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"The Archives Hub fulfils a vital and unique function in revealing the incredible wealth of archives held within... institutions, and in providing an interface between these resources and researchers and learners in the HE sector and the wider community." (Hub contributor)

the Hub's a great site and fulfils a very valuable function (local govt contributor, Nov 2021)

"I find the updates really useful as it's a chance to come across information which you may not have considered to be useful."(Hub user)

"Big shout to @archiveshub - last week we had onsite researchers in #Cardiff from Paris and Hong Kong as a direct result of sharing our content descriptions on the Hub. All content exposed to Google. Big shout to the global reach of @archiveshub" (Welsh HE contributor, 2019)

"I've had 3 more people getting in touch via the Archives Hub descriptions you imported for me! They'd never have found us otherwise. I've been spreading the word to other Scottish local authorities. (Scottish local authority archive, Nov 2019)

"Have just had the delight of answering a very specific question thanks to...Archives Hub. The researcher was seeking images of the British embassy in Caldetas, transferred 40km north of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (none survived in Spain) and lo and behold we had one in one of Sir Ralph’s scrapbooks. It never ceases to amaze how our archives are used and how our presence on the Archives Hub is assisting with making them available to researchers worldwide." (Contributor via email, May 2019)

"This is great - getting enquiries about @BrunelSpecColl #archives & #speccolls since listing on @archiveshub Hooray!" [Twitter] (More items were requested by readers from Brunel Special Collections in first 6 weeks of being on the Archives Hub than in whole of 2011/12).

"We’ve been cataloguing our collections on Archives Hub for about two years now, and it has been absolutely brilliant – we’ve been able to get our collections “out there” and get people using them, plus the people at Archives Hub have been very helpful." (University contributor, 2015)

"[I] can only speak very highly of [the Hub team], who are really amongst those at the forefront of breaking down barriers to access for researchers and repositories." (University contributor 2015)

"This is the first time in the archive’s 30 year existence that the collections have been catalogued and made available in this way." (Archivist, Rambert Dance Company Archive)