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. 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, Sarah G. Wenzel, and Jonah Magar.
