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Open Doors is pleased to announce the completion of 11 archive import projects in 2023, a total of over 10,000 works! We hope that you will find old and new favorites in the collections listed below.

Open Doors has been importing at-risk archives of fanworks since 2012, starting with the Smallville Slash Archive. These latest projects bring our total number of archives imported to 101! The 100th archive imported was the LeBeau Library of the Gambit Guild forum.


A Priest in Korea

Completed: January 2023

Susan Leinbach created fanart and fanfiction in a number of fandoms, including M*A*S*H (as Iolanthe) and Star Trek. Unfortunately, Susan passed away in June 2006. Susan’s next of kin agreed for archivist Quordle to preserve Susan’s M*A*S*H fanfiction, which Susan originally shared using the pseud Iolanthe on her website titled A Priest in Korea.

Find works at the Iolanthe_memorial AO3 account.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the A Priest in Korea import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Susan Leinbach and A Priest in Korea Fanlore pages.


Dragonfayth

Completed: February 2023

Dragonfayth is an archive dedicated to the Yu-Gi-Oh! pairing of Anzu Mazaki/Seto Kaiba.

Find works at Dragonfayth Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the Dragonfayth import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Dragonfayth Fanlore page.


Lord of the Rings Fanfiction

Completed: February 2023

Lord of the Rings Fanfiction was an archive for fic inspired by the Lord of the Rings books and movies. While the archive included sections for crossovers, Lord of the Rings RPF, and slash, the main focus was canon-based non-slash works. Founded in 2004 by Adora, the archive was eventually entrusted to Queen Mab, who worked with Open Doors to move its works to the AO3.

Find works at the Lord of the Rings Fanfiction Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the Lord of the Rings Fanfiction import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Lord of the Rings Fanfiction Fanlore page.


Viggorli Secret Santa

Completed: May 2023

Viggorli Secret Santa, an annual Lord of the Rings RPS fanfiction gift exchange focusing on the Viggo Mortensen/Orlando Bloom relationship, has been running on AO3 since 2020. In an effort to consolidate all the older works (2010-2019) from the LiveJournal and Dreamwidth sites, the moderator wanted to move those works across to AO3 as well.

Find works at Viggorli Secret Santa Exchange Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the Viggorli Secret Santa import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Viggorli XMAS Fanlore page.


Offpanel.net

Completed: September 2023

Offpanel.net was a superhero comics-focused online archive that ran from 1999 to 2016, featuring the works of approximately 15 creators on separate homepages. Its byline is, "Where 4-Color Doodles Do Off-Color Things," though the content includes stories of every rating and category.

Find works at Offpanel.net Collection.

To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Offpanel.net Fanlore page.


Weir/McKay Fanfiction Archive

Completed: September 2023

Weir/McKay Fanfiction Archive is an archive for Stargate Atlantis Rodney McKay/Elizabeth Weir fanfiction. The site launched in January 2006 and remained up until sometime in 2015, when the founder, Purpleyin, could not maintain it anymore and the site went down.

Find works at Weir/McKay Fanfiction Archive Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the Weir/McKay Fanfiction Archive import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Weir/McKay Fanfiction Archive Fanlore page.


Echoes from the West

Completed: October 2023

Echoes from the West was a Saiyuki fanfiction archive. It was closed and imported to the AO3 due to the original provider being no longer able to support the archive.

Find works at the Echoes from the West Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the Echoes from the West import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Echoes from the West Fanlore page.


The ARC

Completed: November 2023

The ARC is an archive for Primeval fanfiction. The site was hosted online from 2008 until 2014, when due to the founder's impossibility to maintain it, it went offline.

Find works at The ARC Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the The ARC import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the The ARC Fanlore page.


What Makes the Desert Beautiful

Completed: November 2023

What Makes the Desert Beautiful (WMTDB) was an archive for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fanfiction focused on the Nick and Greg slash pairing, active from 2004 to 2017.

Find works at What Makes the Desert Beautiful Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the WMTDB import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the WMTDB Fanlore page.


LeBeau Library

Completed: November 2023

The LeBeau Library of the Gambit Guild forum was an X-Men fanfiction archive focusing on the character Remy LeBeau or "Gambit", active between 2006 and 2010.

Find works at LeBeau Library Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the LeBeau Library import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Gambit Guild Fanlore page.


Library of Moria

Completed: December 2023

The Library of Moria was founded in 2002, shortly after the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and was one of the first online archives for The Lord of the Rings! Unlike other Tolkien archives at the time, its focus was movie-based slash fanfiction organized by pairing. However, it quickly grew in scope and popularity. The AO3 collection is open and accepts all Tolkien-based slash, gen, and RPS fanfiction.

Find works at Library of Moria Collection.

For more information about the archive and its move to the AO3, see the Library of Moria import announcement post. To learn the history of the archive or to share some stories of your own, check out the Library of Moria Fanlore page.


We want to give a huge THANK YOU to all of the archivists and volunteers who made these imports possible, as well as all the creators who have transferred or claimed their works! We look forward to importing more archives in 2024.

 

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Elysejský klíč, a Harry Potter fanfiction and fanart archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

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Elysejský klíč is a fanfiction archive created in 2010 and maintained since then by Alice O’Really, author of the fanfiction of the same title. Elysejský klíč is being imported to Archive of Our Own in order to preserve her work in case she is no longer able to do so herself, and also to preserve the work of her fans who wrote tributes to her work and created other fannish content inspired by Elysejský klíč.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with pimpinella, FemmeFragile and belldandy to import Elysejský klíč into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fanart currently on Elysejský klíč will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from Elysejský klíč to the AO3 after December 2023. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on Elysejský klíč?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your Elysejský klíč pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

  1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
  2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
  3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
  4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3.
  5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
  6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account with which you first contacted Elysejský klíč, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the Elysejský klíč mods to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Elysejský klíč on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve Elysejský klíč!

- The Open Doors team and pimpinella, FemmeFragile and belldandy.

 

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on January 22nd. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

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The Common People Warehouse, an archive for Marvel Comics fanfiction of The Common People genre, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). In this post:

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The Common People (TCP) was a genre of Marvel Comics fanfiction created by Kielle and Phil Foster and focusing on the ordinary people of the Marvel universe. In order to preserve and keep TCP stories available for old and new fans, the TCP Warehouse is being transferred to AO3. The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with sevenall to import the TCP Warehouse into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. We will begin importing works from the TCP Warehouse to the AO3 after December. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who had work(s) on The Common People Warehouse?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work. All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. Please contact Open Doors with your TCP Warehouse pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

  1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
  2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
  3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
  4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.
  5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
  6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your TCP Warehouse account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the archive mod to confirm your claims.) Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of The Common People Warehouse on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve The Common People Warehouse!

- The Open Doors team and sevenall

 

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on 26 December. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

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Last year, the OTW Open Doors Committee announced several changes to its Fan Culture Preservation Project, including the creation of the AO3 Fanzine Scan Hosting Project (FSHP). The FSHP is a partnership with fan-run preservation project Zinedom through which fanfiction and fanart originally published in print fanzines is imported to the Archive of Our Own. Fanworks can be imported to AO3 with the consent of either the creators of the works or the publisher of the fanzine in which the fanworks were published.

Since unveiling the project, Open Doors has been hard at work streamlining its workflows for the FSHP and trialing them on zine fanworks. While Open Doors has not yet begun working with any publishers to import entire fanzines, its FSHP volunteers and import assistants have been busy scanning, transcribing, and importing fanworks whose creators had previously given permission to Zinedom to import them to AO3.

Today, Open Doors is pleased to announce a list of collections that it has created to house fanworks imported through the FSHP. A collection has been created for each fanzine from which one or more fanworks have been imported, but these collections do not contain every work from each of these zines, and many so far only include one work each in cases where Open Doors only has permission to import that particular work. For full transparency, Open Doors plans to continue to announce collections as they are created that may or may not grow with additional fanworks as additional permissions are obtained from more creators in the future.

As of September 2023, Open Doors has created the following collections to represent fanzines from which it has imported works:

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Between the Lines, a JAG fanfiction archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

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Originally founded in 2002 by Lora_8664 as a home of JAG fanfiction, it was active for almost a decade before it went silent in 2008. In 2020, ivedonestranger resurrected it as the successor admin and has kept it preserved for future generations.

With the rising costs of hosting and lower traffic, the admin has decided that AO3 would be a better home and give new life to a historic part of the internet.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Ivedonestranger to import Between the Lines into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own.

We will begin importing works from Between the Lines to the AO3 after September. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on Between the Lines?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your Between the Lines pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

  1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
  2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
  3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
  4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3.
  5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
  6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your Between the Lines account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the Between the Lines mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Between the Lines on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve Between the Lines!

- The Open Doors team and Ivedonestranger

 

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on October 8. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

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One of the main tasks of the OTW’s Open Doors project is to import at-risk archives of fanworks into AO3 collections.

As part of that task, Open Doors searches for works already posted to AO3 to avoid importing duplicates. Until now, the archivist account would then invite the found work to the archive’s collection and bookmark the work if the invitation wasn’t accepted.

Following recent changes to the collection invitation process, archivists now have the ability to automatically add a found work to the archive’s collection.

This will only apply to works that were originally hosted on an imported archive, and is limited to the archive collection only. Creators will receive an email notification when a work is added and can remove their works from collections at any time if they wish.

We try to contact creators during each archive import process to ask their preferences. However, if you don't want any of your works to be imported to AO3, please contact the Open Doors committee.

If you have further questions, please visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We look forward to helping preserve more at-risk fanworks!

- The Open Doors team

 

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on 3 September. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this matter after that date, please contact Open Doors.


The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

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Snow Lands, a fanfiction and fan comic archive for The Lion King (1994 animated movie), is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

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To preserve the gems of The Lion King fanfiction in a well-organized popular archive, the Snow Lands fanworks are being imported to the AO3.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Athari to import Snow Lands into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all images currently in Snow Lands will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from Snow Lands to the AO3 after August. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on Snow Lands?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors.

Please contact Open Doors with your Snow Lands pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

  1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
  2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
  3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
  4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3.
  5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
  6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your Snow Lands account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the Snow Lands mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Snow Lands on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve Snow Lands!

- The Open Doors team and Athari

 

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on August 12. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

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Smoochies, a multi-fandom fanfiction and fanart archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

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Smoochies was a site dedicated to bishounen, shounen-ai and yaoi fanworks. It ran from late 1997 to early 2003. During its life, it hosted some amazing works that its moderator, Melanie, would hate to see lost. They need to be preserved and enjoyed by new fans, instead of living on an old submissions cd-r in the back of a drawer.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Melanie to import Smoochies into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fanfiction and fanart currently in Smoochies will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from Smoochies to the AO3 after July. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who had work(s) on Smoochies?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your Smoochies pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

  1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
  2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
  3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
  4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3.
  5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
  6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your Smoochies account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the Smoochies mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Smoochies on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve Smoochies!

- The Open Doors team and Melanie

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on June 22. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

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