WebCite was an on-demand archive site, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by taking snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger or a scholar cited or quoted from it.
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WebCite allowed for preservation of all types of web content, including HTML web pages, PDF files, style sheets, JavaScript and digital images.
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WebCite was a non-profit consortium supported by publishers and editors, and it could be used by individuals without charge.
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WebCite offered interfaces to scholarly journals and publishers to automate the archiving of cited links.
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WebCite was formerly a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium.
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WebCite "feeds its content" to other digital preservation projects, including the Internet Archive.
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WebCite ran a fund-raising campaign using FundRazr from January 2013 with a target of $22,500, a sum which its operators stated was needed to maintain and modernize the service beyond the end of 2013.
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WebCite did not charge individual users, journal editors and publishers any fee to use their service.
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WebCite earned revenue from publishers who wanted to "have their publications analyzed and cited webreferences archived".
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WebCite maintained the legal position that its archiving activities are allowed by the copyright doctrines of fair use and implied license.
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WebCite argued that caching and archiving web pages was not considered a copyright infringement when the archiver offers the copyright owner an opportunity to "opt-out" of the archive system, thus creating an implied license.
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