Founded in 1894, the Van Alen Institute has long been a force for the promotion of architectural education in the United States. CollectiveAccess is being used by the Institute to catalogue its archive of architectural competition entries, programs, and jury reports from 1904 through 1994. A customized web front-end is being developed to publish the archive online in early 2010.

The Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Germany, used CollectiveAccess to create Lost Films — an online hub for the thousands of mostly silent-era films believed lost. The site documents these films through surviving photographs, film fragments and documents. In addition to featuring extensive search and browse features, the site accepts user-submitted comments and content.

PhilaPlace, an interactive exploration of the neighborhoods of Philadelphia developed by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, uses CollectiveAccess to manage the foundation of the site, an online archive of thousands of images and videos from HSP, its content partners and site visitors.

The Coney Island History Project, an historical society dedicated to preserving the legacy of the historic 125-year old New York amusement park, uses CollectiveAccess to manage and publish online its archive of photos, documents, books and oral histories, and to generate maps of geo-located photographs.