Wikipedia:Erudit

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Erudit
Sign up for free access to Erudit (Accounts available)

Account Coordinator: Benoit Rochon

Érudit is a Canadian web portal of scholarly materials. Its primary focus is the humanities and social sciences, but it also includes some publications in the physical and natural sciences. It includes content in both English and French. See its website for more information.

There are up to 50 one-year accounts available to Wikipedians through this partnership.

Requirements[edit]

• You have your preferences enabled to receive email messages on English Wikipedia or on your home wiki linked from your application; (see Special:Preferences)
• You have an account that is a minimum of 6 months old
• You have a minimum of 500 edits to the encyclopedia
• You do not already have access to this resource through another library or institution

If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered

Expectations[edit]

Approved editors may

• Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of restricted content;
• Electronically save portions of restricted content;
• Print out single copies of portions of restricted content;

Approved editors will not

• Share their account logins or passwords with others, or sell their access to other parties
• Mass scrape or mass download Erudit content
• Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose.
• Datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles.
• Violate any terms and conditions which appear on the particular pages of the Erudit website they are accessing.

Private and confidential information

• By applying to the Program, you understand and agree that your name and email address may be shared with representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation, The Wikipedia Library, and Erudit. Wikipedia Library organizers contracted under the Wikimedia Foundation will abide by the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy and associated confidentiality agreements. Volunteer representatives of the Wikipedia Library are neither employees nor contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation (or Erudit), but they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Citation[edit]

External video

Tutorial (in French)

• Editors should always provide original citation information in addition to linking to Erudit resources, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT.
• Editors should not provide bare links to restricted Erudit pages
• Note (subscription required) in the citation, where appropriate
• Respect the copyright of Erudit, in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright policy and their terms of use
• Cite resources in line with the citation examples provided below or with the examples provided by Erudit

Note that citation styles vary by article; editors can use the style most appropriate to the articles they are working with so long as the citations are complete.

Example

{{cite journal|author=Lombardo, Nicholas|title= White-Collar Workers and Neighbourhood Change|doi= 10.7202/1030804ar|journal=Urban History Review|year=2014|volume=43|issue=1|pages=5–19}} {{Subscription needed|via=[[Érudit]]}}

• Lombardo, Nicholas (2014). "White-Collar Workers and Neighbourhood Change". Urban History Review. 43 (1): 5–19. doi:10.7202/1030804ar.   – via Érudit (subscription required)

Further participation[edit]

You can help The Wikipedia Library share this partnership:

• Add {{Wikipedia:Erudit/Userbox}} to your user boxes. This helps us share our project with other experienced users.

Apply[edit]

What to expect with TWL account processing
	Make sure to read this before sending emails to account coordinators inquiring about your account status. Our current average account distribution cycle (from sign up to account access), is 27 days. We are working on improving this. Step 1: Application screening We will begin screening applicants within a few weeks of opening applications, usually as the number of applications approaches or exceeds the number of accounts available. At that time the account coordinator will place an {{Approved}} ( Approved), {{Unapproved}} ( Not approved)or {{ToBeDone}} ( Pending or waitlisted) status to your account. If you signed up after the initial call for applicants, process may not happen immediately if accounts are not available. Step 2: Email and Google Form After you have received approval for an account, you will be contacted via a Wikipedia email from the account coordinator; be sure to check your spam folder. The email will contain instructions for filling out a Google form with the required information for access. Step 3: Waiting for partners to activate accounts There are several steps of subsequent processing, including waiting for a batch of users to submit information, emailing partners, and waiting for partners to activate accounts. Expect this process to take as long as two weeks; we try to make it take less time, but there are a lot of variables at play. Step 4: Using access Once the account is activated either the volunteer coordinator or the partner will send you an email with access information. Follow the given instructions, and make sure to actively use your access to improve Wikipedia content! Changes coming soon We recognize this process can be frustrating and take a while: we think so too. We are in the process of developing a digital tool to make this process more user friendly and make it easier for us to give you access to partners. Interested in helping process accounts or coordinate Wikipedia Library activities? Apply at Wikipedia:TWL/Coordinators/Signup to become a volunteer account coordinator.
Stuck or need help? Try our IRC channel #wikipedia-library

Add yourself at the bottom of the list with a line starting with #{{user8|USERNAME|Project=code}} (eg. {{user8|Example|Project=en}}) followed by an explanation of why you would like access to this resource. It is a good idea to include in your application text your editing areas benefited by access and examples of your commitment to content creation. -->

1. Fenix down (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Would appreciate access to Érudite as I have created a large number of articles in the human geography space, particularly on arctic Russia. Access would be extremely useful, particularly to have access to Études/Inuit/Studies, a useful journal in this area and for wider human geography of the arcitc. Fenix down (talk) 18:26, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

   Approved. @Fenix down, check your email to complete your registration. Regards, Benoit Rochon (talk) 18:10, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

2. Bearcat (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Longtime user, active in article creation and referencing repair. As a Canadian with some French-language skills, one of the things I try to keep on top of is opportunities to remedy our noticeable undercoverage of Quebec-related topics — but with access to no French-language databases besides Google, and so many of the sources I can access through Google going paywall too, it can be a challenge sometimes. (Just look, for one example out of many, at the laughable volume of sourcing I actually had to depend upon to carry Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut.) I know this database won't solve every problem in that regard — I sure could still use some French newspaper database access — but it absolutely can't hurt to boost the number of French language sources I can at least try to dig into. Bearcat (talk) 00:06, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

   Approved. @Bearcat, check your email to complete your registration. Regards, --Benoit Rochon (talk) 23:47, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

3. InformationvsInjustice (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have been contributing more recently as part of a decision to increase my involvement in the community and improve content in the areas in which I have something to offer. I am involved in the Ancient Rome and Greece project. Inadequate sourcing is endemic in many of the pages of interest to the project. I have just finished a complete revision of the Romulus and Remus article and the creation of a separate Romulus article. I have J.D.. I have strong research and writing skills. All too often while editing, I find authorities online that I cannot access. Informata ob Iniquitatum (talk) 05:43, 30 November 2016 (UTC)