Word: access
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...access rules. The material to which Schrecker...
While other universities are making it easier for scholars to do research on the history of higher education, Harvard has stuck by its rule that denies access to administrative records authored in the last 50 years...
This policy meant a dead-end for Princeton Lecturer in History Ellen W. Schrecker, who tried for several years to obtain Harvard documents from the 1950s. Published several months ago, Schrecker's book, "No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities," has renewed the battle between scholars and universities over access to archival material...
Archivists and some historians contend it is necessary to limit access to recent materials in order to encourage donors to leave full and frank records. To have more complete long-term historical records, the archives must protect the privacy of the living people mentioned in the material, they argue...
...scholars, including Schrecker, say that by restricting access to archival materia, universities, are preventing historians from obtaining a complete understanding of historical events...