present participle of archive

Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving. / Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.

(uncountable) The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this.

Having been placed into an archive.

The art or practice of maintaining an archive.

A place or collection where old records and documents are kept.

plural of archival science

The theory and study of the safe storage, cataloguing and retrieval of documents and items.

The depositing of a free copy of an electronic document online by its author, so as to provide open access to it.

plural of national archive