In response to the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 virus and related societal shutdown, the Internet Archive (IA) has built what it calls a “National Emergency Library” (NEL). In a nutshell, the IA has taken its existing “Open Library” project and made it far more expansive. For the duration of…

Lumen is an academic research project, based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, that collects and studies requests to remove online content and links thereto. Lumen’s primary goals are to educate the public about and to facilitate research on such requests. Over the last year, the Lumen…