This is probably how some contributors do good work. They subscribe to a commercial information service, whether it be databases or whole electronic archives of past issues. And, then they crib from it, and they know how to defend results, because they saw details in the experiment, transcript, poll. Maybe they can even see raw data. Local libraries do much the same thing that is talked about in this thread. For instance, if I want a phone number, there still is not a central directory on the internet that I know of, and my library subscribes to a yearly CD database for North America. Back in the eighties, my library subscribed to paper phone directories for the same region. It took about five square metres.
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