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Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

Archive-It Partner Since: Jul, 2013

Organization Type: Colleges & Universities

Organization URL: https://ivpluslibraries.org   

Description:

The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) Web Collecting Program is a collaborative collection development effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available, but at-risk, web content in order to support research at participating Libraries and beyond. Participating Libraries are: Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University. Read our Statement on Potentially Harmful Content.

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Belarusian Politics and Society

Archived since: Sep, 2020

Description:

The Belarusian Politics and Society Web Archive exists to preserve websites, social media, and other digital content related to the 2020 presidential election campaign in Belarus and the events that followed. Its primary focus is on output of the opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko and of unofficial, pro-Lukashenko actors, including: non-governmental organizations, local news outlets, trade unions, cultural organizations, and individual cultural figures and activists. These materials are endangered either by the Belarusian regime itself taking action to suppress them, or by individuals responding to pressure from the regime to self-censor and remove materials from the Internet. This Archive will provide stable and continuing availability of these ephemeral resources for current and future researchers. The Belarusian Politics and Society Web Archive is curated by librarians at Harvard and Stanford Universities, the University of Chicago, and the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Nominate sites for inclusion in the Archive using this form.

Subject:   Politics & Elections Society & Culture Protest movements Contested elections Lukashenko, Aleksandr, 1954-

Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018)

Archived since: Dec, 2018

Description:

The Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive is a collection built by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation and member libraries of the Latin America Libraries of the Northeast Group. Talía Guzman-González (Library of Congress), Sócrates Silva (Columbia / Cornell University Libraries) and Jill Baron (Dartmouth Library) are the project leads, with significant contributions from members of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. The Archive comprises Brazilian government websites in the areas of human rights, the environment, LGBTQ issues, and culture, for the period following the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil on October 28, 2018, up to his inauguration on January 1, 2019. The collection targets web content considered to be vulnerable due to the anticipated consolidation or elimination in the aforementioned areas, and represents a snapshot of government content before Bolsonaro took office, with the aim of preserving these important, but potentially ephemeral, documents for researchers and scholars.

Subject:   Government Politics & Elections Society & Culture Presidents -- Brazil -- Transition periods Human rights Government agencies Bolsonaro, Jair, 1955-

Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability Web Archive (CAUSEWAY)

Archived since: Jun, 2014

Description:

The Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability Web Archive (CAUSEWAY) is a joint initiative by the art and architecture librarians at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale universities, and the universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. This project aims to preserve websites devoted to the related topics of architecture, urban fabric, community development activism, public space and sustainability in order to guarantee the continuing availability of these important but potentially ephemeral documents for researchers and scholars.

Subject:   Community development Historic preservation Natural areas Public spaces Housing

Collective Architecture and Design Response to Covid-19

Archived since: Aug, 2020

Description:

Save The Collective Architecture and Design Response to Covid-19 Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Harvard and Yale Universities, and the University of Pennsylvania, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Curated by Ann Whiteside (Harvard), Sara Rogers (Harvard), Patricia Guardiola (Penn), Kathy Winsor Bohlman (Yale), and Jessica Quagliaroli (Yale), the Archive documents how the architecture and design communities have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. For the purposes of the collection, the design and architecture communities can be defined as practitioners and organizations who play a role in shaping public space and the built environment, including: architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and artists. Materials included will come from a wide variety of sites, such as national organization websites, professional and personal blogs, interviews, design firms, and cultural heritage institutions.

Subject:   Science & Health Society & Culture Design Architecture Covid-19 (Disease)

Contemporary Composers

Archived since: Oct, 2013

Description:

The Contemporary Composers Web Archive (CCWA) is a collection developed by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation's Music Librarians (a collaborative working group including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Yale Universities, and the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania). The CCWA is an extension of an existing Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Music Librarians collaborative collection development agreement identifying approximately 1,500 globally based contemporary composers of sufficient importance to have their published printed works collected at a comprehensive level by at least one participating institution. The agreement defines “contemporary” composers as: 20th-century composers still active in 1975; works by those composers deceased before 1975 but published for the first time in significant new editions after 1975 (optional among members); and composers active after 1975. The Archive aims to preserve for researchers the personal / official websites belonging to these notable contemporary composers in order to assure the continuing availability of the important, and potentially ephemeral content they contain, such as: biography, bibliography, discography, recordings, writings, lists / notices of performances, audio and video performances, photos, press notices, and more. For additional information about Ivy Plus Libraries or the Contemporary Composers Web Archive, please contact: ccwa@library.columbia.edu.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Society & Culture Composers

Cuban 27N Movement

Archived since: Mar, 2021

Description:

The Cuban 27N Movement Web Archive preserves and provides access to a broad range of websites related to the Cuban 27N Movement initiated in November 2020 by protesters in Havana, Cuba, demanding freedom of expression and other civil rights. Built by Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez (Princeton University), Jill Baron (Dartmouth College), Holly Ackerman (Duke University), and Lizabel Mónica (Princeton University) — under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation — the Archive focuses on websites produced by activists and supporters within and outside of Cuba, non-governmental organizations, Cuban alternative presses, and online periodicals on politics, art, and culture in order to guarantee that these potentially ephemeral websites are preserved and remain accessible to researchers and scholars for years to come.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Civil rights Protest movements Freedom of expression

Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration

Archived since: Jun, 2022

Description:

The Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration Web Archive is curated by librarians at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Card decks are used in design fields as a game-based methodology for ideation and stakeholder participatory collaboration. The purposes of decks vary; some are used for brainstorming new products and services while others are scenario-based, prompting designers to consider how their products or services may be incorporated into different communities. They function both as a tool for design speculation and as a set of illustrations that visualize design thinking. This archive preserves websites associated with these decks; as design thinking becomes popular in many disciplines, from business to science, the potential user groups for these tools greatly expands outside traditional design fields. Curators of the archive are: Shannon Robinson (University of Pennsylvania) and Gabriella Karl-Johnson (Princeton University).

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Computers & Technology Society & Culture

Digital Gaming Communities

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

The Digital Gaming Communities Web Archive preserves content, across varying web formats, generated by and related to digital games, in order to foster research within the discipline. Themes collected include critical gaming, game ethics, accessibility in gaming and game design, and user reviews and playthroughs. Content can be created by an individual, group of individuals, organizations, or corporations. While other sites are collecting digital games and criticism of digital games, no other archive is collecting the responses of the gamers themselves. This Archive will give current and future researchers a means of studying digital games and gamers in distinct and different ways than secondary sources represent. This collection attempts to collect many facets of gaming culture, which may include views expressed by people associated with extremist groups and may include hate speech in some cases. Although some users may find this content offensive or dangerous, its primary purpose is for research and teaching. The Archive is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and Duke, Michigan State, and Wilfrid Laurier Universities, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Curators of the Archive are: Laura R. Braunstein, Michelle Goodridge, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Matthew Murray, André G. Wenzel, and Jonah Magar.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Computers & Technology Society & Culture Video games Video gamers Video game designers Video games — moral and ethical aspects

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union

Archived since: Nov, 2018

Description:

The Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and New York Universities, and the New York Public Library, in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation), with Brown University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, Dartmouth University, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Pennsylvania. The collection is curated by Thomas Keenan (Princeton), Robert Davis (Columbia), Anna Arays (Yale), Erik Zitser (Duke), Alla Roylance (New York University), and Bogdan Horbal (New York Public Library). The Archive represents an effort to preserve research-valuable web content from Eastern Europe and the territories of the Former Soviet Union by a group of research librarians responsible for that part of the world. The countries of the region in recent years have been publishing a wide variety of websites likely to be of value to contemporary and future humanities, social science, and history projects, and this Archive has been established as an attempt to identify, capture, and preserve this material. The thematic and generic scope of the archive is deliberately broad, and includes websites published by political parties, non-governmental organizations and activist groups, artists and cultural collectives, and historians, philosophers, and other intellectuals. Recommend a website for inclusion.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Society & Culture Government

Extreme Right Movements in Europe

Archived since: Jan, 2019

Description:

The Extreme Right Movements in Europe Web Archive is a collection built by members of the Ivies Plus Western European Studies Affinity Group, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. By ‘extreme right’ the Group understands a large ideological spectrum of radical right thinking, extending from anti-globalization and right-wing populism, to white nationalism, neo-fascism, and extremism. Extreme right movements and ideology share a number of features, which typically include hostility to globalization, fervent criticism of immigration, and have political, social, and religious aspects, and exist outside of and are more radical than mainstream conservatism. The Archive collects a wide array of web content, and aims to preserve this content for scholars, teachers, and future researchers in the humanities and social sciences as documentation of the rise of extreme right movements in Europe in the early twenty-first century. Most of the sites in this archive were added to the seed list in 2018 and it has not been significantly expanded since then. Much right-wing activity on the Internet has migrated from stable websites to social media platforms such as 8kun, Twitter, Telegram chats or Facebook--services that a web archive is not able for technical or legal reasons to capture comprehensively. This archive thus represents a snapshot in time, when the energy in European right-wing activity was rooted in anti-immigration, Islamophobia, long-standing issues exacerbated by the 2015 migration crisis. We have not systematically added any new sites reflecting the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine skepticism, QAnon, or the aftermath of the US 2020 election. The Archive is still actively crawling the sites listed. Although some users may find this content offensive or dangerous, its primary purpose is for research and teaching. Due to the nature of this material, access to the Archive is restricted to on-campus use within the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. If you have questions about this collection, please contact erme@library.columbia.edu.

Subject:   Politics & Elections Society & Culture Nationalism Nationalist movements Neo-Nazism Fascism Radicalism Right-wing extremists Populism Internet — Political aspects Regionalism Emigration and immigration

Feminist and Queer Activist Movements in Transnational China and the Asian Diaspora

Archived since: May, 2019

Description:

In the early 2010s, young Chinese activists started organizing across China on issues related to women’s rights and LGBTQ rights. Known as the young feminist activists (青年女权行动派), they utilized creative tactics and media campaigns. However, their activism was faced by subsequent repression: in 2015, the state arrested five young feminists, who became known as the “Feminist Five” (女权五姐妹). In 2018, the #MeToo movement started as individual survivors posted their stories onto the Chinese Internet. As a result of state repression, surveillance, and censorship, many young feminist and queer activists now live outside of mainland China but continue their activism in the diaspora. They continue to advocate for women’s and LGBTQ rights in both China and in their host countries. These groups are also connected to and have synergy with existing local movements and organizations. Originally created as the “#MeToo and the Women's Rights Movement in China” web archive in 2019, the Archive is curated by Chengzhi Wang (Chinese Studies Librarian at Columbia), Xiao-He Ma (Librarian for the Chinese Collection at Harvard), Sara Howard (Librarian for Gender & Sexuality Studies and Student Engagement at Princeton) and Joshua Seufert (Chinese Studies Librarian at Princeton) in collaboration with student researchers including Kerrie Liang (Princeton), in partnership as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. The Archive aims to systematically capture and preserve web contents related to the feminist/women’s rights/#MeToo and LGBTQ movements in transnational Chinese networks both inside and outside of China, so that scholars and students will continuously be able to access these important, and potentially ephemeral, materials.

Subject:   Society & Culture Arts & Humanities Sexual minorities Feminism Women's rights

Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks

Archived since: Jul, 2019

Description:

The Geologic Field Trip Guidebook Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, and Princeton University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. The collection is curated by Amanda Bielskas (Columbia), Brittany Wofford (Duke), Jane Quigley (Dartmouth), and Emily Wild (Princeton). The project aims to preserve web-based geoscience field trip guidebooks — which document local geologic information and are often ephemeral, and only available for a short time — found in the Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database for researchers and scholars within the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation and beyond. To nominate a Guidebook for inclusion in this collection, please fill out this form.

Subject:   Science & Health Geology

Global Social Responses to Covid-19

Archived since: Apr, 2020

Description:

The Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians throughout the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation in partnership with librarians at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Hawaii, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, and the University of Virginia. Created in March 2020, at the onset of the pandemic, the Archive documents regional, social responses to the pandemic, which are critical in understanding the scope of the pandemic’s humanitarian, socioeconomic, and cultural impact. With an emphasis on websites produced by underrepresented ethnicities and stateless groups, the Archive covers (but is not limited to): sites published by non-governmental organizations that focus on public health, humanitarian relief, and education; sites published by established and amateur artists in any realm of cultural production; sites published by local news sources; sites published by civil society across and representatives; and relevant blogs and social media pages. For more information about the Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive, see: https://libguides.princeton.edu/covid-ivy.

Subject:   Science & Health Society & Culture Covid-19 (Disease) Humanitarianism Public health Non-governmental organizations COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-

Global Webcomics

Archived since: Mar, 2018

Description:

The Global Webcomics Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation) with Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The collection is curated by Karen Green (Columbia) and André G. Wenzel (Chicago). The Global Webcomics Web Archive aims to preserve selected webcomics and creator websites from all over the world in order to assure the continuing availability of these important, and potentially ephemeral, documents for use by researchers and scholars. This initiative intends to preserve webcomics and websites in a wide variety of styles, subjects and themes, in many different languages, created by a diverse group of artists. Recommend a website for consideration.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Society & Culture Webcomics

Greater China Archival Resources

Archived since: Jul, 2020

Description:

One of the hurdles researchers of modern and contemporary China face in their studies is knowing about, and having access to, archival collections held at Chinese archives. The Greater China Archival Resources Web Archive collects websites belonging to established, physical archives and learned archival societies located in the Greater China region, and archival projects from or about the Greater China region. Under the Chinese government, local archives administratively operate under the guidance of the local archival bureaus which themselves are part of local government and responsible for archival management for entire geographical areas. Therefore, the information available on the websites not only covers the collections that are held in each of the physical archives, but also includes policies, news, reports, research articles, and publications that are related to archival management in respective provinces, cities, or countries. Curated by librarians within the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, the Archive aims to provide stable reference to the born-digital content originating from Chinese archives for future access, and attempts to capture the changes of these websites over time, thus documenting political change in China.

Subject:   Universities & Libraries Archival resources Archives

Historical Representation at American House Museums

Archived since: Jan, 2023

Description:

The Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive aims to document the changing interpretation and presentation of the experiences of working people and immigrants, the lives of the enslaved, the contributions of women, LGBT individuals, indigenous peoples, and various ethnic groups at historic house museums in the United States. House museums have been a key component of historic preservation in America since the mid 19th century. Until recently, house museums largely interpreted the lives of great men (and, on rare occasions, women), first and second generation settlers in America, or the work of master architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright or Stanford White. More recently, many house museums have begun changing their focus to include the experiences of underrepresented peoples, including but not limited to the groups mentioned above. Websites have in many cases replaced printed guidebooks in disseminating the social history of these sites. The Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive is curated by librarians, library workers, and professors at Columbia University (Andrew S. Dolkart and Chris Sala) and Johns Hopkins University (Holly Tominack), under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Society & Culture Government Historic sites Historic house museums Historical museums

Ideas of the Anthropocene

Archived since: Mar, 2024

Description:

The Ideas of the Anthropocene Web Archive brings together websites that document concepts and critiques of the “Anthropocene.” From the earth sciences (geology, climate science, etc.) to the environmental arts and humanities, ideas of the Anthropocene have influenced a wide range of scholarly and creative work. This collection seeks to preserve an interdisciplinary sample of sites, including the website of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), the body officially charged with considering the “Anthropocene” as a potential geologic epoch. The focus is on a selection of only those websites where the term “Anthropocene” is formally referenced or invoked, and in which significant emphasis is placed on notions of the Anthropocene. Note: The AWG’s recommendation that an Anthropocene Epoch be added to the geologic timescale was rejected in March 2024, and this decision was upheld by the International Union of Geological Sciences. However, the impact and reach of Anthropocene ideas will continue into the future. This collection is an initiative developed by Amanda Bielskas (Columbia University), James Kessenides (Yale University), Tricia Martone (Dartmouth College), and Nicholas Okrent (University of Pennsylvania), under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

Subject:   Science & Health Arts & Humanities Anthropocene Academic disputations Human ecology Climatic changes Geology, Stratigraphic

Independent Documentary Filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

Archived since: May, 2019

Description:

Chinese independent documentary filmmakers from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have been crucial to bring attention to social and political developments. Their projects are important primary source material for the study of contemporary China, and support institutions’ programs on contemporary China studies. Because of the sensitive nature of their work, their web presences are at risk to disappear at any time. Distribution of Chinese independent documentary films also increasingly faces difficulties. The filmmaker’s websites, blogs and video feeds include information and videos that are otherwise unavailable. Curated by Luo Zhou, Chinese Studies Librarian at Duke, and Joshua Seufert, Chinese Studies Librarian at Princeton, the archive aims to systematically capture and preserve theses ephemeral websites for future access.

Subject:   Society & Culture Arts & Humanities Documentary films

Independent News Sites on Turkish Affairs

Archived since: Oct, 2019

Description:

The Web Archive of Independent News Sites on Turkish Affairs is an initiative developed by librarians within the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation to document and archive online news outlets about Turkey that are not controlled by the state. These sites provide opposing views and news about events unfolding in Turkey on topics that may not be covered by state news outlets, like migration, terrorism, the environment, LGBTQ issues, wars, insurgencies, and on. The websites collected and archived strive to provide a well-rounded perspective of the many different people who live within the borders of the Republic of Turkey.

Subject:   News Web sites Online journalism Citizen journalism

India's Citizenship Amendment Act Protest Movements

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

In the last two years, the Government of India under its ruling Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and promoted other regulations, such as the National Register of Citizenship (NRC), designated to change the rules for who can and who cannot be or become an Indian citizen, and who can immigrate — for the first time making religion a key criterion. These regulations have sparked communal tensions and fears among India's religious and ethnic minorities. The Indian Citizenship Amendment Act Protest Movements Web Archive documents the widespread social justice movements and anti-CAA organizations to support them, as well as the allied movements mobilizing women and students with them, including groups of freedom fighters, oppressed castes, transgender people, and other marginalized communities. The Archive also contains documentation of the government crackdowns and violent suppression of these protests. The Archive is curated by Aruna Magier (New York University0, Jef Pierce (University of Pennsylvania), and Gary Hausman (Columbia University), under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

Subject:   Government Society & Culture Spontaneous Events Protest movements Citizenship

LGBTQ+ Communities of the Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe

Archived since: Aug, 2022

Description:

The LGBTQ+ Communities of the Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and the University of Chicago, in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation) with New York University, the New York Public Library, and Library of University of California Berkeley. The collection archives a broad range of websites maintained by and for the benefit of LGBTQ+ communities in the independent countries of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. These websites document news, events, and issues within these diverse communities, and often provide helpful information about where to seek health, legal, and other assistance in their countries of origin. The collection provides a crucial gathering point for archiving such resources, for the benefit of researchers present and future, and of course for the communities themselves both in the homelands and the diaspora. The curators for this collection are: Anna Arays (Yale), Megan Browndorf (University of Chicago), Robert H. Davis Jr. (Columbia/Cornell), John C. DeSantis (Dartmouth), Bogdan Horbal (NYPL), Thomas Keenan (Princeton), Margarita Nafpaktitis (Stanford), Liladhar Pendse (University of California Berkeley), Anna Rakityanskaya (Harvard), Alla Roylance (NYU), and Erik Zitser (Duke). Nominations to this collection can be made <a href="https://forms.gle/DoEUepnMEGHfRfiy8">here</a>.

Subject:   Society & Culture Society & Culture Gay Community

Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art

Archived since: Jan, 2019

Description:

The Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive is a collection developed by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation's Art & Architecture Librarians, and is an extension of an existing effort focused on collecting publications in all formats that document contemporary art and artists of Latin America and the Caribbean. The agreement defines contemporary art as it refers to 'developments in the visual arts from 1975 to the present,' with material sought 'for the entire career of artists who have been active at any time since 1975.' This archive aims to preserve for researchers the personal and official websites belonging to notable contemporary Latin American and Caribbean artists, artists’ collectives, artists’ groups, galleries, museums, and related entities in order to assure the continuing availability of the important content they contain.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Art, Caribbean Art, Latin American Artists

Literary Authors from Europe and Eurasia

Archived since: May, 2019

Description:

The Literary Authors from Europe and Eurasia Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. The collection is curated by Anna Rakityanskaya (Harvard), Thomas Keenan (Princeton), Robert Davis (Columbia) and Anna Arays (Yale). This project aims to archive web content related to literary authors (of both fiction and non-fiction essays), translators, critics and publishers from Europe and Eurasia with the aim of preserving the history of the contemporary literary process as reflected in the non-print publishing activity of important literary figures and organizations. These websites represent a key addition to the traditional literary archives and by preserving them the Confederation strives to assure the continuing availability of this potentially ephemeral content to researchers and scholars. Recommend a website for inclusion.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Society & Culture Literary journals Literary prizes Literature Authors

Muftiships

Archived since: Jun, 2020

Description:

The Muftiships Web Archive preserces the websites — which may include videos, images, and PDF files — of Muftis and leading jurists from the Islamic world. These websites cover the responses of leading judicial authorities to current events in their respective countries (and in some cases well beyond). In addition to the content, the websites illustrate the manner in which these authorities engage with their public, and the ways in which Islamic law is administered in the digital age. In light of the Coronavirus pandemic in the Middle East and the Islamic world, these websites gained greater visibility. However, these jurists and institutions have been the focus of interest for decades. This is a collaborative project -- under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation -- led by Gayle Fischer (Harvard University), Roberta Dougherty (Yale University), Peter Magierski (Columbia University), Guy Burak (New York University), and Sean Swanick (Duke University). Fatwa and other statements directly related to Covid-19 were supplied by Dr. Adnan Zulfiqar (Rutgers Law) as part of the 'Mapping Covid Fatwas' project, in conjunction with Harvard University's Program in Islamic Law.

Subject:   Fatwas Islamic law Juristic persons (Islamic law)

National Statistical Offices and Central Banks

Archived since: Jul, 2018

Description:

The National Statistics Offices and Central Banks Web Archive is a collection developed by librarians at Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation) with Brown University, Cornell University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, and Yale University. The collection is curated by James Adams (Dartmouth), Marcella Barnhart (Penn), Bobray Bordelon (Princeton), Gwyneth Crowley (Yale), and Joann Donatiello (Princeton). The Archive aims to preserve country statistical office and central bank websites that often contain ephemeral statistical data on topics such as economic conditions, population, education, housing, environmental conditions, transportation, health, social services, vital statistics, and more.

Subject:   Government Statistics Banks and banking

Popline and K4Health

Archived since: Mar, 2019

Description:

Retired on September 1, 2019, the Popline database contained more than 400,000 records and provided students and researchers worldwide with access to journal articles, reports, books, unpublished resources, and full-text documents to users in low- and middle-income countries. Popline was part of the Knowledge for Health Project (K4Health), which ended on September 10. As Popline's sponsoring organization, K4Health served as a neutral knowledge broker for program managers and health care providers working in family planning, reproductive health, and other global health areas and served more than 2.6 million users annually. On August 27, 2019, the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation created archival copies of K4Health, Popline, and Toolkits by K4Health. The copies preserve Popline's abstracts, organized by topic, but lack the database's search functionality. The copies also contain K4Health blog posts, and some downloadable resources and videos.

Subject:   Science & Health Reproductive health Family planning World health

Queer Japan

Archived since: Feb, 2019

Description:

The Queer Japan Web Archiving Project is a joint initiative by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, led by Japanese Studies librarians at Brown, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities and the University of Pennsylvania, with critical research support and input from Dr. Yoshie Yanagihara (Tokyo Denki University), Dr. Tetsuyuki Shida (Waseda University), and Patrick Carland (University of Pennsylvania). The Archive aims to preserve websites created by non-profit Japanese organizations that research, advocate for, and provide services to LGBTQ communities. From May 2020 onward, the project members expanded the scope of the collection to include websites on non-profit organizations providing social services to LGBTQ communities, mental health services, LGBTQ-focused healthcare providers, educational and political advocacy groups, university clubs, and LGBTQ-centered events and demonstrations. By archiving these websites, the Queer Japan Web Archive strives to guarantee that these potentially ephemeral websites are preserved and remain accessible to researchers and scholars. For the updated and complete collection scope, see: https://guides.library.yale.edu/QueerJapan.

Subject:   Society & Culture Gay community Self-help groups Helplines

South Asian Gender and Sexuality

Archived since: Oct, 2020

Description:

Amplifying the voices of those fighting against long histories of patriarchal dominance, the South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive documents and preserves the work of activists, grassroots organizations, and social justice movements committed to promoting the visibility and experiences of LGBTQAI+ people and women in South Asia and its diasporas. With an emphasis on the websites of non-governmental organizations, and on the resources generated by social justice activist groups and individuals, the Archive demonstrates how organizations approach goals of advocacy, education, and capacity building related to issues of gender and sexuality across South Asian regions. An additional focus on resources that showcase the voices of LGBTQAI+ people and women — as revealed in expressions such as oral narratives, writings, performance, and the arts — provides insight into the struggles and resilience of the marginalized, offering content that is largely unavailable or preserved elsewhere and which is likely to disappear. Under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, and curated by Laura Ring (University of Chicago), Jef Pierce (University of Pennsylvania), Aruna Magier (New York University), and Richard Lesage (Harvard University), the Archive foregrounds the lives of South Asian LGBTQAI+ peoples and South Asian women around the world, and chronicles their movements against gender and sexuality based violence and discrimination.

Subject:   Society & Culture Non-governmental organizations Gender identity Gay rights

South Asian Governmental Publications

Archived since: Aug, 2023

Description:

The South Asian Governmental Publications Web Archive aims to collect and preserve open access online formats of government serials from South Asia. From demographic data to legislative proceedings, the serials that form the focus of the Archive include publications on all subjects and from all countries of the region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). The Archive complements robust print collections of government documents acquired through the PL-480 and subsequent South Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program (SACAP). Many of those titles have migrated to electronic formats but the unstable nature of online content (administrative, political, and technological or platform-based instability) leaves users with less control over and confidence in information than more traditional, print repositories. The South Asian Governmental Publications Web Archive preserves primary source material and safeguards its integrity of the historical record, protecting it from correction, redaction, or removal. This project is led by librarians at Princeton University, the University of Chicago, the Library of Congress and the University of Texas Austin, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Titles included in the Archive were identified by the Library of Congress Field Offices in New Delhi and Islamabad and selected by participants in the South Asia Cooperative Collection Development Workshops (SACOOP). Funding for description was granted by the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) and metadata was created by the Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL).

Subject:   Government Periodicals

State Elections

Archived since: Jul, 2018

Description:

The State Elections Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton Universities in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation), with Brown University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. The collection is curated by Kristina Williams (Columbia), Keely Wilczek (Harvard), Jeremy Darrington (Princeton), and Ryan Denniston (Duke). The State Elections Web Archive aims to preserve campaign websites of declared candidates running for state elective offices in order to assure the continuing availability of these important, ephemeral documents for use by researchers and scholars. This initiative initially intends to preserve campaign content and websites for candidates in states with an Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation institution — California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island — with the hope of adding additional states and / or other subnational elective offices as resources permit.

Subject:   Politics & Elections Local elections Political candidates Political campaigns

Student and Youth Environmental Activism

Archived since: Jan, 2020

Description:

The Student and Youth Environmental Activism Web Archive — an initiative developed by Kris Kasianovitz (Stanford University), James Kessenides (Yale University), and Joshua Lupkin (Harvard University), under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation — documents youth and student engagement in climate change and environmental issues from around the globe beginning in 2019. It contains websites and online documents created by individuals, groups, organizations, and coalitions of student and youth-led environmental activism. For the purposes of this collection, students and youth are defined as those who are in primary, secondary, and tertiary schools, or whose age fall into these groups. Development of this collection was inspired by a variety of student-led activities and protests, like Greta Thunberg’s 2018 Skolstrejk för klimatet, the March 14, 2019 school strikes for climate (also known as Fridays for Future), Youth for Climate, the Global Climate Strikes that took place during the Fall of 2019, and the United Nations Youth Climate Summit in 2019. Not included in this collection, but of importance for this topic, are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media outlets, such as WhatsApp and Slack, where the work, images, and messaging of many groups takes place.

Subject:   Climate change Student movements Youth — Political activity Thunberg, Greta, 2003-

U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines

Archived since: Dec, 2019

Description:

Popular women's magazines in the United States have long documented women's thoughts, activities, economic power, sexuality, political interests, social, cultural, and domestic life. The U.S. Women's and Girls' Magazines Web Archive consists of websites of women's media which previously existed as print magazines, but are now published solely on the web. This collection enables the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation to continue to capture and extend collections of these serial publications. The Archive is a collaboration between the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard, Princeton University Library, and Columbia University Library — as part of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation — and is curated by Jennifer Weintraub and Lee Sullivan (Harvard), Sarah Witte (Columbia), and Sara Howard (Princeton).

Subject:   Society & Culture Youths' periodicals Women's periodicals Women's mass media

Uyghur Human Rights

Archived since: Sep, 2021

Description:

The Uyghur Human Rights Web Archive is a collaborative project led by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation to preserve web resources (including full websites, videos, images, PDF files) documenting the displacement and repression of Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Tatars, and Kyrgyz peoples in East Turkestan/Xinjiang. The creators of these websites include but are not limited to: Charitable trusts and associations; Educational institutions; Financial institutions; Government agencies; Individuals; News agencies; Non-governmental organizations; and Political parties. While the focus of the archive is East Turkestan/Xinjiang, the selected resources come from many countries and regions, e.g., North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, and East Asia, and are in a variety of languages.

Subject:   Society & Culture Politics & Elections Human rights Uyghur Kazakhs Kyrgyz Tatars Uzbeks

Vaccination in Modern America: Misinformation vs. Public Health Advocacy

Archived since: Jan, 2020

Description:

The Vaccination in Modern America: Misinformation vs. Public Health Advocacy Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians in the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. The Archive identifies and captures webpages representing the current state of public discourse and contrasting approaches to authority on the topic in the United States, with a focus on sites that are both pro- and anti-vaccination. The purpose of this collection is to capture potentially ephemeral information about vaccination that could be used by health service researchers, information scientists, sociologists, and others to understand the motivations, practices, and outcomes of health information and misinformation. Anti-vaccination sites were those that opposed the established national guidelines for vaccination and vaccination schedules, as well as those that focus on chemical vaccine adjuvants or organic natural living as a replacement for vaccination. Prominent natural living advocates and bloggers who have made anti-vaccination arguments, or who have expressed sympathies to vaccine avoidance, have been included to provide additional context around anti-vaccination information campaigns.

Subject:   Science & Health Vaccines — Government policy Vaccination — Social aspects Vaccination — Public opinion Anti-vaccination movement

Video Appeals to the President of Russia

Archived since: Mar, 2021

Description:

The Video Appeals to the President of Russia Web Archive preserves online videos created as direct appeals to Vladimir Putin by various groups and individuals in the Russian Federation and a number of other countries. The videos contain requests for the president’s direct involvement in resolving local and national social, economic, legal and environmental problems, assessment of Putin’s leadership, advice to him, and birthday wishes. The archive covers a variety of topics, such as politics, housing, legal battles, local administration, medical care, cultural institutions, labor disputes, economic conditions, alcoholism, animal cruelty, etc. The appeals are recorded by people of all ages and all social, ethnic and professional groups. Collectively these videos present a strikingly candid narrative of everyday life in Russia under V.V. Putin. The web archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Harvard University and Princeton University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. View this LibGuide for more information.

Subject:   Government - National Society & Culture Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- Russia (Federation). President Open letters Public relations and politics Public opinion YouTube (Firm) Internet videos--Social aspects

Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran

Archived since: Oct, 2022

Description:

This web archive preserves material on, about, and from the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of Iran, which emerged in the wake of the 2022 police killing of Mahsa Jîna Amini. Her arrest by the morality police, on alleged grounds of non-compliance with the compulsory Hijab Law, ignited a series of protests that began in Kurdistan, spread across all levels of Iranian society, and reached other marginalized regions like Sistan-Baluchistan. This movement garnered international solidarity, with the Iranian diaspora and global activists demanding accountability from the Iranian government. Despite the government's attempts to violently suppress dissent, the movement persists into 2023. This archive curates a collection of videos, photographs, art, music, petitions, statements, and diverse forms of expression that have emerged from this movement, showcasing both government crackdowns and the resilience and determination of the Iranian people in their pursuit of meaningful change. The majority of the web resources were collected between October 2022 and May 2023. The Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Nominate sites for inclusion in the Archive using this form.

Subject:   Society & Culture Spontaneous Events Government Human rights Iran Censorship Protest art Protest movements

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