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H. Andersen (2013): A Website Owner's Practice Guide to the Wayback MachineIn PDF, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 251.
See here as well.

S.K. Arora et al. (2016): Using the wayback machine to mine websites in the social sciences: A methodological resource. Open access, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67.

! M. Costa (2021): Full-text and URL search over web archives. PDF file, in: Gomes D., Demidova E., Winters J., Risse T. (eds.) The past web: exploring web archives. Springer, Cham, pp. 71–84.
See here as well.
"... while web search engines enable searching over the most recent web snapshot, web archives enable searching over multiple snapshots from the past. This means that web archives have to deal with a temporal dimension that is the cause of new challenges ..."

M. Dougherty et al. (2010): Researcher engagement with web archives: State of the art. open access, Joint Information Systems Committee Report.
"... In this report, we summarize the state of the art of web archiving in relationship to researchers and research needs ..."

Firefox Browser AddOns:
! Web Archives (by Armin Sebastian).
Web Archives is a Firefox extension that enables you to find archived and cached versions of web pages. Searches can be initiated from the context menu, the browser toolbar, or the address bar in case of a server error. Web Archives is an open source project made possible thanks to a community of awesome supporters.

Link-Assistant.Com:
Top 10 Wayback Machine Alternatives in 2025.

Markethinkers:
! What Does Wayback Machine Do And How to Benefit From It?

! J. Murphy et al. (2007): Take Me Back: Validating the Wayback Machine. Open access, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13: 60–75.
"... now that the Wayback Machine seems validated as a viable research tool, an interesting range of research possibilities arise. Researchers can now have greater confidence in the data generated by the tool and can incorporate such data into their research ..."

NetzwerkRecherche.org (in German):
! Blick in die Vergangenheit: So hilft dir die Wayback Machine bei deiner nächsten Recherche (by Mark Graham, translated by Florian Sturm).

Oxygen ITES, India:
The Benefits of Using Archive Sites for Long-Term Data Preservation (by Shashikanth Heereka,September 25, 2024).

Reddit:
! Why use the Wayback Machine over Archive.today + it's domains?
Wayback Machine vs. Archive.today?

RepScan:
What is Wayback Machine and why should you use it?

Dan Russell, SerachResearch:
A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, etc.
! Excellent research tool -- the Wayback Machine browser extension (March 09, 2018).

TechTarget:
How to use the Wayback Machine for a business advantage (by A. Hettler, 2023).

! The Wayback Machine.
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Note especially:
! Using the Wayback Machine.
Wayback Machine General Information.
! Search – A Basic Guide.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Category:Web archiving initiatives.
Category:Internet Archive projects.
! Wayback Machine.
Internet Archive (in German).