This collection consists of archival captures of websites created by various research centers and groups within The New School and its academic departments, including the Center for New York City Affairs, the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. The files are preserved in the form of archived webpages or PDF documents and other related files, including audio and video files, dated after 2017.

Web-based content is captured on an ongoing basis using the Internet Archive's Archive-It software, Conifer, and Browsertrix. Due to the techniques and tools of web harvesting, and the evolving nature of the Internet, some websites have been crawled more comprehensively than others and are represented more faithfully than others.

This collection contains working papers and other academic papers, printed and typescripts, stemming from the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA), later known as the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) in 2005. The bulk are working papers identified as series 1, 2, and 3. Individual papers in series are numbered, some are revisions.