Middle East Centre Archive

Policy on Remote Access to the Archive

Please note that we are unable to support remote access to the Archive through the copying of documents. With remote copying orders researchers tend to order copies of entire boxes or files as they are not sure what is relevant to their research as they have not seen the material. This places unnecessary and destructive physical pressure on the documents as well as being beyond our labour resources. Where individual items are identified from a catalogue the labour of finding material is also transferred from the researcher to the Archivist, which is also beyond our labour resources. Consequently our policy is to require researchers to first visit the Archive to see the Collections they have identified an interest in before being able to order copies. For further details please see our Copying of Archives policy.

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