Sourcery
Sourcery, developed by the University of Connecticut, provides a solution for researchers who cannot visit archival repositories in-person. With the Sourcery app installed on a phone or laptop, a researcher seeking a document can type the required document’s location information into the Sourcery application and other researchers in place near those documents can retrieve them. The app finds Sourcery-registered researchers currently working in and around the repository where the document sits. One of these remote researchers (the “Sourcerer”) claims the job, calls the document from the archives, takes a picture of it from within the Sourcery application, and sends it directly to the Sourcery requesting researcher. The requesting researcher pays a fee based on the scope of the request, the number of local Sourcerers available at the time, the urgency, and other variables.