How to add a custom Archive-It search box to your website

Using the HTML code below, you can include a search box on your website that will link searches back to the Archive-It collections hosted on Archive-It.org.  You can provide full text search for all or any specific collections that you choose.

Single collection

To search across a single collection, use the following code:

<form action="http://www.archive-it.org/collections/COLLECTIONID">
<input type="text" name="q"/>
<input type="hidden" name="show" value="ArchivedPages"/>
<input type="submit" name="go" value="Go" />
</form>

Replace COLLECTIONID with the Archive-It collection number partners would like their patrons to search.  

All Collections

To provide access to all of your public collections in a search box, use the following code:

<form action="http://www.archive-it.org/organizations/ORGANIZATIONID">

<input type="text" name="q"/>
<input type="hidden" name="show" value="ArchivedPages"/>
<input type="submit" name="go" value="Go" />
</form>

Replace ORGANIZATIONID with the Archive-It organization number (which can be found by going to the organization page on Archive-It.org) for which you intend to enable the search.

Advanced search options

If you would like the search box on your page to enable some of the capabilities used in "Advanced Search," please use the below information to help you construct the form on your page.  Each of the below elements should be added as part of the form described for a basic search box above.

Ability to filter search by file type (available types: HTML, plain text, PDF, Postscript, Microsoft Word):

<select size="1" >

    <option selected="selected" value="0">All formats</option>
    <option value="text/html">HTML</option>
    <option value="text/plain">Plain text</option>
    <option value="application/pdf">PDF</option>
    <option value="application/postscript">Postscript</option>
    <option value="application/msword">Microsoft Word</option>
</select>

Ability to modify number of results per host site that should be returned:

<select name="hitsPerDupe">
        <option value="1">1 (default)</option>
        <option value="5">5</option>
        <option value="10" selected="selected">10</option>
        <option value="25">25</option>
        <option value="0">Unlimited</option>
  </select>

Ability to search only a specific host:

<input type="text" value="" size="44" name="host">

Custom access portals created by our partners

Follow the links below to browse the landing pages that some of our partners have created in order to enable access to their Archive-It collections. If you would like your institution to be listed, please let us know! 

• Clark Art Institute Library
• Princeton Theological Seminary Web Archive
• Emory Web Archives (Emory University)
• Virginia Memory (Library of Virginia)
• Human Rights Documentation Initiative (University of Texas at Austin)
• Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges (the Tri-College Consoritum)
• Latin American Government Documents Archive (University of Texas at Austin)
• Columbia University Human Rights Web Archive
• National Institute of Health Web Archive
• North Carolina State Government Web Site Archives (North Carolina Office of Archives and History)
• Tennessee State Government Websites   (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• TRAIL: Texas Records and Information Locator (Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
• Web Archives at Indiana University
• Web Archiving @ the University of Melbourne
• University of Minnesota
• Learning and Teaching Scotland Archive Search Page (example of using OpenSearch to display Archive-It search results in your own site)
• Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford)
• Washington and Lee University School of Law
• Autorenhomepages (Author Homepages) (University of Innsbruck)
• Maryland State Government Website Archive (Maryland State Archives)
• Web Archives at Michigan State University
• University of Alberta Archive-It Collections
• Web Archiving Project for the Pacific Islands (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
• University of Texas at San Antonio Web Collections (University of Texas at San Antonio)
• University of Wisconsin Milwaukee