Archive-It Partner 730: Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

Collection: Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Web Archive

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), 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.