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Archives West is an online catalog of descriptive information about the archival collections at various institutions in the
western United States The Western United States (also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, the Western territories, and the West) is List of regions of the United States, census regions United States Census Bureau. As American settlement i ...
(Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Alaska, Utah and Washington). It was established in 2005, and is a program offering of the
Orbis Cascade Alliance __NOTOC__ The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a library consortium serving academic libraries in the Northwestern United States. The consortium was formed through the 2003 merger of two previous consortia, Orbis and Cascade, which consisted of librarie ...
. From 2005 to 2015, the site was known as Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA); the name changed as part of a substantial redesign to better describe the site's content and scope. It was funded by the
National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...
in two phases between 2002 and 2007, and by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Since 2007, it has been supported by the contributing institutions. It uses
Encoded Archival Description Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is a standard for encoding descriptive information regarding archival records.Pitti, D (2012). "Encoded Archival Description (EAD)". In Bates, Marcia J., (ed.) ''Understanding Information Retrieval Systems: Manage ...
(EAD).


Contributing institutions

*Boise State University *Central Washington University *Central Oregon Community College *Confederated Tribes of the Siletz *Eastern Oregon University *Eastern Washington University *George Fox University *Lane Community College *Lewis & Clark College *Linfield College *Montana Historical Society *Montana State University *Oregon Health & Science University *Oregon Historical Society *Oregon Institute of Technology *Oregon State University *Pacific Lutheran University *Pacific University *Portland State University *Salt Lake County Archives *Seattle Municipal Archives *Seattle Pacific University *Seattle Museum of History & Industry *Seattle University *Tacoma Public Library *The Evergreen State College *University of Alaska Fairbanks *University of Idaho *University of Montana *University of Oregon *University of Puget Sound *University of Utah *University of Washington *Utah State University *Washington State University *Western Oregon University *Western Washington University *Whitman College *Whitworth University *Willamette University


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External links


Archives West
(official website)
Orbis Cascade Alliance
(official website) Internet properties established in 2005 2005 establishments in the United States Online archives of the United States {{library-stub