Dear Debanjan,
The very first page of web search in Google yields that :
* the Journal of Indian History is published in Madras since the
early decades of the Twentieth Century. (see
http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofindianh014918mbp#page/n1/mode/2up).
Keeping in mind that Vol VII was published in 1928, we can assume that
it began publishing in 1920 or 1921.
* the University of Pune includes it in the list of journals it
subscribes to ( See
http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=journal%20of%20indian%20hi…)
* Not finding it in JSTOR or indeed in Google Book Scholar implies
that it is one of those journals which has not digitised its valuable
IP and offered it online either free or under a paywall.
So what to do?
By using Revision History Search from the History page of Gandhi &
typing in "Journal of Indian History" text (also known as WikiBlame).
Give it time to run and it will find the insertions. Here is the url :
http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php?user_lang=en&lang=en&p…
After 5 minutes it points at two insertions by User:Rjensen who is a
history professor and presumably has both access to the document and
knows what he does. So, the only thing to do is to ensure it is in a
cite template - in this case "cite journal". If it is already in the
format, no issue. If it is not, convert it.
So the crucial question is - does the edit reflect the original text
neutrally and accurately? Since we do not have access and the editor
is a respectable co-worker with us, we may assume good faith and leave
it at that. Should we feel that the edit is far-fetched or that we
need to check it out we may either:
* find it in a library OR
* if its JSTOR, make a request at Resource Request
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resour…)
* Ask the inserting editor for a copy of the paper.
Then we check the reference to see that the edits are accurate and
that there is no copyvio or POV editting.
Hope this satisfies your thirst for knowledge. :)
I'm bumping a copy of this to the WikiProject list as I'm sure others
will face your situation in the future and this may help in giving
them guidance.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
<debastein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Ashwin,
I've finally got access to well some type of internet connection, its not
too dependable but it works, and that https idea worked well also. Ok, so
while cleaning up the references, I found there are a lot of unverifiable
references, mostly protected by jstor. Look at reference no 84. It reads as
follows:
Watson, I. Bruce (1977). "Satyagraha: The Gandhian Synthesis". Journal of
Indian History 55 (1/2): 325–335.
I am totally unable to find any link of the original article, i.e. the
Journal of Indian History. The closest thing that I found was that it was
referenced to a jstor article,
The Principles of Equity and the Sermon on the Mount as Influence in
Gandhi's Truth Force
But that too is locked by jstor to only paid users. What do I do in this
regard??
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Regards,
Debanjan
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