Your Scottish Archives
Visit www.yourscottisharchives.com
The new Your Scottish Archives portal was launched on Tuesday 10th December 2024, at the SCA Annual Conference in Stirling.
Your Scottish Archives is a unique project to gather and make available worldwide, through a dynamic online portal, catalogue descriptions from archives across Scotland, including local authority, health, business and community archives, and records of under-represented groups. This major new resource is managed by the Scottish Council on Archives (SCA) partnering with Jisc/Archives Hub. It will build capacity amongst archive holders and develop skills, particularly amongst local communities, making an enormous contribution to the wider heritage sector by improving access to Scotland’s documented past.
Your Scottish Archives (YSA) currently display catalogue entries from over sixty Scottish repositories, including local authority, universities, heritage organisations and community groups. It is packed with guidance, links and resources for all users of online archive, both experienced and new.
This is phase one of the site. Phase two in spring 2025 will include improved hierarchical display of records and search functionality. As the site grows, we hope more repositories will contribute catalogues descriptions.
All archives, whether held by a local authority, community group, museum, business or university, are welcome to share their collections, if:
Your collection includes original archival material
You provide public access to your archive
You have or are happy to apply for a (free) archon (archive identity) number
You have or are able to create catalogues or descriptions of your collections
You are based in Scotland
For all comments and questions please email your@scottisharchives.org.uk