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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: Archive Team: URLs

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An Interview with Helsinki University Press on joining OASPA

February 8, 2024 by Carol Green

Helsinki University Press has recently become a member of OASPA in the small professional publisher category, further enriching the growing community of members. To gain more insight into their recent affiliation with OASPA and to learn more about them, we conducted an interview with Anna-Mari Vesterinen, Managing Editor. Q. Tell us a bit about… Read full article >

OASPA – 2023 in Review

January 31, 2024 by Claire Redhead

It is important, every now and then, for an organisation to take a step back and look at progress. 2023 was a good opportunity for OASPA to pause and take stock. We made time to check in with our members, we reviewed how and why they connect with us, and we invited them to give… Read full article >

OASPA members pass the 1m articles annual output milestone for the first time in a calendar year

January 25, 2024 by Guest Author

Each year, OASPA surveys its members about their publication output. This year, we are delighted to continue to work with Delta Think who have helped us by taking on the analysis, structuring and presentation of the data we collected. This guest blog post from Delta Think by Dan Pollock covers some highlights from our findings. … Read full article >

OASPA’s forthcoming recommendations to increase equity in open access: the story of how we got here, and why

January 18, 2024 by Malavika Legge

Happy 2024 to all in the open access community. With TIME magazine covering increased open access as one of the ways the world got better in 2023 let’s own this as another year of making a positive difference by working together. OASPA has developed a draft of recommended practices to help publishing organisations increase equity… Read full article >