About WAS

The Web Archiving Service (WAS) provides you with the tools to easily capture, analyze and preserve web content. The service was developed by the California Digital Library as part of the Web-at-Risk grant and is currently used by University of California Libraries and grant partner libraries at Stanford University, New York University, University of North Texas and the Minnesota Historical Society.
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Web Archives

Public access to web archives created with WAS is now available at: http://webarchives.cdlib.org.

The WAS Web Archives
Web Archives
All archives offer a site list and key word searching with options to narrow your search.

WAS News

October 2009
The Library of Congress has prepared a brief video to convey the need for web archiving and to describe web archiving efforts there. This is a good introduction to some of the core issues facing web archivists.
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Tools & Training

WEBCASTS:
The Web Archiving Service team offers online training sessions and web conferences for WAS users. Audio/video recordings of some of these sessions are available if you need a reminder, are a new user, or you'd just like to see how the service works:

GUIDES & FORMS:

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For more information

If you're a current user with questions or would like to know more about the service...

washelp@ucop.edu