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Use Boolean search terms - AND, NOT, OR etc. e.g. apple NOT fruit.
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Use quote marks when looking for a specific phrase e.g. “London Olympics”.
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Note that dates refer to when items were collected and not when they were made available on the Internet.
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The UKWA contains very little social media, and no Facebook at all, due to technical difficulties with its collection.
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This is a collection of UK websites. The Archive contains many more .uk websites than other top level domains such as .com
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About 15,000 websites, collected from 2004 to the present, are publicly available online as we have the website owner's consent to make them available in this way.
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The majority of the millions of websites in the UKWA, collected from 2013 onwards have been acquired under the Non-Print Legal Deposit Act, 2003. Without an additional licence from the website owner, these websites can only be viewed in the reading rooms of Legal Deposit Libraries.
