Columbia University Libraries and the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation are pleased to provide an update on new web archives, curated by Libraries staff over the past several years:

• The Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) Protest Movements Web Archive documents the widespread social justice movements and anti-CAA organizations to support them, as well as the allied movements mobilizing women and students with them, including groups of freedom fighters, oppressed castes, transgender people, and other marginalized communities.
• The Greater China Archival Resources Web Archive collects websites belonging to established, physical archives and learned archival societies located in the Greater China region and archival projects from or about the Greater China region.

• The Collective Architecture and Design Response to COVID-19 Web Archive documents how the architecture and design communities have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The Belarusian Politics and Society Web Archive exists to preserve material related to the 2020 presidential election campaign in Belarus and the events that followed.
• The Student and Youth Environmental Activism Web Archive documents youth and student engagement in climate change and environmental issues from around the globe beginning in 2019.

• The South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive documents and preserves the work of activists, grassroots organizations, and social justice movements committed to promoting the visibility and experiences of LGBTQAI+ people and women in South Asia and its diasporas.
• The Global Social Responses to COVID-19 Web Archive documents regional, social responses to the pandemic, which are critical in understanding the scope of the pandemic’s humanitarian, socioeconomic, and cultural impact.
• The Cuban 27N Movement Web Archive preserves and provides access to a broad range of websites related to the Cuban 27N Movement initiated in November 2020 by protesters in Havana, Cuba, demanding freedom of expression and other civil rights.

  

• The Video Appeals to the President of Russia Web Archive preserves online videos created as direct appeals to Vladimir Putin by various groups and individuals in the Russian Federation and a number of other countries.
• The Uyghur Human Rights Web Archive preserves web resources documenting the displacement and repression of Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Tatars, and Kyrgyz peoples in East Turkestan/Xinjiang.
• The Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration Web Archive preserves websites associated with card decks that are used in design fields as a game-based methodology for ideation and stakeholder participatory collaboration.
• The LGBTQ+ Communities of the Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe Web Archive archives a broad range of websites maintained by and for the benefit of LGBTQ+ communities in the independent countries of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Web archives preserve vulnerable information that may disappear from the live web and capture the ways in which selected websites have evolved over time. The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation’s Web Collecting Program is a collaborative collection development effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available, but at-risk, web content in order to support research. Learn more about the program and explore the collections here.