Online Archives: Wikileaks, Internet Archive, Marxists Internet Archive, Webcite, Talkorigins Archive, The Simpsons Archive, Textfiles.Com

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: WikiLeaks, Internet Archive, Marxists Internet Archive, Europeana, WebCite, TalkOrigins Archive, The Simpsons Archive, Ultimate Guitar Archive, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, Franco-German Institute, Historic American Buildings Survey, Textfiles.com, BT Archives, BBC Motion Gallery, MetroLyrics, Capital Collections, Spunk Library, Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive, Psephos, HighBeam Research, The Memory Hole, E-lis, International Internet Preservation Consortium, Archive site, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, Porn Wikileaks, Live Music Archive, PKP Open Archives Harvester, Heritage Microfilm, NewspaperARCHIVE.com, AIM25, Higher intellect project, Archives Hub, Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials, It Came From Canada Archive, EzineArticles, Lortel Archives, National Technical Reports Library, PADICAT, Project Canterbury, Clyde-built Ship Database. Excerpt: WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch. WikiLeaks describes its founders as a mix of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director. The site was originally launched as a user-editable wiki (hence its name), but has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication model and no longer accepts either user comments or edits. In April 2010, WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were ...