attempt to access The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography and Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period--Nous (talk) 15:47, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

"Simultaneous user limit" on Oxford resources

Whenever I try accessing an entry in one of the Oxford resources, such as the ODNB or Grove Music Online, I encounter the following error: "The simultaneous user limit associated with your subscription has been exceeded. Please alert your librarian that you've received this message and inquire about increasing the number of simultaneous users. Thank you."

I know it was working as recently as three or four hours ago, as I was able to access an ODNB entry without issue. Sunshineisles2 (talk) 20:51, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

This appears to be resolved for me.--Sunshineisles2 (talk) 01:00, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Service issue with SAGE Journals?

Instead of something like "access available" as one might expect, all journals I've tested so far on SAGE as of my most recent visit via WPL have "restricted access" for their paywalled articles instead. Я сошла с ума (talk) 03:16, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Same - and articles I could previously access are no longer accessible, for example this one. Andi Fugard (talk) 08:01, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this. We have reached out to the partner to restore our access. VSj (WMF) (talk) 06:32, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Andi Fugard (talk) 08:36, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

This should be working now. Please check and let me know if you're still facing any issues. Thanks! VSj (WMF) (talk) 14:19, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Everything is working as it should again on my end! Thank you to you and the rest of the team. Я сошла с ума (talk) 12:21, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Newspapers.com issue?

Hello all: anyone else having an issue with Newspapers.com? It was working yesterday, but today it says "Expiry date: Sep 29, 2025", and offers the Extend button. Other databases are working for me. Thanks! -- Zanimum (talk) 17:03, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Disregard, it's working again. -- Zanimum (talk) 23:34, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Portal interface fix for Newspapers.com

Please fix the "50 years of the New York Times" part on https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/. According to https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-new-york-times/395/, they only have 1851-1922 for NYT. ~ ミラP@Miraclepine 17:57, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Do you want it to say "72 years" instead? WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:03, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Not sure if there would be much benefit to changing it, though it would be more accurate. Something like 50+ years, 70 years, or 70+ years would be sufficient if it needs to be changed at all. Cause I don't think it has to be pinpoint accurate for something like that. (If you really wanted to be accurate you would list the number of days that it covers. ^{Please note that I am joking.}) Sheriff U3 (talk) 04:53, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, let's go with "first 72 years of the New York Times". ミラP@Miraclepine 15:00, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

This has been done. It now says:

"The collection includes some major newspapers for limited periods (e.g., first 72 years of the New York Times), but mostly consists of US regional papers from the 1700s to the late 1980s." WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:44, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of it! ミラP@Miraclepine 14:10, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

(I didn't make the change. I'm not sure who did, but I'm also happy that it happened.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 14:44, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

De Gruyter Brill

I don't have access to AKL Online anymore. De Gruyter has a new website, now De Gruyter Brill. --Kolja21 (talk) 03:48, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, we have emailed Brill for help on this. VSj (WMF) (talk) 08:07, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

I've got the same problem. I know that you are working on this, but want to let you know that there is not one man who needs access to this database:) Good luck--Nous (talk) 08:12, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

And as the third, the same problem for me yesterday and today. --Privat-User (talk) 11:46, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Today the link to "De Gruyter Brill" started with [2] and the following page shows:

Oops! It looks like you have attempted to view a page that has not been configured for access.

If you are a library patron...

Please contact your library and provide the name of the resource you were trying to access and the Host line below so the library can work with you to correct this error.

Host https://www.degruyterbrill.com/

If you are an EZproxy administrator...

To allow https://www.degruyterbrill.com/ to be used in a starting point URL, you need to either:

Contact Support to have this host added.

If you are still testing and in implementation, send an email to your implementation lead to have this host added.

For more information, please also see Starting Point URLs & config.txt.

If you would like to customize the text or update this page, please Contact Support. For additional details about this page, please also see the information on our default web pages.

--Privat-User (talk) 15:54, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Done Access is permitted again. --Kolja21 (talk) 13:36, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Amazing news:) Thank you for your work. Nous (talk) 05:57, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

NEJM access?

Is the New England Journal of Medicine available via any of the Wikipedia Library partners? Muzilon (talk) 02:32, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

It's available via Proquest. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:27, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Cannot access

Hi, can you help me access Wiki library or find sources that can help me. I have made 500+ edits and my account is old enough to be eligible. A couple of weeks ago I submitted a request for access, but the submissions doesn't appear at the "My applications" subpage. Thank you! LastJabberwocky (talk) 12:02, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

@LastJabberwocky, are you able to use other parts? For example, if you go to https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/91/ and click "Access Collection", it should send you to https://www-oxfordreference-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ which is the main page for Oxford Research. If you put something like "ice cream" in the search box at the top of that page, does it give you search results?

I'm trying to learn whether the whole thing is broken for you, or if it's just the "My applications" page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:02, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing: When I click on any of the items in my collection, including Oxford research, it opens a new tab trying to redirect me to that source, but it doesn't redirect me keeping at this domain: (https://wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=production&url=https://www.oxfordreference.com). It's probably worth mentioning that I got a notification about the library when made just under 500 edits, and thinking I met the qualifications I sent an application. When got over the 500 threshold, I sent another application. Thanks for your response! LastJabberwocky (talk) 05:44, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Most of the sources don't require any kind of application. If you can use anything, you should be able to use about three-quarters of them. If you go to https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ and login, do you see your username in the upper corner (next to the 'Log out' button) on the next page? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:10, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing: I'm logged in I double-checked a couple of times. My other hypothesis (a touch paranoid one) is the library detects me as someone from Russia and loggs me in with Russian wiki where I don't have 500+ edits. I changed language from Russian to English but it didn't change the situation. Maybe I can contact someone who can reset my library status, then give it again? Like classis solution of restarting pc to solve most problems. LastJabberwocky (talk) 11:28, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

The system doesn't care which wiki your edits are to. I don't know whether there is any sort of geolocation involved.

Resetting or whitelisting your account would probably require help from a developer. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:40, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Reliability of sources

Are all the sources here considered reliable, or should I screen them like I would any other source I found? It varies by what the source is to support of course, but I am meaning on a more general basis. Also can a sources inclusion on the Library be used to show that it is a Reliable Source. (I am referring to the English Wikipedia policies when I say Reliable Source or just reliable.) Btw I am new to the Library. Sheriff U3 (talk) 02:51, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Reliability varies by specific source and specific subject - something that is considered reliable in one context may not be in another. For example, on English Wikipedia, a particular source may meet en:WP:RS but not en:WP:MEDRS for medical claims. You should always assess any source, no matter how you find it. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:23, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Ok thanks! I noticed that it said at the top of the page:

"The Wikipedia Library allows active editors to access a wide range of collections of paywalled reliable sources for free!"

And so I didn't know if the sources were screened already or not. Will do my own assessment of reliability of the sources. And yes it definitely depends on context, sources for a blp article need to meet much higher standards then a source for an article about a car. Thanks again for your prompt answer! Sheriff U3 (talk) 04:34, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Description needs to be fixed

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/23/ says:

"Journals include, among others, The Lancet, Cell, Current Biology, Biomaterials, Biological Psychiatry, Social Science & Medicine, Current Biology, Cognition, and Behavioural Brain Research."

Please remove the duplicate when you have a moment. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:59, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Search is unnecessarily complex and not intuitive

If I have the exact url of a journal article, or an index code such as DOI or JSTOR, I believe it should be dead simple to access the article - but the search function here wants a whole lot of details that must be entered absolutely letter perfect to work. Meanwhile back in 'pedia a DOI code or ISBN is all that is needed to automatically generate a complete citation. Can the ability to search by DOI (or ISBN, JSTOR etc) not be incorporated in search system here? Dodger67 (talk) 11:51, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

@Dodger67: Searching by either DOI or JSTOR ID works - for example searching 25780831 brings up the article you requested. If you have an exact URL you can also add a proxy prefix (eg https://www.jstor.org/stable/25780831 -> https://wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=production&url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25780831), which should work if the article is available through that source. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:56, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm also finding that searches by DOI do not work. (I also find the first (oclc.org) link in @Nikkimaria's reply doesn't work: " We are unable to validate your login credentials. " error while I'm logged in to the library. Also, searching TWL for 25780831 doesn't work for me for finding that disability article.) A search with the DOI or title of the article I'm looking for, a Lancet article, brings up a list of articles, but the one I'm looking for isn't near the top. Looking now, I see it is in the long list of results. So it did sort of work, eventually. I didn't realize 'till later. Adding the proxy prefix to the Lancet URL didn't work for me either.

It seems so strange that Search is unnecessarily complex and not intuitive - as @Dodger67 noted.

Yes, I know this thread was archived. Seems more useful to comment here than open a new thread. RememberOrwell (talk) 04:37, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

RememberOrwell, I've moved this thread out of the archive. What Lancet article are you trying to find? Nikkimaria (talk) 00:51, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

The Lancet is part of Elsevier, so you need to start with TWL's Elsevier ScienceDirect collection. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:36, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

My and @Dodger67's question is Can the ability to search by DOI (or ISBN, JSTOR etc) not be incorporated in search system here? Not how to find a particular article. Today your oclc link workaround that wasn't working, works.

Though how about we make a TWL search page with a bunch of fillable fields and buttons, one takes a JSOR ID and opens https://wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=production&url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/<jstorid>, another takes a DOI,... RememberOrwell (talk) 02:38, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

I don't think TWL uses its own search system. The box at the top seems to go to https://search.ebscohost.com/ Publishers that don't partner with EBSCO aren't searchable. It might be possible to write a script that could look at a DOI and figure out which publisher 'owns' that number. (@Headbomb would probably know whether that would usually be feasible.) But I don't think that ISBN would work. WhatamIdoing (talk) 08:26, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

On enwiki, you can often just look up the DOI prefix. For example, en:10.1007 will take you to en:Springer Science+Business Media.

In general, there's an Index of DOI prefix at en:User:JL-Bot/DOI, build from CrossRef data. There are other DOI issuants out there, so it doesn't cover every case, but it covers the vast majority of them. Headbomb (talk) 14:30, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Useful workarounds and a potential component of a fix. RememberOrwell (talk) 00:29, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

But that's changeable. It does go there but it doesn't have to go there. It's not clear to me that it should. RememberOrwell (talk) 00:34, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

Can't access newspapers.com

In February of 2024 I lost access to newspapers.com when they made a change. I reported it on Phabricator last April and was told it might not ever get fixed. In November I realized it was, applied, and was given access that should have extended to this November 17. However, I've lost access right around the anniversary of when I reported on Phabricator. This page shows my application to renew access. I've heard NOTHING in the interim and I don't know what to do or where to go. I'm trying to translate an article from a foreign language into English and I need access to newspapers.com to find sources in English. Half a million articles here are flagged as lacking sources, and I RELY on newspapers.com for sources. I'd be so grateful for help.. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 18:28, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

@Oona Wikiwalker: I am brand new TWL so can't help much, but have you tried looking through the ProQuest database available on the main listing page? It includes some full text newspaper articles.

How do I apply for access to newspapers.com? I can try to see if it works for me to help confirm your problem. Commander Keane (talk) 22:30, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Commander Keane, here.

Oona Wikiwalker, did you see the comment on your application page? Nikkimaria (talk) 04:10, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Gale

I keep getting "403 Forbidden" errors with Gale, as of about 12 hours ago. I've logged out and back in, and I still can't get past the page with links to "Academic Onefile", "Biography", etc. And other people on Discord say they can access Gale fine.

Any idea what could be causing this? DS (talk) 04:39, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

As a workaround, you might check your local library's website to see whether they offer this. I'm pretty sure that most of the libraries in my area (California) have some sort of Gale subscription. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:10, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Try clearing cache/cookies or using a different browser? Nikkimaria (talk) 02:56, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

"Different browser" works, thanks. DS (talk) 03:21, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

I keep getting this error on Gale, The resource says I have permission and I have frequently used it before, indeed I rely on it. I have tried a different browser, a different computer, and have removed my history/caches, but this message keeps popping up 'Max challenge attempts exceeded. Please refresh the page to try again!'Any advice? 101TAD (talk)

It's currently not available. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:41, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Library says it has this, but link doesn't work

How to Deal with Holy Books in an Age of Emerging Science. The Oera Linda Book as a New Age Bible. Academic Journal By: Jensma, Goffe. Fabula. 2007, Vol. 48 Issue 3-4, p229-249. 21p. DOI: 10.1515/FABL.2007.019. , Doug Weller (talk) 10:01, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

This link seems to work? Nikkimaria (talk) 17:10, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, that worked. I don’t understand why I had a problem. I tried several times. Doug Weller (talk) 17:52, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Lost access to Rock's Backpages

Hi. I've had access to Rock's Backpages since February and I lost it (the access) a week ago or so. Is it me or are others having the same problem? Thanks. AwerDiWeGo (talk) 15:19, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

I've also lost access. My subscription only expires in July this year. —Bruce1ee^talk 06:44, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for highlighting this. We have reached out to the partner to help us with this. VSj (WMF) (talk) 16:31, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Rock's Backpages has renewed our access. Please check and let me know if you're still facing any issues. VSj (WMF) (talk) 18:36, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

It started working for me again. Thank you. AwerDiWeGo (talk) 18:42, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

@VSj (WMF): It's working for me too. Thank you for your help. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:05, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Request business resources

I edit business topics on en.wikipedia. It would be desirable to have access to:

• Financial Times (UK)
• The Economist (UK)

• Dow Jones & Company publications including:
  • The Wall Street Journal (US)
  • Barron's (US)
  • Investor's Business Daily (US)
  • Financial News (UK)
  • Factiva business information and research tool
  • Far Eastern Economic Review (HK) -- closed in 2009; old articles may or may not be accessible
  • MarketWatch (US)

• Bloomberg L.P. sites (US)
  • Bloomberg Businessweek
  • New Energy Finance
  • Bureau of National Affairs
  • Bloomberg News
  • Bloomberg Markets
  • Bloomberg Law
  • Bloomberg Government

• Australian Financial Review
• American City Business Journals - publishes 40+ metropolitan business newspapers
• Crain Communications - multiple US industry and city business publications
• International Business Times (US) with international editions. Also publishes some more niche publications such as Medical Daily and Latin Times
• Börsen-Zeitung (Germany)
• Handelsblatt (Germany)

High-quality industry specific:

• American Banker| (US)
• Adweek| (US)
• Women's Wear Daily (US)
• Inside Higher Ed (US)
• Inside Philanthropy (US)

A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 01:51, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

I did not realize there was a formal process for requesting new resources. I have submitted suggestions for the Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones), Bloomberg, The Economist and The Financial Times. It looks like there's a backlog of requests so I'll hold off on the others. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 03:30, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for adding those to the Suggest page, @A. B. That is the correct process. On a side note, we should have access to Dow Jones & Company publications shortly. I will update this thread when it's available. VSj (WMF) (talk) 13:11, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 13:44, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

WSJ is available in the library now, you can apply for access here - https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/158/. We have the Japanese (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/159/) and Chinese, both simplified (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/160/) and traditional (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/161/), editions too. Thanks! VSj (WMF) (talk) 15:25, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

@Omotecho, could you please post an announcement about the Japanese source at jawiki? There have been so few Japanese-language sources available in the Wikipedia Library. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:18, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Here resonating for many months, and thank you, @A. B., I finally understand the format threshold: go to Suggest and list target sources in your language.

Now, @WhatamIdoing, do you want to see:

1. jawp community gear in and suggest any sources, or
2. ja language Wikimedians come and enjoy The Wikipedia Library, as they will see sources in Japanese language, too ?
3. I will note the Wikimedians of Japan User Group (WJUG), an affiliate starting their 2nd year as WMF grantee.

Is anybody going to Nairobi for Wikimania ? I guess librarians are one sector who specializes in this field, and Omotecho (talk) 07:05, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm most interested in #2. There are only three Japanese-language sources in The Wikipedia Library. This is very few, but I would like them to know that it is not zero. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:39, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Ok, @WhatamIdoing greedy me combined 1+2 q; Posted on the Noticeboard/ja [3] (briefed below ja-en)

I guess the Talkpage over there could be an idea exchange place, or maybe portals are better fitted to find more popular and much applied sources.

How have TWL and 1lib1ref ppl coordinated so far? Around Jawp, outreaching to librarians has been moving off-wiki by local Jawp users, presenting vendor booth at a convention/showcase to introduce Wikipedia.[4]

Jawp post

The Wikipedia library now offers more Japanese language materials

The Wikipedia Library (TWL) has special accounts at reliable authorities which are paywalled behind membership or subscription, and allows you to use them. Those materials in Japanese have been added. Come and see for yourself.

Find the procedure (link) for nominating more authority and reference databases, such as thesis summary sites. You can post in ja.

• newer materials in ja
  • The Wall Street Journal (Japanese version)
    • English version, The Wall Street Journal.
    • ibid, Simplified Chinese.
    • ibid, Traditional Chinese.

-- dated 04-06-2025 18:30 (UTC)

Omotecho (talk) 09:09, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

This looks very nice. Thank you so much. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:02, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks VSj (WMF). I personally already have an English language Wall Street Journal subscription but the Asian versions will be helpful. This will also help other en.wikipedia editors. --17:54, 4 June 2025 (UTC) A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 17:54, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

WikiCite 2025

For whoever uses Wikidata in their wiki activities related to library science or sources, I share also here a reminder that the WikiCite conferences series dedicated to Wikidata and sources/references is going to be rebooted this year by WMCH. It will take place at the end of August.

Most of the conference will be on-line. There are various slots available for the wider community, especially on Saturday, featuring both long and short talks (see Programme. if anyone amongst you have any proposal which overlaps with the theme of this Wikicon, please add it here. Alexmar983 (talk) 15:44, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Springer Nature link

I should have access to this article at Springer, but it won't let me get it? - MPF (talk) 14:03, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Same issue here, no access to Nature group papers today. Cyclopia (talk) 16:19, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

As mention above, I have the same problem. --Kogge (talk) 17:06, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Our access seems to have expired. We have reached out to the partner to reinstate our access. VSj (WMF) (talk) 21:23, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

@VSj (WMF) thanks! Any guesses how long that might take? - MPF (talk) 23:24, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

While I can't confirm, I'm hopeful we'll have access again in a week or two. VSj (WMF) (talk) 15:53, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

It is working now again! Many thanks! --Kogge (talk) 06:37, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Unable to Access Wiley

FYI: Just the other day I accessed an article from Wiley—however, today I went back to review that same article, and I got this message from Cloudflare when trying to access it via the TWL proxy:

Screenshot (imgur.com)

This occurs not only when I attempt to access an article directly at its dedicated URL, but also when I manually reload with the proxy, and it also occurs when I go to TWL homepage and click "Access Collection" under the "Wiley" card in the grid of collections.

There is no mention of a "Service issue" on the Wiley collection card, so I thought I would report it here.

Hermes Thrice Great (talk) 18:19, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

LWW.com

Are the journals under the umbrella of w:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins available through TWL? Muzilon (talk) 23:13, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

@Muzilon Unfortunately not! You can suggest their inclusion at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest/ :) Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 16:11, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Oh, I see it's already in the Suggestions list. Muzilon (talk) 22:38, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

IEEE Xplore

Attempted to access this link, and am met with the message "This content is outside your institutional subscription". Is there a way to determine what content is accessible and which is not or is this an issue that can be resolved? Thanks! —Locke Cole • t • c 21:55, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Searching Jstor

Jstor's search engine seems to be utterly useless. I've got a link to one of their own articles https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.flora.ftea001683 but when I enter that into their search box, it gives 'No results found'. How can I get to this link within the Wikipedia Library? If I just visit the link (i.e., outside the wikipedia library), I get 'We're sorry. You don't appear to have permission to access the item', if I try from within, it gives the 'No results found'. How do I get to it, please? - MPF (talk) 10:07, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

@MPF: It's in TWL here (it's a one-page pdf document). I couldn't find it using JSTOR's search box in TWL either, but I got access to it using javascript described in The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/March-April_2023#Access tips and tricks. —Bruce1ee^talk 13:54, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

@Bruce1ee Excellent, thanks! I think I was assuming it would be multiple pages, not just one page. - MPF (talk) 14:30, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

I suspect this isn't what you're supposed to do, but when I have a .../stable/xxx URL, I just manually paste the last two components onto the end of https://www-jstor-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ and that seems to work :-) RoySmith (talk) 16:39, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Searching at https://scholar.archive.org/ is often effective. Nemo 14:07, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

International Bibliography of Art (IBA), via ProQuest (or Getty?)

This is a shot in the dark, but wondering if there would ever be a world in which the library would want or could get access to the index International Bibliography of Art (IBA), the successor of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). IBA is run and owned by ProQuest, which the library already has a significant partnership with. The Getty Research Institute in California currently allows free access to the BHA and it's been one of the best resources for me when looking for sources for biography articles on visual artists and over visual arts coverage - a category of article that's really languished in the past on Wikipedia. Having access to the IBA would be just as useful. Asking here as opposed to suggesting because I'm not sure if this is even appropriate as it's an index and not a database of actual content. Thanks for any insight! 19h00s (talk) 13:37, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Requirement ratio

Why is the requirement ratio 6 months to 500 edits to 10 edits per month.

also how many days is the 6 months requirement as it can be anywhere between 181 and 184 days. 23.162.200.217 08:04, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

The requirement numbers are somewhat arbitrary - they were set a long time ago and we weren't looking at a lot of data at the time. As for the 6 months requirement, the specific value is 182 days. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:24, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Also it is very easy to farm the edit count requirement. Just create a blank userpage on every wmf wiki. There are more than 500 wmf wikis so you will reach it. 23.162.200.217 10:49, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Also, Is it six months since account creation or first edit? 23.162.200.217 10:51, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Since account creation. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 11:20, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

That should be changed from 6 months editing to 6 months since account creation on the eligible page. 23.162.200.217 11:47, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Cui prodest? Is there any evidence of abuse? Nemo 14:06, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

McFarland

In case anybody is confused (as I was) about how the McFarland collection works, the instructions I got when my application was approved didn't make much sense. But then a day later, the full PDF of the book I was looking for popped into my email inbox as a review copy :-) — The preceding unsigned comment was added by RoySmith (talk) 16:42, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Edinburgh university press - is the access scope limited?

I just tried to access a newly published article, via Wikipedia Library, in an EUP journal, namely Philosophy, Politics and Critique. Yet I still have "no access" to the article https://www-euppublishing-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.3366/ppc.2025.0075

If EUP is not giving access to ALL its content, perhaps this could be described somewhere. I was unaware that deals between publishers and Wikipedia Library could be partial (and not complete). Or am I just experiencing some kind of odd error? Metacladistics (talk) 13:49, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

@Metacladistics: It can often take a little while before newly published material becomes available via TWL. If you browse the UEP journals in TWL, you'll see that Philosophy, Politics and Critique has three issues per year: April, July and October. The article you want was published on 6 August 2025. —Bruce1ee^talk 06:17, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I am a highly infrequent user of TWL. How long do I need to wait do you think? Days, weeks, or months? Metacladistics (talk) 09:37, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

That article will probably appear in the October 2025 issue, so I would guess October or November this year. —Bruce1ee^talk 09:54, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

The Wall Street Journal asking for redemption code

I applied for access of WSJ and it got approved. When I am going to access it, the site is asking for redemption code. I have not received any such code in mail. Kindly help. Herpking (talk) 05:42, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

I am having the same issue. Any updates on this? Pomodecon (talk) 01:18, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

@Herpking You should have an email dated August 3rd from noreply@twl.wmflabs.org with your access code. @Pomodecon Your email was sent on September 14th. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:03, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

@Samwalton9 (WMF) My apologies. I can't seem to find that email. Would it be possible to have another email sent to me? Pomodecon (talk) 18:52, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

@Pomodecon Sent :) Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 12:31, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Got it! It landed in the spam folder (as suspected and probably for the second time). Thank you! Pomodecon (talk) 17:49, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

@Samwalton9 (WMF), yes I have received the mail and have access to WSJ. Thanks - Herpking (talk) 15:31, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Brill Primary Sources are unavailable

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/59 states: "This partnership gives you access to all e-books and journals, all major reference works, all primary source collections". However, when I tried to open https://primarysources-brillonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/browse/weapons-of-mass-destruction/usaf-memorandum-chemical-and-biological-warfare-organization-equipment-and-training-status-march-1-1951-top-secret-nara;wmdowmdo02173 I found it's unavailable. And it's not limited to one collection: checking https://primarysources-brillonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/subjects, all of the primary sources are behind red locks. What's going on? GlossyMannequin (talk) 15:49, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Edinburgh University Press

When I try to access the Edinburgh University Press content from the Wikipedia Library Card Platform, I am only taken to the main EUP page, which requires an individual login. I am not logged in via Wikipedia, nor do I have access to EUP content. What can I do? Thanks in advance --Jossi2 (talk) 09:54, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

I have found out now that I can access Edinburgh University Press via de Gruyter. But the direct link from the Wikipedia Library main page seems to be broken. --Jossi2 (talk) 10:23, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this, we have reached out to EUP for help on this. VSj (WMF) (talk) 16:38, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jossi2 I just went to double check this and it appears our access is working - please let me know if that doesn't seem to be the case for you. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 10:34, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

At present I can reach the Edinburgh University Press Journals Page and access content there. Thank you for your commitment. --Jossi2 (talk) 17:20, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Project MUSE not working

While trying to use a source for my draft, I discovered that Project MUSE won't load the paywalled content through TWL; it now gives me a "not currently authenticated" error instead. I'm just asking if it's a glitch to fix? ミラP@Miraclepine 21:56, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this. We have reached out to Project Muse for help on this. VSj (WMF) (talk) 13:16, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello, any update on this? The Project Muse's paywallled articles are still unreachable.. Antya Anantari (talk) 03:43, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

@Antya Anantari: Okay, I just checked and Project MUSE is back up! Click here to see for yourself! Special thanks to the staff who helped fix this. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:02, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

It works! Thank you and thanks to the WikiLibrary staff. Have a nice day and be safe.. Antya Anantari (talk) 07:46, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Oxford Academic

I tried to access Oxford Academic content today, but all books required me to get access. Anyone knows why? Biologo-in-erba (talk) 22:19, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Solved. Biologo-in-erba (talk) 09:28, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Suddenly Cambridge University Press fails?

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T404456

I use Cambridge University Press quite a lot. I have accessed Cosmological Physics many times while working on articles like Chronology of the universe. Today it gives me the pay options.

For several weeks across two different machines it has been putting up "This website uses cookies" on every page no matter what option I select.

Any suggestions? Johnjbarton (talk) 23:13, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Just another info: The upper right corner of the Cambridge site says "Authenticated by Wikipedia Library" Johnjbarton (talk) 23:35, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this. We have reached out to Cambridge University Press to reinstate the access. VSj (WMF) (talk) 16:27, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, have you had any news from CUP? Because when I go to Cambridge I still see pay options on all of their books. Biologo-in-erba (talk) 07:02, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Can anyone provide an update on this? CUP is one of the top three Wikilibrary resources I use. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:58, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

This is tracked at T404456 - no updates so far unfortunately. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:55, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

@Johnjbarton @Biologo-in-erba @Cynwolfe This issues is now resolved and Cambridge resources are available again. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 12:29, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. The site is behaving oddly, though. No matter how many times I tell it to accept all cookies, the cookies notice won't go away. It disappears for a few seconds, then reappears. When it reappears, the page reloads and takes me back to the top of the article, which is highly annoying. If I leave the notice alone and don't touch it again, I can scroll through, but then a good chunk of the page is obscured by it. This distraction can be avoided by downloading the PDF, which I usually do only after I've skimmed through to determine that I'll want to consult the article repeatedly over time. However, now there's a "trick" to downloading: if you click or close the cookies notice when it inevitably reappears in the course of your request to download, the downloading stops and the entire page refreshes. So you have to allow the cookies notice to resurrect and then refrain from touching it in order for the PDF request to go through. Cynwolfe (talk) 04:39, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Resuming JSTOR/EBSCO tab

I have logged in via Wikipedia library and found an article on JSTOR. When I go back to it later (it could be a couple of days) EBSCO wants me to sign in via my institution. I can sign in again via Wikipedia, but I get the library page rather than the article I was reading. I saved the URL for the article but I don’t know how to use it to get back to my original search. Help, please.

Humphrey Tribble (talk) 12:44, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

@Humphrey Tribble Can you share the URL you're trying to access? Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 15:18, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Here is one, Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

https://eds.p.ebscohost.com/eds/results?vid=0&sid=d3c2090f-d11e-4f88-92a1-5654ac2a792b%40redis&bquery=Volume%2B62%2B-%2B1984%252c%2B%2527Banastre%2BTarleton%2Band%2Bthe%2BBritish%2BLegion&bdata=JmNsaTA9RlQmY2x2MD1ZJnR5cGU9MCZzZWFyY2hNb2RlPUFuZCZzaXRlPWVkcy1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d

I have several others. I was doing an extensive search and opening documents of interest in another tab as I went. Apparently, that's fine for short periods but eventually I was invited to "find my institution" ans log in, something which I can only do via the Wikipedia library. If there is no way to do the login for each tab, perhaps there is a way to enter a document code via the W lib. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 01:19, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Try using the permalink option on the right side of the record page? Nikkimaria (talk) 03:01, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I see the Permalink icon when I follow the link you provided. How do I create such a link from the URL of blocked pages?

If I do a new search, there is no Permalink option. There is also no permalink option when I display a single item from the search list. However, there is a save icon; I am told my saves will be permanent if I log in even though I am already logged in through the Wikipedia library. If it doesn't recognise my login I don't know how long the saves last.

If I try to use any of the tabs I already have open, I just get a request to "find your institution". Is there some way to tell it my institution is the Wikipedia library? Perhaps that gets me back to my question of how to create a link when I have a URL from a page which is currently blocked.

I will not get into this predicament in future, but I would like to salvage a couple of hours of existing work.

Humphrey Tribble (talk) 03:45, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

I don't think there is a way to retroactively construct a permalink, unfortunately - you'd need to do it when you're first searching. For the login, you can create an individual account in EBSCO which is what it's referencing. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:33, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Cambridge University Press again

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T404456

It looks like the Cambridge University Press resources have been inaccessible again. This issue has been occurring for the past four days. Could someone please help me notify them? Thank you. Greenknight dv (talk) 06:56, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@Greenknight dv Thanks for the report, we're looking into it, see the tracked task above for updates. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:38, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Greenknight dv This is now resolved! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 12:28, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

This is awesome! Thank you very much. Greenknight dv (talk) 22:32, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Corriere della Sera pages failing to load

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T345104

Hi, just to make WL aware, 99̤̥% of pages from Corriere della Sera archives https://archivio-corriere-it.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org do not load properly. In most cases the archive "loads" a grey page (example) in other it only loads the top of the page (example). --Cavarrone (talk) 08:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

This is a known issue that we've unfortunately been unable to resolve: T345104. We probably should have removed Archives as an available collection, actually. Let me follow up on that. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:11, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, I had checked the talk archives and found no prior discussion. Too bad there were no more updates about the voucher codes solution mentioned in T345104. I hope that the removal of the service can be avoided. Despite all the difficulties, failures and frustration, I still often use the archive through snippets on the search page, partially loading and (more rarely) fully loading pages (recent examples [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]). For someone mostly editing Italy-related topics in WP the archive is by far the most useful and rich resource in the Wikipedia Library. Cavarrone (talk) 14:55, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Annual Reviews fails

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T405561

The link https://www-annualreviews-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ now gives www.annualreviews.org Website is not accessible via this address. The site https://www.annualreviews.org/ is available. Johnjbarton (talk) 15:56, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@Johnjbarton: Thanks for the report - we'll look into it. Updates will be posted at T405561. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:43, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

deGruyter problems

Hi, today I tried to access some books on deGruyter from Firefox, but the page opened to a white screen with the message "HTTP header value exceeds the configured limit of 8192 characters". This error didn't appear on Safari.

Edited to add: even on Safari, many books that were available last week are listed as unlicensed. Biologo-in-erba (talk) 11:54, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@Biologo-in-erba This error is usually due to an issue with your cookies - please try deleting cookies for oclc.org and trying again. Unfortunately our access to De Gruyter just expired, so it won't be available at the moment anyway (T405707), but that's a separate issue to the one you're facing. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:22, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@Samwalton9 (WMF) Thank you! Biologo-in-erba (talk) 13:35, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Blocked from Wikipedia Library

Hi everyone, I'm blocked from Wikipedia Library, since the edit counter is counting my recent edits as "negative edits" and my edit count is therefore below zero. Is someone experiencing the same issue? Is someone able to solve it? Friniate (talk) 11:11, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

I can log in to the Wikipedia Library. Are you having any other problems, e.g., that make you think you should restart your web browser or w:en:Wikipedia:Bypass your cache? WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:04, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

No, not at all, I've also tried to access the wikipedia library in incognito mode and even so I'm experiencing the same problem: wikipedia reads my edits as if they were negative edits, therefore I've minus ten thousand recent edits, below zero. Friniate (talk) 17:07, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

This is probably phab:T404708, which should resolve itself in a couple of days. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:30, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I have the same issue perhaps because I changed my username a few months ago. My recent edits is in the range of negative 1600s. However, I do have +5 edits in the last month, and it still does not allow me access. Astra Travasso (talk) 08:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

de Gruyter completely unlicensed

De Gruyter reports for everything: unlicensed. I tested access with several browsers, unfortunately without success. I also cleared the browser cache several times, without effect.

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/document/doi/10.1515/9783111388465-007/html

Sie haben derzeit keinen Zugang zu diesem Inhalt.

You currently do not have access to this content. Ettiwdreg (talk) 22:43, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T405707

@Ettiwdreg, ich glaube, dass das Abonnement letzte Woche für alle leider abgelaufen ist. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:20, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I have the same problem. I wanted to access Artists of the World, and nothing. I really need this database. Can something be done about this?--Nous (talk) 07:01, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, just to register it another source they have which I use a lot is the online version of the de:Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, now the en:Germanische Altertumskunde Online .--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 13:08, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

This source is also unlicensed. So what a difference this make?--Nous (talk) 17:20, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

That is the message we are seeing right? I think that it means our subscription is not working for these materials. Free/open materials are still available.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 21:10, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

The least is free material. Only a few open access books and paratexts (en:Book_design#Front_matter) are free. Most of the material is not licensed, regardless of whether it is part of a book/magazine or a database.

https://www-degruyterbrill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/search?documentVisibility=all&query=Runeninschriften+&pageSize=100&sortBy=mostrecent Ettiwdreg (talk) 23:19, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Please try to resolve this problem with de Gruyter. The de Gruyter Brill access is extremely valuable due to the great reference works they offer. --Jossi2 (talk) 19:28, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Not able to access degruyterbrill dictionary content

I am trying to access the content of GD – Wörterbuch Altgriechisch-Deutsch Online, which I was able to access until some weeks ago, but now I see the below when I click on the search results:

Unlicensed Published by De Gruyter 2023 (Print 2023) Not sure if you should have access? Please log in using an institutional account to see if you have access to view or download this content.

I confirm that I can access other content by degruyterbrill. Spiros71 (talk) 08:48, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I'm here for quite the same reason. Few minutes ago, I was searching for a source to verify the notability of an artist, I usually use the De Gruyer Brill links via THe Wikipedia Library for this, but today I cannot access pages as I used to, even logged in as wikipedian I can't have access to pages [10] [11] ("Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online" and "Italian Biographical Archive"). The banner shows:

Not sure if you should have access? Please log in using an institutional account to see if you have access to view or download this content.

A lock and the texte Unlicensed are also shown.

I am astonished. Una tantum (talk) 09:04, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Samwalton9 (WMF), if the contract expired, maybe we should remove/hide https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/105/ from https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/? That would help editors understand that it's "gone" instead of "broken". WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:01, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I've added a note there - it's not gone-gone, we're just awaiting renewal. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 07:57, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Edit: Sorry, I didn't see this thread, so let me add my comment to this one. Is the contract with De Gruyter really expired? That would be awful!: Hi, the AKL, through The Wikipedia Library's De Gruyter subscription, was and is a very important and useful resource for my WP work and, I assume, everyone working about artists in German in general. Today I wasn't able to access the AKL anymore. Neither the scanned book version, nor the online version can be accessed be me - did anthing change about the cooperation with De Gruyter, or is it just me?

When going to degruyter.com/akl, the page says "Wikipedia does not have access to this resource". When looking for the book version on the De Gruyter Brill website through the WP Library link, it shows me all books with the comment "Nur in gedruckter Form" ('only in printed version').

Since the merger of De Gruyter and Brill, their homepage changed a lot. When searching for any broad term, e.g., "Maria", and turning on the filter "Lizenziert" ('licenced') - which I would understand to be all books that the WPL users have access to - 0 books show up. Under "Alle zugänglichen Inhalte" I get shown only Open Access books - but those are accessible for everyone, even without WP Library.

Thanks for looking into it! Fuchs B (talk) 13:48, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@Fuchs B, yes, it seems the contract expired in September. The question is whether we will get a new contract. I'm sure the WMF shouldn't publicly say anything about contract negotiations. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:38, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know! I hope WMF can make it happen... Fuchs B (talk) 21:39, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

e-Yearbooks expired

The account to e-Yearbooks is showing as expired on September 9 2025. TrbleClef (talk) 23:02, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

ACM Digital Library inaccessible

Hi, I was trying to access works through ACM Digital Library but rather than a download or access button, I'm seeing buy or "ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? SIGN IN" So it seems like there is no access via WPL right now. Pingnova (talk) 22:16, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Seems to be working fine for me; is there something in particular you're not able to access? Nikkimaria (talk) 02:50, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

ProQuest newspaper database unavailable

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T409160 resolved

The newspaper archive of ProQuest became unavailable as of today. For example, this article, cited on w:en:Torbung page, is unavailable:

• https://www.proquest.com/docview/1758335208?sourcetype=Newspapers

I get a message saying:

We're sorry, your institution doesn't have access to this article through ProQuest.

You may have access to this article elsewhere through your library or institution, or try exploring related items you do have access to.

It would be a big loss if we can't get access to old newspaper articles! -- Kautilya3 (talk) 15:54, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm having the same issue, not only are the historical newspapers not available anymore, the magazines, journals and other documents we used to have access to, are no longer available as well. The only database I get now is "Education Research Index" - the education research database produced by the U.S. Department of Education.Isaidnoway (talk) 21:53, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

I encountered the same problem. Any help will be appreciated, as the old newspapers (especially back issues of The New York Times) are valuable resources. Teblick (talk) 03:29, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

• Update: The link I mentioned above is accessible again. The problem might have been fixed. Please check. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:30, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

This should now be resolved. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:36, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Corriere della Sera

I should have this newspaper in my library, but I'm not able to access to his archive? Any solution how to do? Thanks Bramfab (talk) 15:14, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Bramfab I am just a passing by, and my hunch tells me the archive is managed by Fondazione Corriere della Sera, no?

A wilder idea is:

1. Have you tried searching for the article title +Corriere della Sera on Internet Archive? (wikidata Q102319593).

Cheers, -- Omotecho (talk) 07:23, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion, but Internet archive does not cover the whole archive of the newspaper, starting from the XIX century.

In addition this archive is listed in my library, after my request. Bramfab (talk) 10:59, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Oxford Academic don't work right

Hello! Oxford Academic is not functioning right. I am unable to access some books. For example, ‘The Chrysidid Wasps of the World’ (https://academic-oup-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/book/54268?searchresult=1) I hope someone can assist me... Kogge (talk) 06:40, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

@Kogge Hi, we usually don't have access to 100% of what's available on each publisher's website. In this case we have access to most of Oxford's content but not everything, including this book. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 11:31, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

In this case I will try to become the book at a library. Thank you anyway, Kogge Kogge (talk) 14:55, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Publishers Extra content in Newspapers.com unavailable

Today I've been denied access to Publishers Extra content. When I click on a search result I am invited to sign up for a 7 day free trial. HazelAB (talk) 15:24, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Africa Intelligence description

"This collection gives access to the [English/French] edition of Africa Intelligence" doesn't have a period at the end of it like the other descriptions do. Such a tiny thing, but I figured I'd mention it. Huge thanks to everyone who maintains this resource! TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 18:23, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Newspapers.com renewal application

Hello! I was wondering what the expected timeline is for renewal applications for Newspapers.com access. Last year my initial application was approved within two days, but this year my application has been pending for more than a week. There's no urgency for this request, but I would like to know when I can expect to resume my current editing, as I've grown accustomed to using this resource in my work. Thank you so much! Engrigg22 (talk) 23:15, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

The renewal has been approved -- thank you all so much!! Engrigg22 (talk) 01:58, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

The BMJ is inaccessible

Hello, just found out that the BMJ is not working at the moment :( Antya Anantari (talk) 08:27, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Gale Wikipedia Library: "Max challenge attempts exceeded"

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T410134

I'm unable to access any of the resources at https://www-galepages-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/wikipedia I get the error "Max challenge attempts exceeded. Please refresh the page to try again!" but reloading the page doesn't seem to help. Piecesofuk (talk) 17:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@Piecesofuk: This is a known issue which we're working on fixing with Gale. Progress will be updated at T410134. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 11:59, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the update, I'll keep an eye on the Phabricator task Piecesofuk (talk) 12:49, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Grove returning Page Not Found errors

When I search for a topic in Grove online and click on one of the results I get a Page Not Found error. For example, I looked up "Georg Bohm" and it gave me this link, which doesn't work. The two featured articles on the front page (e.g. Economic Ethnomusicology) are still accessible. --*Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page ♮ 22:46, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

This link seems to work? Nikkimaria (talk) 03:49, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@Nikkimaria That still shows a Page Not Found error for me. --*Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page ♮ 08:19, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Might be something specific to your computer, then - try clearing cache/cookies or using a different browser? Nikkimaria (talk) 15:25, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

I noticed the very same issue, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411915. Clearing cache and cookies resolved the problem for me. FordPrefect42 (talk) 12:01, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Forgot to reply, yes, clearing the cookies fixed the issue. --*Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page ♮ 15:00, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia Library user survey launching soon

This is just a quick notice to let you know about an upcoming survey we plan to send to Wikipedia Library users within the next week. The survey will be sent via email to all users who have logged in to The Wikipedia Library and were eligible to access content from it when they did so. Our current tentative launch date is this Friday, 12th December, but it's possible this could shift to next week. Please let me know if you have any questions. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 15:10, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Please find a reliable fashion history/textile source

Hello,

Library is probably the most incredible tool that exists within all of WikiMedia, hands down. Thank you to everyone who is responsible for making this happen.

To whom it may concern,

Please look into how we can get access to one of these sources:

https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=379166&p=2567626

Guylaen (talk) 10:24, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

The library already includes several of those? Eg Oxford Art Online, Art Source, Academic Search Complete. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:48, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Available collections?

The page https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ puzzles me. The main area is clear: a button for each publisher. But across the top is

• Favorites (18) My Collections (82) Available Collections (32)

What does that mean? How can I find out if a particular publisher participates? I thought that https://royalsocietypublishing.org/ did but maybe not. Johnjbarton (talk) 03:23, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

"Favorites" is ones that you 'star' yourself. 'My Collections' is usable by you right now. 'Available' items require some sort of application process.

If you scroll down, you'll find searching/filtering options in the sidebar. Searching for the word 'royal', it looks like https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/20/ is the one you are looking for. It requires an application. Most applications are approved, though there can be a waitlist for very popular ones. WhatamIdoing (talk) 08:53, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

cancel Termsoup

Hello, I have tried Termsoup. But it hasn't helped me much, so I would like to return it. Is that possible? Regards, Kogge (talk) 09:54, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

British newspaper archive - Thank you!!

Just wanted to add a massive thank you for everyone who worked on getting the British newspaper archive back on the library. Since it's been back I've found it invaluable in finding Welsh topics that weren't covered by the other resources. So glad to access to this resource and so grateful for everything the library team does! Sleepytimecat (talk) 12:20, 30 December 2025 (UTC)