Who is the UK Web Archive for?

All are welcome to use the UK Web Archive ­ and to nominate sites that are not yet in the collections.
The UK Web Archive is designed to appeal to users across a wide spectrum of interest and knowledge: the general reader, the teacher, the journalist, the policy maker, the academic and personal researcher, and many more besides. Those represented by the sites themselves, in all the diversity of the United Kingdom, are also intended to be prime users.
Most users will find archived sites that deal with their particular area of interest or subject, and which may contain information that is no longer given on the equivalent live site. Sometimes the live site will no longer exist: in which case the UK Web Archive is likely to hold the only copy that remains.
Because the Web is of such cultural importance in itself researchers of the history of the Internet will also find the UK Web Archive of great interest. Website owners themselves use the UK Web Archive to locate information misplaced from previous versions of their sites.
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In addition to working to radically increase the amount of content in the UK Web Archive, the British Library, which provides the underpinning infrastructure, is committed to improving the user experience of the Archive. The web site will gradually be developed to bring even better search capabilities and other features of value to the user. The UK Web Archive will also be stored in the British Library's secure digital repository, designed to enable the UK to preserve and make accessible its digital output forever, as well as offering further opportunities of searching across various kinds of archive.