WashU in the News COVID-19 Websites Collection
To view the WashU in the News COVID-19 Collection in Archive-It visit https://archive-it.org/collections/13766.
This collection consists of websites harvested with Archive-It from March 30, 2020 through December 31, 2022. The majority of websites represent news articles selected from the WashU in the News daily email service provided by University Marketing and Communications. All articles chosen for the archive concern COVID-19 and Washington University in St. Louis in one or more of the following ways: the pandemic’s impact on WashU students, faculty, staff, or institution; WashU’s contribution to COVID-19 research; written by a WashU-affiliated person; contains an interview or significant number of quotes by a WashU-affiliated person.
Dates
- Creation: 2020-2022
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Conditions Governing Use
Users of the collection must read and agree to abide by the rules and procedures set forth in the Materials Use Policies.
Providing access to materials does not constitute permission to publish or otherwise authorize use. All publication not covered by fair use or other exceptions is restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder, which may or may not be Washington University.
If you wish to publish or license Special Collections materials, please contact Special Collections to inquire about copyright status at (314) 935-5495 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu. (Publish means quotation in whole or in part in seminar or term papers, theses or dissertations, journal articles, monographs, books, digital forms, photographs, images, dramatic presentations, transcriptions, or any other form prepared for a limited or general public.)
Extent
1,339 websites (1,339 archived URLs, 55 GB, 795,000 documents)
Historical Note
To view the WashU in the News COVID-19 Collection in Archive-It visit https://archive-it.org/collections/13766.
University Archives began harvesting COVID-19 websites with Archive-It beginning in March 2020, and in December 2022, chose to end the collecting initiative because of the dwindling number of relevant articles. The majority of the collection represents general interest, freely accessible news web pages (local, national, and international) featuring articles, interviews, and quotes from WashU faculty, students, and staff. Additionally, this collection has been added to the COVID-19 Web Archive [https://covid19.archive-it.org/], which is a shared access portal built and maintained by the Internet Archive. This archive gathers together more than 154 individual web archive collections created by more than 120 libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations.
Source of Acquisition
In March 2020, University Archives began reviewing the daily email sent by University Marketing and Communications for references to articles with COVID-19 content. The articles were captured with Archive-It and reviewed for quality assurance.
Articles weeded from the archive include those with a limited amount of WashU-related content, with restricted access (paywall), or with media not suited for capture by a web crawler.
Accession number WUA2022-011
Accession number WUA-2023-007
Accruals
Accrual was added to the collection.
Processing Information
Compiled by Robert Manley, Sonya Rooney, and Sarah Weeks in February 2023.
- Title
- WashU in the News COVID-19 Collection
- Author
- Created by Sonya Rooney, Robert Manley, and Sarah Weeks. Imported into ArchivesSpace by Sarah Schnuriger in February 2023.
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
Collecting Area Details
Part of the University Archives Collecting Area
Sonya Rooney
Olin Library, 1 Brookings Drive
MSC 1061-141-B
St. Louis MO 63130 US
(314) 935-5495
spec@wumail.wustl.edu