May 2011, accelerated the beginning of the termination activities to FY 2011 with their completion in FY 2012. On October 3, 2011, USGS announced on all NBII websites and applications that on January 15, 2012, the NBII website and any applications residing on the nbii.gov domain would be shut down, and it was. Before that shutdown, the Library of Congress, Internet Archive and Stanford Libraries all independently harvested the data from the NBII Website. Stanford Libraries harvested the site twice between January 5 and January 13, 2012 for storage in its Fugitive US Agencies collection. Data and metadata from the Mid Atlantic Information Node (MAIN), Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Node (FAR), and the Bird Node which were hosted by Penn State University (https://www.nacse.org/home/news/2009/2009july/NBII_Summer_09.pdf) were harvested and the information made available through the Data Commons (http://www.datacommons.psu.edu/) at Penn State. Notes External links "National Biological Information Infrastructure" home web page archived 5 January 2012. Stanford Libraries Fugitive US Agencies collection. Biodiversity Information technology management Scientific organizations based in the United States United States Geological Survey Nature conservation organizations based in the United States