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title: "Archive guide"
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# Archive guide

> How to read, search and cite the proud archive, for people and for software agents.

## Reading

- [All articles](/en/articles/) and [all issues](/en/magazines/).
- Each article has the reading text, the scanned original pages and links to stories from the same issue.
- [Authors](/en/authors/) lists everyone with a printed credit.

## Citing

Cite title, issue, page range and URL, for example: "love in berlin", proud #01, January 2009, pages 22-23, https://proud.xn--wp9h.tk/articles/love-in-berlin/.

## For software and AI agents

- [llms.txt](https://proud.xn--wp9h.tk/en/llms.txt) and [llms-full.txt](https://proud.xn--wp9h.tk/en/llms-full.txt): reading lists.
- Every page has a Markdown twin: add `index.md` to the URL or send `Accept: text/markdown`.
- JSON: [/api/articles.json](https://proud.xn--wp9h.tk/api/articles.json), [/api/authors.json](https://proud.xn--wp9h.tk/api/authors.json), [OpenAPI](https://proud.xn--wp9h.tk/api/openapi.json).
- Search: `https://proud.xn--wp9h.tk/api/search?q=techno`.
- MCP: [server card](https://proud.xn--wp9h.tk/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json).
- All access is read-only and needs no login.