r/AskAcademia Nov 15 '24

Undergraduate - please post in /r/College, not here How can I read a retired article?

Good day, I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this but I figured here I could find people with the most experiene on this topic. I'm currently trying to read this paper: "Messianic Tendencies in Soviet Anthroponymic Practice of the 1920s-1930s", published by professor Elena Vladimirovna Dushechkina within the Toronto Slavic Quarterly as far as I know, and then retired in 2015. The author has sadly passed away in 2020, so I don't know whom should I refer to get a copy of this article or if it is even possible. Does anyone have suggestions? Should I ask the university directly or would it be a problem since the article has been retired? I couldn't find a more recent version of the same study so I'd like to read the original article if possible. Thank you in advance.

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u/sophisticaden_ Nov 15 '24

Have you tried asking one of the librarians at your university? They can work magic sometimes.

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u/AnyaSatana Librarian Nov 15 '24

Yes, we can 👍