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Jamalon is the largest online bookstore in the Middle East, with titles in both Arabic and English. For more information see its website.

Jamalon is offering to ship physical books to 50 editors. Once they have completed development of their ebook platform, this partnership may be expanded to include ebook access.

Requirements

• 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

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 Jamalon 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 Jamalon 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 Jamalon. 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 Jamalon), but they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Citation

• Editors should always provide original citation information in addition to linking to Jamalon resources, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT.
• Editors should not provide bare links to restricted Jamalon pages
• Note (subscription required) in the citation, where appropriate
• Respect the copyright of Jamalon, 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 Jamalon

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 book|last1=Bourennane|first1=Ibrahim Mohamed Jaidah, Malika|title=The history of Qatari architecture from 1800 to 1950|date=2009|publisher=Skira|location=Milano|isbn=9788861307933|edition=1st}}

• Bourennane, Ibrahim Mohamed Jaidah, Malika (2009). The history of Qatari architecture from 1800 to 1950 (1st ed.). Milano: Skira. ISBN 9788861307933. 

Further participation

You can help The Wikipedia Library share this partnership:

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

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Applications can be submitted via Arabic Wikipedia