Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that preserves websites, books, audio, video, software, and other cultural materials for public access.

Digital library: An organized collection of digital materials with systems for discovery, access, and preservation. The Internet Archive is a large public example of a digital library.
Wayback Machine: A web service that lets users view archived captures of websites from different dates. It is the Archive’s best-known interface for browsing saved web pages.
Digital humanities: Research and teaching that use computational methods to study humanities subjects and cultural materials. Archived texts and media provide sources for computational cultural research.
Google Books: A Google service for searching the text of books and accessing digitized book content. It offers large-scale book digitization through a commercial platform rather than a nonprofit library.
Web archiving: The capture and preservation of websites and other material published on the web. It underlies the Archive’s collection of saved websites.
Heritrix: An open-source web crawler designed for large-scale, archival web harvesting. Heritrix captures websites for the Archive’s web collections.
Internet research: The systematic study of online activity, content, and infrastructure using research methods. Archived websites let researchers examine past versions of the web.
HathiTrust: A partnership of academic and research libraries that preserves and provides access to digitized books. It is another major digital-library model, rooted in research-library institutions.
Digital preservation: The managed storage and maintenance of digital information so it remains accessible over time. Preservation is central to keeping the Archive’s collections usable.
Book scanning: The conversion of printed books into digital images, often accompanied by searchable text. Scanning turns physical books into digital collection items.

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