Organization Type: National Library
Country: United States
www.nlm.nih.gov
National Library of Medicine
Start Date: 2002
Archive interface language(s): English
Access methods: URL Search, Alphabetic Browsing, Subject Browsing, Topical Collections
Harvesting methods: Selective, Event, Thematic
Web archiving at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is guided by the Library’s Collection Development Guidelines, with a focus on events, themes, and topics aligned with NLM’s collecting priorities. These include Global Health Events, HIV/AIDS, the Opioid Epidemic, Health Policy, NLM institutional web content, and more. Priority is given to content that is at risk of being lost, of significant interest to current and future researchers, and unlikely to be preserved elsewhere.
The Library’s Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group—comprising a multidisciplinary team of librarians and archivists—leads NLM web archiving efforts. NLM primarily uses Archive-It for web content collection and has partnered with the service since 2009. Since then, the Library has archived more than 15 terabytes of data.
NLM’s web archive collections can be accessed at https://archive-it.org/organizations/350.
Visit our program page and FAQs for additional information, and read more about NLM web archiving on our Library blog Circulating Now.