| The UK Web Archive is a corpus of websites selected by leading UK institutions for their historical, social and cultural significance in the UK, for the benefit of researchers. Snapshots of each title, known as instances, are taken at suitable intervals. The archive is free to view and has already collected over 4,000 selected websites since it was set up in mid-2005. Websites are either selected by subject specialists within the participating institutions or have been successfully nominated for archiving (see under Contributors). They are selected in accordance with the collection development policies of the contributing organisations and are gathered with permissions from the website content owners. Finding sites Archived sites may be searched alphabetically under their titles, by URL and by a controlled set of subject categories. Additionally themed collections such as Women?s issues, Blogs and the General Election 2008, have been developed to build up topical, in-depth resources.ContributorsFive partners collaborate to build the UK Web Archive:- British Library
- National Library of Wales
- JISC
- Wellcome Library
- National Archives
The archive also contains websites selected by the National Library of Scotland up to the end of 2007. |
