Schauffler Library: Question Everything! Reading the News with a Critical Eye: Preserving Evidence

Documenting Online Evidence

Online information can change or disappear at a moment's notice. Here are a few ways to capture information that's in front of you and/or try to retrieve it once it's vanished.

How to Save a Web Page as a PDF in Google Chrome
From WikiHow.
If a tweet looks too good to be true, grab a screenshot NOW
The Buttry Diary, Steve Buttry, Director of Student Media, LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication
View webpages cached in Google Search Results
One way to find a news story or other site that has "disappeared" from the Internet.
Wayback Machine
From the Internet Archive. View archived versions of websites stretching back through their histories.