While very good & extensive, this page leaves out a species of tools for research that even people who achieve a college degree are not aware exists: specialized bibliographies, handlists, & periodic reviews of the secondary literature. These are compiled either exhaustively or selected against a stated set of criteria for use of other researchers, sometimes with comments about the value or scope of the item. Handlists tend to be less formal & complete than bibliographies, & periodic reviews appear in the more influential serials. Examples of these include:

• The MLA International Bibliography -- published annually & available online. Scholarly articles on literary topics ranging from Shakespeare & Homer to pop literature to works written in less familiar foreign languages. (I was able to use it to find articles on works in African languages.) Link to the bibliography web page
• Years' Work in English Studies -- also published annually (okay, it used to be), is selective in scope & concentrates on English Literature. Offers critical commentary on the publications collected. link to site
• Journal of Roman Studies every five years publishes a survey of work done on the epigraphy related to the history of Rome from c. 600 BC to c. AD 600
• Britannia has an annual review of publications on not only epigraphy related to Roman England, but archaeological findings in Britain both published & announced.
• Gnomon is a review journal on Classical studies. Although edited & published in Germany, reviews written in German, English, French, Italian and Latin are accepted for publication.
• Byzantische Zeitschrift is known for its extensive, if not exhaustive, annual review of publications on the Byzantine Empire (loosely defined) in multiple languages.
• An example of a specialized bibliography is Hermann Bengtson [de], Introduction to ancient history (6th edition has been translated into English by R. I. Frank and Frank D. Gilliard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970 ISBN 0520017234). It concentrates heavily on publications in German, & is a bit dated, but German academics have lead the way in Classical studies for centuries.

Sorry to offer a narrow selection of examples, but this is based on my own idiosyncratic interests. Any competent librarian ought to be able to offer similar resources in the field of your interests. -- llywrch (talk) 17:08, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi llywrch, you've created a great list, but wouldn't it be better placed at WP:FIND? This page is meant to help people who've already identified a source to be able to obtain a copy of it, whereas that page is to help people find sources to begin with. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:04, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't sure which page to add this to. Feel free to move it there. -- llywrch (talk) 06:02, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like that page mentions bibliographies already, although not in much detail. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:26, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a way to search for WP articles that *use* a particular source (say, a particular book). I tried <<insource:\{{cite book.*\|[\s]*title[\s]*=[\s]*$1" but got an error.

(I know - curse of the Internet - this is surely answered many times in many places if I just knew the right string to put into Google.) Jimw338 (talk) 15:55, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How should Bypass Paywalls Clean (a browser extension that circumvents paywalls on news websites) be listed in Wikipedia:Find your source § Newspaper articles? — Newslinger talk 06:04, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Option 1 (adapted from Special:Permalink/1081572939):

Use the Bypass Paywalls Clean browser extension to bypass paywalls on a number of news websites.

Option 2 (adapted from the guide's introductions to Sci-Hub and Library Genesis):

Note that tools like Bypass Paywalls Clean offer free and direct access to paywalled news articles, but there are legal questions about their use and neither the Wikimedia Foundation nor the Wikipedia community endorses them.

Option 3: Do not list Bypass Paywalls Clean on this page.

— Newslinger talk 06:04, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Option 1. Bypass Paywalls Clean (BPC) is an immensely useful tool for accessing reliable news sources that are locked behind paywalls. I have used this browser extension to access thousands of news articles for the purpose of researching article subjects, adding citations to articles, and verifying existing citations. BPC supports hundreds of news websites, whereas it is only feasible for the average Wikipedia editor to maintain subscriptions to a fraction of the supported sites.
  Although the extension has been targeted by DMCA takedowns, these takedowns are not court judgments; the DMCA takedown process has been used to remove perfectly legal content from the Internet on numerous occasions. BPC does not do anything that you cannot legally do yourself. For example, it is not illegal to clear your browser cookies or to use your browser's JavaScript-free reader mode to bypass a paywall; BPC simply does it for you automatically when it is needed to access the page. — Newslinger talk 06:04, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• It seems to me that, as long as no copyright is violated, the question of using BPC (of which I never had heard, and never had used) barely arises. Consider: suppose I pick up a copy of a publication in a library, or even hear its text read out to some third party by a validly subscribing reader, then as long as I refrain from printing significant sections of the text, as a reviewer should refrain, and from plagiarising the work or representing it as my own, or misrepresenting it, there is no offence. As long, in particular, as I cite the work correctly, it is in fact to the advantage of the publisher and the author. If it had been the case that the work were confidential or legally classified as secret, that would be another matter, but then it shopuld not have been published at all, even behind a paywall.
  Accordingly, I would go favour option 1, possibly elaborated more or less as follows:
  Use the Bypass Paywalls Clean browser extension to bypass paywalls on a number of news websites, but pay particular attention to obeying the rules of fair use for purposes of review or similar functions.
  JonRichfield (talk) 11:18, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Option 3 I know Wikipedia has a strong libertarian bent, but we shouldn't be encouraging people to violate websites' terms and conditions using Wikipedia's voice. --Ahecht (TALK
  PAGE) 15:24, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Option 3 per Ahecht. Also, per WP:ELNEVER Knowingly directing others to material that violates copyright might be considered contributory copyright infringement. Linking to the extension is not exactly the same, but we should not be encouraging readers and editors to bypass paywalls this way. Otherwise, why not mention other workarounds such as VPNs for geography restricted links, etc? RudolfRed (talk) 15:43, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Option 3. We should not knowingly promote the general use of tools that are frequently used in violation of a website's terms and their ordinary expectations. Also, a lot of paywalled sources are available in Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library, and folks at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request are often willing to check a source for you, so we usually have good alternatives. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:24, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Option 1.5: "Note that BPC exists to bypass paywalls." That's all that needs to be said. My reasoning is posted in the discussion section. SamuelRiv (talk) 19:30, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Option 3. Fram (talk) 07:51, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Depending on the website, Bypass Paywalls Clean (BPC) works around paywalls by using techniques such as disabling JavaScript, clearing cookies for the site to reset your article view count, redirecting to the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) version of the page, providing a link to archive.today, or telling your browser to pretend to be Googlebot.
  The source code of BPC is currently available in the project's GitHub repository for public inspection. — Newslinger talk 06:04, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notified Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). — Newslinger talk 06:11, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• I haven't decided where I stand yet, but I suggest people read Lock picking. That's another area where how you intend to use something is a factor in whether it's legal to possess it or not. I do have to take exception to JonRichfield's comment that it is in fact to the advantage of the publisher and the author. Copyright is a thing whether you like it or not. Option 1 is clearly not viable, but I could see myself supporting either option 2 or 3. RoySmith (talk) 14:06, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• I want to throw my reasoning for my !vote first here in case there's something to pick over: Option 1.5: Note that BPC exists to bypass paywalls. That's all. Is it really accurate to say at this point that there are "legal questions about their use", when all I've seen from legal scholars and actual lawsuits is questions about archiving sites, reposting hosts, and facilitating tools themselves? Also, that we don't "endorse them" both seems kinda wp:mandy-ish to say at this point, and also, if the heap is made up of individual grains of sand, perhaps of questionable accuracy as well (it's not true enough, but the opposite statement is not true enough either). SamuelRiv (talk) 15:42, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• People here may be interested in the discussion at Talk:Bypass Paywalls Clean#Website links as well. Fram (talk) 07:52, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]