As the COVID-19 pandemic caused public institutions, including libraries, to shut down, the Internet Archive (IA) website jumped into the breach. On March 24, 2020, it launched the National Emergency ...

“Information wants to be free” – but at what cost? The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital library, aiming to provide “universal access to all knowledge”. It started with a ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan their own book collections. A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan ...

The dispute started in the early days of the pandemic when the organization expanded access to a free online collection of books. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco When libraries across the ...

The FBI on Friday seized the internet domains of the digital database Z-Library, which lets users illegally download pirated books and academic papers. (For insights on emerging themes at the ...

It's hoped that a successful appeal will allow Internet Archive to restore its full listing and continue lending the books. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...

The internet has already had a major impact on how people find and access information, and now the rising popularity of e-books is helping transform Americans’ reading habits. In this changing ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For students attending a university in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the experience was vastly different ...