Wikipedia talk:Free online resources

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It seems to me that at the moment the function of this page is a little obscure: it seems to be a mix of links to useful resources that anyone can use and resources that require a subscription, that users with subscriptions are offering to use on other people's behalf.

I'd like to make a suggestion: that this page be expanded into a list of useful resources, both general and categorised by subject. For example, I can provide links to online resources which are enormously useful for physics, astronomy and geophysics, and I'm sure academics in other fields can do the same. It would be really good to have that kind of thing collated somewhere, and would be a big help in the drive to ensure articles are well references.

What does anyone else think? Worldtraveller 10:19, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Merge 2 Have a look on the German Bibliotheksrecherche 3 Resource Exchange 4 News agencies/Cox News Service

[edit] Merge

Wikipedia:Academic resources seems like the same idea under different name. What do you think?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 16:59, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Done. JesseW, the juggling janitor 20:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Have a look on the German Bibliotheksrecherche

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bibliotheksrecherche --Historiograf 02:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Resource Exchange

Well, it looks like a created a slightly redundant project. Here's the link: Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange‎. The scopes seem to be a little different... and the organization is quite different. Should we merge these projects? Should it be merged here or to the wikiproject? Recommendations would be appreciated. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 00:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

And a related suggestion at Template talk:Article resources#2 or 3 Additions to template?, mentioning possibly merging, or at least linking between the 2. Thanks :) --Quiddity 05:19, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] News agencies/Cox News Service

The link to Cox News Service seems to be broken at present, as does the link on the Cox Newspapers web site. I'm removing the reference for the moment, until the issue can be resolved.