At the end of 2003, a group of European Documentation Centres (EDC) started a project to archive electronic full texts published by EU Institutions on all Community policies. The focus is on working papers, reports, studies and grey literature, which are scattered on many different EU websites and not permanently accessible.

In 2005 the ArchiDok partners joined Academic LinkShare (ALS), a network of different university and research libraries offering internet portals on various topics.