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Access to a major Australian dictionary; Macquarie or AND
I am looking for access to a major Australian dictionary (Macquarie or Australian National Dictionary preferred, but I will consider others as long as it is not online-only or crowd-sourced) in an effort to ascertain whether the term 'defrocked' or 'laicised' is more appropriate in the context of a Catholic priest being stripped of his right to conduct a church service. While I'm not particularly fussed about exact edition, it should be somewhat recent to help establish modern usage pattern.
Thanks, Melmann (talk) 09:39, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Australian Oxford Dictionary does not offer a recommendation on preferred option, so I would still like input from Macquarie or AND. Hence, I won't mark it resolved just yet, but will do so if there are no further responses in a day or two. Melmann (talk) 11:24, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Melmann, The Australian national dictionary: Australian words and their origins, 2nd edn 2016, has no entry on either of the two terms; Macquarie dictionary, 4th edn 2005, has entries on both, and I've sent you a copy. (The most recent - 7th - edn (2017) is currently tagged as "in acquisition" in our library catalogue, and thus might become available here in a couple of weeks, but I do not currently have access to it; if you need a more recent edition, someone else might be able to help.) — Pajz (talk) 07:51, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, the book arrived late, so I didn't get a chance to scan it on Monday. I'll check again tomorrow. (Not quite sure what the reason for these delays recently is, I guess I'll be a little bit more conservative with my estimates going forward.) Best, — Pajz (talk) 18:38, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose I can send you #1 from the print edition - should be in Who Was Who 4.1941/50 (1952) if I'm understanding our Who's Who article correctly. I'll try to take a look tomorrow or on Friday. — Pajz (talk) 21:54, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
There are two deadlinks in the safety of e-cigs article. I would like to read a copy of both articles and fix the deadlinks. QuackGuru (talk) 06:02, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@QuackGuru:Sent archived copies. Here are the archive urls:
Brunei Darussalam Statistical Yearbook 2017. Bandar Seri Begawan: Department of Statistics, Deparment of Economic Planning and Development, Ministry of Finance and Economy. 2018. p. 213. ISBN978-99917-72-14-1.
Hello, I am looking for Ken Plummer's article "Book Reviews", published in Theory, Culture & Society, Volume 8, Issue 1, 1991, ISSN0263-2764, 1460-3616 for use at the article Homosexuality: A Philosophical Inquiry. DOI: 10.1177/026327691008001010. There is a link to an excerpt from the article here.
Sigh. The citation was originally a Google Scholar item and I can't find it back. And apparently this website is so poorly designed that you can't find the page from the URL by searching. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:47, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Jo-Jo Eumerus:Sent three pages from the Illustrated London News, 8 February 1964 – I think that is what you're after. I registered myself, giving me free access to three pages, which I've probably already used up now! —Bruce1eetalk10:19, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"The Role and Tasks of the Trade Unions", with a preface dated December 25, 1920. Authored by Leon Trotsky on behalf of “a number of responsible workers”.
Also, the pamphlet was a slightly edited version of a 'preliminary draft of theses' entitled The trade unions and their future role per this. The latter (written in Russian) will suffice for me and may be located at Tenth Party Congress, app.10, p.786 per this.
@Winged Blades of Godric: You mean, the piece that left V. I. Lenin "amazed at the number of theoretical mistakes and glaring blunders it contains", and led him to question "how could anyone starting a big Party discussion on this question produce such a sorry excuse for a carefully thought out statement?" ;) ——SerialNumber5412911:12, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yep:-( Was writing a draft of 2 articles around this aspect (off-wiki) and need to read the exact stuff, that Trostsky wrote, to clear my own understanding. ∯WBGconverse11:19, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging Tovarishch Timbo, who, if he can't source it for you, may know why it's not at Marxists.org; he may also be able to clarify whether it's contained within Trotsky's Selected Writings or those Chinese pamphlets which republished Lenin (although not sure they did Trotsky too?). But if it's in either of those I should be able to scan for you (depending on how long it takes to dig the bloody things out). In the meantime, Blades, I've sent you something you linked too. Remember to check boîte de spam. ——SerialNumber5412911:57, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ooo, a Trotsky bibliography question: nice! I take it from this page that you are trying to locate a copy of this pamphlet, yes? Opening statement: for all the Trotsky works published, shelves of them, not all the early stuff is accessible and certainly not all of it is translated. After 1929 the situation is much better. But you know that. Okay, first I'll dig out Sinclair... Thank you for that date of the intro, that makes the process easy... Sinclair has it listed as 210000(13) Rol' i zadachi professionalnykh soiuzov with seven reprints up to 1922, all Russian pamphlet editions it would seem. German translations to something listed as RussKor (1921) and RussRund (1922). I'm seeing no evidence that it has ever been reprinted after 1922, nor any translation into English via Inprecorr, which sucks. That bibliography was published in 1989, so there is a chance of a post-Soviet period reissue, but I would not bank on it. Carr could be counted on for at least a summary if it was after 1923, when his detail started to get finer. Sorenson Life and Death of Soviet Trade Unionism only lists English titles by Trotsky in the bibliography, plus the (incomplete) Russian Sochineniia, which probably does not include it or it would have showed up there in Sinclair. Nor did it run in serial in Pravda, seemingly, which would be another way to get there through microfilm. Awww, hell, lemme check Carr just to be sure... There's a ton of coverage of soviet unions (The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923: Volume 2 is where to look, but the index for that is at the end of vol. 3) but nothing obviously relating to the pamphlet you seek. I struck out running the title at MIA as well, but didn't really expect to find it there given the rarity of the item and lack of post-1922 reprints. Last hope is a Russian search... Hmmm, that's not a zero at least. WorldCat shows four holdings of the 1920 edition (https://www.worldcat.org/title/rol-i-zadachi-professionalnykh-soiuzov-k-10-mu-sezdu-partii/oclc/123222135&referer=brief_results) with Stanford having actually committed the 32-page pamphlet to microfilm (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q=123222135) -- this film also being held by Oxford University, it would seem. That's about $100 to obtain through their microforms department, as far as I know they are still selling film but many institutions have now stopped. Also one copy of the 1921 edition in existence at Cambridge. Some remote chance you could get it cheaper than that from Stanford as a pdf dub of film. Some even more remote chance I will make it to Stanford this summer to play and could scan it up if I do, as long as you remind me.
P.S. This appears to have been a pamphlet written FOR the 10th Party Congress. Full title: Rolʹ i zadachi professionalʹnykh soi︠u︡zov. - K 10-mu sʹezdy partii.Carrite (talk) 15:50, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Serial Number 54129, I wouldn't phrase it exactly like that, but that's the idea. He was in exile, everything he wrote was carefully preserved and generally published by his followers, and there was no worry about censorship vanishing material. This is why Pathfinder's Writings of Leon Trotsky starts with 1929 and runs through his murder in 1940, while the earlier material is very thin in depth of coverage and is generally limited to published books, rather than speeches and pamphlets. Even the two volumes of his (partial, not completed) Sochineniia [Collected Works] for 1917 haven't been translated or republished even today -- except for the very famous long intro, Lessons of October. It's a weird situation, in which the later material is more or less totally available while some of the earlier stuff is STILL virtually "lost." Carrite (talk) 16:18, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers Carrite: I'm afraid I don't speak a word :) Latin is bad enough, and at least that's in the same script :) on a lighter note (*trivia alert*) I won the complete set of the PathfinderWritings in a raffle at their bookshop in The Cut over 20 years ago. Now I feel old. ——SerialNumber5412916:34, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Carrite, hm, is that https://www.prlib.ru/item/764123 and/or https://www.prlib.ru/item/751935 (via Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library)? If I understand this correctly, these works are digitised and accessible from the reading room of the Presidential Library as well as from one of the "Remote access centers" (as listed on the map at the bottom; most are in Russia, but some are located in other parts of the world). (Apparently there's also a terminal in my library that provides access to their electronic collection, though I don't think I can help here since I speak no Russian whatsoever and therefore don't think I would be able to use it.) — Pajz (talk) 16:58, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, great find, Pajz, that's the item! The one American location is something called the "Russian Cultural Center' in Washington, DC. Now, is that actually digitized and downloadable? Don't know. But if you can score a pdf, that would get us there... Роль и задачи профессиональных союзов is the title in Cyrillic... Carrite (talk) 17:50, 28 June 2019 (UTC) (The first link is the correct item, the second is to a joint reprint with Lenin which may or may not be complete.)[reply]
Carrite (Winged Blades of Godric), ok, so I didn't have much time but I did check and as far as I could see, there is a digital version available (again, I don't speak Russian, but the title on the front cover matches the one you mentioned, so I suppose I was looking at the right thing). I browsed through it using some sort of custom viewer, however, I saw no way to initiate a download and/or print it out. I thought perhaps it's possible to take a screenshot using Windows' Snipping Tool, but the feature is inaccessible on the machine and, aside from that, I don't know how I would proceed from there anyway as I'm apparently not allowed to use a USB flash drive and the rest of the internet is inaccessible from the computer. I'm going to email the library's Eastern Europe department and ask if they know of a way to create a copy, but I'm not very hopeful. — Pajz (talk) 15:55, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Very cool, Pajz. A set of 32 screen captures might work. Librarians make idiotic rules, scholars figure out how to work around them — USB stealth probably the play. Carrite (talk) 16:30, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be very happy to digitally edit, convert to pdf, and put it up on the internets. Also suggest a set of digital photos, which would work fine and may well be okay by library rules... Carrite (talk) 16:35, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Winged Blades of Godric: Well, yes and no. As I suspected, I cannot send you a copy because unfortunately I cannot make one, and I cannot help you locate the relevant part because I speak no Russian. Best, — Pajz (talk) 15:20, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Bruce1ee, I was checking a number of times for the last 15 mins and found no mail from you. Thank you for informing and will sit tight and wait for the article. thank you. CASSIOPEIA(talk)14:07, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@CASSIOPEIA: Sorry, I still can't get my mail to work – I don't know what's wrong with it. I'll try again later, but if someone else would like to pick up this request, feel free to carry on. —Bruce1eetalk15:05, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I need an article "19th Century Gujarati Literature: A Study of Its Contact with Western Literature' written by Sitanshu Yashaschandra. It was published in the 'Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature' ISSN0970-0692. From this Google book snippet, it is obvious that the article was appeared between the four issues (volumes 24 to 29). I don't have further information.
If possible, please also provide me one more article "Emergence of Modernism in Gujarati Poetry and the Western Influence" from the same. --Gazal world (talk) 15:28, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I will be going to JU, sometime around two months from now; that's a certain way out. I happen to know one of the current editors (presuming that the details over their website is correct), personally and will see, as to whether it can speed this up. ∯WBGconverse09:55, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. I'm looking for a 1971 New York Times article on Mildred Williams, a Canadian harness racer. This HOF page suggests the article talks about how she was "a woman of class, a hard worker and a driver who wouldn’t take a back seat to anyone." Problem is, searching in the Times Machine gives me nothing for her in 1971. I also don't have an exact date or title of the article. Could anyone help track this article down? I wouldn't be surprised if the year is off. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@MrLinkinPark333: Is it possible that the newspaper that article refers to is not The New York Times, but another newspaper? I found several articles on her from 1971 in other newspapers at NewspaperArchive.com and Newspapers.com, including this one from The Times Record, although I don't think that is what you're after. I also found this which may be of interest to you. —Bruce1eetalk15:24, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Bruce1ee: Hmm I don't know. The HOF specifically said new york times. I already got the harness museum one thanks! The Times record one might be useful for me, so I bookmarked it. Newspapers.com and Newspaperarchive.com doesn't have New York times from 1971 so I can't be 100% sure if that isn't the case. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:57, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You're probably right that it is The New York Times, but the question remains, why doesn't the 1971 article show up in the TimesMachine? According to this, it has every issue between 1851 and 2002. —Bruce1eetalk17:21, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see anything over the archives in a ~10 year range and am inclined to close this request as un-successful. Also, the one who wrote the article and that phrase was sheer shoddy in his task; good bibliographic practices are recommended for a reason.~ Winged BladesGodric13:19, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Lucko, Paul M (2017). "Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 120 (4): 533-534.
Worley, Robert (April 2017). "Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo". Theory in Action. 10 (2). Transformative Studies Institute. ((cite journal)): Cite has empty unknown parameter: |page81-88= (help)
Hello, I am looking for Camelia Raghinaru's article "Messianism and the Abject: Reading D. H. Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent", for use at The Plumed Serpent. Publication details: Studies in the Novel, Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2014 pp. 20-43. DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2014.0029. There is an excerpt from the article here.
Hello, I am looking for the text of Lucio Angelo Privitello's article "Teaching Marcuse", for use at the article Eros and Civilization. Publication details: Radical Philosophy Review, Volume 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-122. DOI: 10.5840/radphilrev201316113. ISSN1569-1659, 1388-4441 There is a link to an excerpt from the article here. Note that EBSCO has only a brief abstract of the article, not its full text.
Hello, I am looking for Nora Marisa Leon-Real Mendez's article "The textual function of topographic space in D.H. Lawrence's the plumed serpent", for use at The Plumed Serpent. Publication details: Signa 23(23):545-562 · January 2014. There is an abstract of the article here.
@FreeKnowledgeCreator: Is this what you're after? Clicking on "Documento.pdf" gives you what looks like the full article, although it is in Spanish. —Bruce1eetalk06:21, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. It was what I was after. I don't read Spanish, however. If anyone wanted to find an English-language version, that'd be very welcome. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 06:24, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Actually forget it. The article has a brief English abstract and that's sufficient for my purposes. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 08:55, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Vyacheslav84, IOR = India Office Records, held by the British Library. More specifically, this one here is from vol 63 of the Political and Secret Department Records ("IOR/L/PS") covering the period between May-Sep 1891. Many of these documents already exist in digital form (in particular, as part of the Qatar Digital Library) but alas I haven't found a copy of the one you are looking for (ie, IOR/L/PS/7/63/1295). The British Library catalogue entry for IOR/L/PS/7/63/* is here (I currently cannot access the BL's archive browser to verify that this particular document is in the collection). Note that a selection of documents from the Political and Secret Department Records has been published in microfiche form but it does not look like that the one of interest to you is part of it, see here. As to the Kandahar Newsletter itself, I'm not really sure what that is, but it appears that it does exist as a standalone work, see this catalogue entry (National Defence University Library Islamabad). I haven't found any other record. Unless someone here who occasionally visits the British Library can help (or someone has a better idea), if I were you I would just write a short email to library staff in Islamabad and ask them if there's any way to order a copy because you need it for Wikipedia but unfortunately cannot find it anywhere. If they actually hold a copy, I think you're in with a chance of getting a free scan. Or, of course, you request it from the British Library yourself (fees apply). Best, — Pajz (talk) 15:59, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Vyacheslav84, looks like you're in luck. I asked the British Library, APAC Reference Services, earlier today if 1295 is a page number (yes, it is), just so we know where to look, and they responded with a scan of the whole document. Check your email. — Pajz (talk) 17:30, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I am looking for J. Patrick Gray's article "Signs of the Flesh: An Essay on the Evolution of Hominid Sexuality. Daniel Rancour‐Laferriere.", for use at Signs of the Flesh. Publication details: American Anthropologist, Volume 89, Issue 1 March 1987, Pages 234-235. DOI: 10.1525/aa.1987.89.1.02a00980. There is a relevant link here.
Hello, I am looking for two reviews of Signs of the Flesh, for use at the article Signs of the Flesh.
The first is by David M. Buss. It was published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Volume 62, Number 3. DOI: 10.1086/415602. There is a link to an excerpt from the article here.
The second is by Charles Crawford. It was published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Volume 68, Number 1. DOI: 10.1086/418014. There is a link to an excerpt from the article here.
Firkins, Peter C. (1983). Of Nautilus and Eagles: History of the Royal Australian Navy. Richmond, Victoria: Hutchinson. pp. 113–117. ISBN978-0-09-148290-9.
Peacemaker67, sent. — Pajz (talk) 16:00, 6 August 2019 (UTC) (By the way, the ISBN is 0-09-148290-9 (there were no 13-digit ISBNs in 1983 and while they can, in theory, be converted back-and-forth, some library catalogues are incapable of doing that, which to a certain extent defeats the purpose of providing the ISBN in the first place; see also the instructions at Template:Cite book#Identifiers). Best, — Pajz (talk) 17:33, 6 August 2019 (UTC))[reply]
@MrLinkinPark333: I have ProQuest copies of those articles which I can send to you. They're the full text (no pictures), so I'm not sure why you need the online versions. I can't find the Gale copies, so I can't compare them with the ProQuest versions. —Bruce1eetalk06:44, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Farrokh, Kaveh. Iran at War: 1500–1988. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN978-1-78096-221-4.
Does anyone have access to this document for Operation Mersad? Google book has it but unfortunately is not free. I need to be sure that referred material to this book into article, really they exist into the source.
Saff V., the preview, however, is free (https://books.google.de/books?id=TVObCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover), and may enable you to identify the pages that you need. (There seems to be a full copy on academia.org, which, however, looks like it has been put there illegally.) Generally, the odds that you can get a complete book through this page are not particularly good. The number of institutions that provide (1) full electronic access to a given work, through a platform (2) which allows for a full PDF download and (3) which permits the transmission of that PDF to a third party, is usually not very high. (The transmission of full copies of works is not typically covered by fair use/dealing or private copying exceptions that would otherwise allow people to send you a short extract from the work.) That said, I'm pretty sure that if you need a particular chapter/page range, we will be able to help you. Best, — Pajz (talk) 18:50, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is not available on the internet, as far as I can see. I was just inviting opinions on whether that is indeed the work that the iranicaonline.org article refers to (I'm not sure it is) -- perhaps someone reading along knows more. (The Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan is available in my library, so that is something I could help with.) — Pajz (talk) 18:49, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Cazacu, Matei (1984). "Les parentés byzantines et ottomanes de l'historien Laonikos Chalkokondylès (c. 1423-c.1470)". Turcica. 16: 95–114. ISSN0082-6847. also published as:
Cazacu, Matei (2015). "Les parentés byzantines et ottomanes de l'historien Laonikos Chalkokondylès (c. 1423-c.1470)". Au carrefour des empires et des mers: études d'histoire médiévale et moderne. Bucharest. pp. 425–442. ISBN978-973-27-2590-0.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Greetings, are there any chapters in [55] and/or [56] that deal with "Lunar Crater", "Lunar Lake", "Bea's Crater", "Easy Chair", "Marcath"? For Lunar Crater volcanic field
Pajz, MrLinkinPark333: Thank you! It seems I misunderstood the scope of the word "scan" there. I bought a copy of the book and found some other complementary sources through academic subscription. --MarioGom (talk) 20:07, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, I am looking for Paul Feyerabend's review of The Structure of Science, for use at the article The Structure of Science. Publication details: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 17, Issue 3, November 1966, Pages 237–249. DOI: 10.1093/bjps/17.3.237. There is a relevant link here.
@Pajz: Oh sorry! Well, if I had to pick a chapter, that would be. "1959-1965 : THE DESTRUCTION OF THE REPUBLIC." That is the most controversial period. Thanks for the quick reply! Cinadon3616:09, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
My mistake, the link was just the abstract. The full text is now here thanks for your help --[E.3][chat2][me]07:12, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I can't find that one. I have access to "Journal of Clinical Oncology 37 (15)", but not "Journal of Clinical Oncology 37 (15_suppl)". —Bruce1eetalk07:43, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
E.3, re #2: The full text is available through your link because the abstract is the full text. 37.2019,15_suppl is part of a sub-series titled "JCO Meeting Abstracts" and collects abstracts related to the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting I (see here). Even with access to ascopubs.org, there's nothing more to see, as you can also confirm by taking a look at the "page" before and the "page" following: "Page" 4009 is doi:10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.4009, "page" 4011 is doi:10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.4011. (In reality, these are not page numbers but abstract numbers, see https://abstracts.asco.org/239/AbstView_239_265245.html.) Meeting abstracts will often be followed at some later point by a publication, but that one is not it. — Pajz (talk) 08:49, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oh. I thought the full article would be availble but clearly its not published! sorry thanks --[E.3][chat2][me]09:33, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]