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Other Archives

There are now many web archiving and digital depository initiatives in Australia and overseas. The links below are to archives known to provide access to to their contents to anyone via the Web.

The National Library implemented a new web archive service, the Australian Government Web Archive, in March 2014 as a specialist collection of Commonwealth Government websites.

The now ceased PADI portal provides an historic survey of early web archiving initiatives by national libraries around the world.

The State Library of Tasmania is not a PANDORA partner, but is an important contributor to the wider Australian cooperative archiving effort. It is building its own archives, Our Digital Island : Preserved Tasmanian Web Sites and STORS: Long-term storage of Tasmanian electronic documents.


The Internet Archive aims to archive the entire Web and contains sites dating back to 1996. Australian publications and web sites that have not been archived in PANDORA may be found in the Internet Archive. Free access is available to the site using the Wayback Machine


The UK Web Archive has been collecting UK websites since 2004 and providing open access to the archive contents.


The Library of Congress has been building thematic web archive collections commencing with the Election 2000 collection.


Australian e-print archives

A number of Australian universities have established e-print archives (or research repositories) to ensure ongoing access to research literature


SETIS: Australian Studies Resources creates digital editions of Australian literary and historical texts.


Australian digital theses are searchable online through Trove.