Indiana University’s National Government Statistics Collection
The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries are one of the leading academic research library systems in North America, providing strong collections, quality service and instructional programs, and leadership in the application of information technologies. Indiana University has created an Archive-it collection of National Government Statistical Websites. This comprehensive collection contains web sites of statistical agencies of 150 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Eurasia, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, Russia and Eastern Europe, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. These web sites may include data, reports, statistical yearbooks, press releases, methodological guides, and other information of continuing interest to social scientists and historians. Indiana University has also been using Archive-it to document their own website as well as Indiana state and local government websites since 2005. A portal to all their collections can be found here. Enjoy! -Lori Continue reading
Latin American Government Documents Archive
The Latin American Network Information Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin library has been archiving Latin American government publications and websites since 2005. The center currently archives over 300 websites quarterly and provides access to the collection from their main portal on the LANIC website. LANIC was an early pilot partner of the Archive-It web archiving service (part of Internet Archive) and serves as an important example of the need to preserve at risk born digital content by web archiving. Prior to archiving websites, LANIC collected Latin American Government publications in print or printed out the early websites. Neither practice could be sustained as more and more information for each country is available online only. Now LANIC not only preserves the publications from each country of intrest, but they are able to preserve whole websites from elected officials and government agencies and related organizations, thus expanding their ability to collect and provide access to important Latin American government information. Please enjoy the collection! -Molly Continue reading
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