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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">We don't have those, but in the Vogue archive after you press tab several times you get an option to create a text only version of the article. Do those databases maybe have that available as
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Scanned image content <a href="https://clarivate.com/accessibility/proquest-platform/">https://clarivate.com/accessibility/proquest-platform/</a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">If your research involves referencing historical records or magazines in their original presentation format, you may encounter documents created from scanned images, where the text is not selectable or accessible
by assistive technologies. Where possible, ProQuest offers an on-demand service that will use OCR (optical character recognition) technology to create a readable version of the text within the scanned image. For more guidance about how to access these records,
including instructions about how to generate this plain text version, please read our support article: <a href="https://support.proquest.com/articledetail?id=kA13r0000003VfICAU" target="_blank"><span style="color:#5E33BF">Generating a text version of scanned
image documents</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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tool, read our support article: <a href="https://support.proquest.com/articledetail?id=kA13r0000003VfNCAU" target="_blank"><span style="color:#5E33BF">Using the Keyboard Accessible Image Viewer on the ProQuest Platform</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 11:18<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Collections) that we believe meet the <a href="https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/regulations/title-ii-2010-regulations/#section-35104-definitions" target="_blank">
definition of archival content</a>, but we’re still building our case. I would LOVE to hear what you’re doing, what your exception process looked like, what argument you made for the archival exception, and for which resources. Anything you can share is greatly
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Electronically yours,<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0066CC">Kris Ann Hudson</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0066CC;background:white">(they/she)</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:white"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Electronic Resources & Collections Assessment Librarian</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><br>
<span style="background:white">Collections & Acquisitions Department<br>
University Libraries</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#212529"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555;background:white">Miller Nichols Library, 308D<br>
</span><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0066CC;background:white"><a href="http://library.umkc.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0066CC">library.umkc.edu</span></a><br>
</span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Phone:
</span><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0066CC">(816) 235-6470</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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