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About the South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives

The Scope of the South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives

Use of the South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives

About The South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives

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The South Carolina Department of Archives and History operates with legislative mandates to preserve state government information and make it accessible to the citizens of South Carolina.

The South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives is composed of web sites created by the state agencies of South Carolina’s government. The web sites were collected using an automated web crawler operated by the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1996 with the purpose of offering permanent access to collections that exist in digital format. In fall of 2005, The Internet Archive began pilot testing their new subscription service, Archive-It, which allows institutions to build, manage and search their own unique web archives.  The South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives allows you to view South Carolina state agency web sites from past dates, providing free and open access to the information long after the sites have changed on the live web.

We have created four distinct collections for the web archives of South Carolina. 

The four collections are:

  • Original South Carolina Web Archive
  • South Carolina State Government Cabinet Agencies and Misc Sites
  • South Carolina State Government Agencies (A-L)
  • South Carolina State Government Agencies (M-Z)

You can view the collections by clicking here.

Scope of The South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives

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The South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives contains a number of digital assets including but not limited to: minutes taken at the meetings of Boards and Commissions; photographs and video of significant events in the state’s history; state-wide statistics; governmental policies; and other significant and related records.

Some of the topics frequently represented in this collection include the delivery of public health services, the protection of the natural environment, the activities of both the Governor’s and the Lieutenant Governor’s offices, the activities of regulatory agencies, the state’s travel and tourism industry, filmmaking, the public education system, welfare and public works programs. Moreover, when seen as a whole the South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives documents the state’s informational and educational priorities, in terms of developing the web presence of South Carolina’s government.

All web sites in the South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives are captured at least on an annual basis. Most state agency web sites are captured quarterly or more frequently.

Use of The South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives

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The materials included in The South Carolina State Government Web Site Archives are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Whenever materials from our collection are used in a publication or other product, we request that the copy carry a credit line stating "Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History."