The Archive Project

The Archive Project aims to be a clean, centralized, and durable archive of academic resources for college students—gathered from scattered sources and reorganized for easier access, reading, and studying.

The Archive Project is a no-nonsense, community-managed platform that provides free and open courses and resources. The project aims to be a clean, centralized, and durable archive of academic resources for college students gathered from scattered sources by students and reorganized for easier access, reading, and studying.

The project was started for digitalising scattered resources such as PDFs that are unorganized, mixed and duplicated, presentations, documents, YouTube videos and playlists, figures and question papers. The original aim was to enable full-text search on all the documents, for finding portions and related notes and questions easily. And more ideas were eventually built on to it.

The focus is not just on storing documents, but on making them usable. Instead of flipping through a 60-page PDF or zooming into a blurry image, students can read portions in rich text, view as slides, bookmark sections, and generate flashcards or quizzes based on the material itself.

This is not a social platform. There are no accounts, comments, feeds, or followers. It’s not a product, either—there are no ads, no analytics, and no "engagement features". This project does not care whether you use it or not.

It is not trying to replace classes or teachers. It's a complement to the messy but valuable ecosystem of shared files that already exists—just with a better way to navigate and read them.