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McFarland & Company (Website) is an academic publisher based in North Carolina, in the United States. The company publishes works on a wide variety of topics, and specializes in covering areas often underrepresented in academic literature, such as video games, sports and popular culture. They also publish in a wide variety of more traditional academic areas, such as history, military history, performing arts, medieval studies, film studies, and more. McFarland has offered to send Wikipedia editors electronic copies of books that will aid in Wikipedia article research. E-books are available in PDF and EPUB formats. PDFs will be emailed as attachments to the requester; EPUB requests can be filled through the Google Play service (Google Account required). McFarland books will be distributed on a per-title basis, up to a maximum of five titles per editor per calendar year.*

• Exceptions can be made - please email the account coordinator with your rationale for an extended limit

Process

Please look through McFarland's online catalogue (advanced search) to find books in your area of interest. Log your request in the section below, and send an email to the account coordinator (earleypathotmail.com). Please include the book title, year and the author's full name in the request, and use "McFarland" as a subject line. Your titles (in PDF), or an access code for Google Play (for EPUB) will be sent to you through email. Requests will processed in two to three weeks.

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

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

<ref> {{cite book |title=The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835–1920|author=Redmond, Patrick|isbn=978-1-4766-0584-5|publisher=McFarland & Company}}</ref>

• Redmond, Patrick. The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835–1920. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-0584-5. 

Further participation

You can help The Wikipedia Library share this partnership:

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

McFarland This user accesses McFarland ebooks via The Wikipedia Library.

Apply

Add yourself at the bottom of the list with a line starting with (eg. {{user8|Example|Project=en}}) followed by an explanation of what resource(s) you would like and for what purpose(s). It is a good idea to include in your application text your editing areas benefited by access to McFarland resources and examples of your commitment to content creation. Please specify the preferred format for your e-book, either PDF or EPUB (See "Process" section above).

1. Coemgenus (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I've been edited for 10 years and many of the articles I write are about 19th-century American politics. McFarland publishes some reference work I often have a hard time finding, including United States Congressional elections, 1788–1997 and United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861–1911. --Coemgenus (talk) 20:20, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
   • Very good, Coemgenus, email received. Approved The Interior (Talk) 17:05, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
2. Miyagawa (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) Over 7 years, with more than 49,000 edits. Majority of work is on pop culture, but I dabble in some random things on occasion. Previously had four books last June, and I'd like to request a fifth - Jeffrey Hunter [1]. Miyagawa (talk) 09:39, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

   Miyagawa, Approved, will send this in today. The Interior (Talk) 15:50, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

3. Wizardman (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) - Found a couple more that I know I could use to continue working on articles: [2] and [3]. In both cases the book includes article I've already started work on so I know I'd get use out of them. Wizardman 20:05, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

   Wizardman, Approved, will send this in today. The Interior (Talk) 15:50, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

4. NinjaRobotPirate (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email). I previously requested two e-books from McFarland in January 2015; they helped expand List of zombie films, which is primarily sourced to McFarland resources. I have recently expanded Hellraiser IV: Bloodline with The Hellraiser Films and their Legacy by Paul Kane, which was accessed through Google Books. I would like to expand the other films in the series. I prefer PDF format. I'll send an e-mail. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:48, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

   NinjaRobotPirate, don't see an email from you, but I can use the address you used last time if that works ... The Interior (Talk) 05:46, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

   That's frustrating. I sent it a while ago, so it should have arrived. Oh well. Yes, I have the same e-mail address, so you can use that. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:17, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

   Yeah, sorry. It may have been cycled out of my spam folder, not sure what happened there. Anyhoo, request sent using the one from your last request. The Interior (Talk) 07:27, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

5. Cavarrone (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email). I created over three thousand articles about Italian topics, and expanded hundreds as well (a partial overview of my work is at User:Cavarrone/Articles). I would be interested in two books, possibly in PDF, Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980 by Danny Shipka (Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4888-3, Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8609-0) and Italian Horror Film Directors by Louis Paul (Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6113-4, Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8749-3). Cavarrone 05:59, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

   Cavarrone, Approved, will get your request in to McFarland asap. The Interior (Talk) 05:45, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

6. timmyshin (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I've created many articles on older Chinese films, and this reference book will be highly valuable to my edits: Marion, Donald J. (1997). The Chinese Filmography: The 2444 Feature Films Produced by Studios in the People's Republic of China from 1949 through 1995. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0305-5.  Timmyshin (talk) 04:52, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
7. Hnaluru (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have been an active user and contributor of Wikipedia for more than a decade and as I started inching towards more content development, I began to look at sources, McFarland offers to provide such a platform and I am keen to be a part of this library. My interests include India, Archaeology, History, Science and Politics. Thanks for considering. Hnaluru (talk) 18:12, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
8. Iazyges (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have roughly 2000 edits, been around for almost two years, and am requesting access for electronic access to the history and military history books, I mainly edit on roman history, both military and regular.
9. Coin945 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) My specialty is educational video games, and I think this resource would be invaluable--Coin945 (talk) 12:46, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
10. Teblick (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I began editing in January 2014. I have created more than 100 articles and added significantly to many more, with much of the material coming from books that I was fortunate to receive from McFarland in the past two years. Most of the articles that I have created contain one or more citations from McFarland books, and I have used those books in editing existing articles, as well. I am requesting the following titles (PDF, please) to provide additional information to help with my ongoing research and writing for Wikipedia: 1) Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed. (2011) Vincent Terrace; 2) The Encyclopedia of Women in Radio, 1920–1960 (2012) Leora M. Sies and Luther F. Sies; 3) Radio Crime Fighters (2010) Jim Cox; 4) Music Radio (2011) Jim Cox; 5) Television Westerns (1998) Richard West. I have listed the titles in decreasing order of preference, in case all are not available. I appreciate your help. Eddie Blick (talk) 21:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)