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| National Archives are collections of historical records.
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| Provides information about the country's geography, people, government, economy and tourism.
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| Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news.
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| The Archive National .Com is a free information service for the public.
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| Public records refers to information that has been filed or recorded by public agencies, such as corporate and property records.
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| Public records are created by the federal and local government, (vital records, immigration records, real estate records, driving records, criminal records, etc.) or by the individual (magazine subscriptions, voter registration, etc.). Most public records are maintained by the government and can be accessible to the public free of charge.
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| Access to public records in the US at the federal level is guided by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Availability is determined by federal, state, and local regulations. Each state has its own version of FOIA.
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| Colorado : Colorado Open Records Act (CORA)
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| New Jersey: the law is known as the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). There are many degrees of accessibility to public records between states, with some making it fairly easy to request and receive documents, and others with many exemptions and restricted categories of documents.
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| New York is fairly responsive to public records requests. Committee on Open Government to assist citizens with their requests. Pennsylvania is other state with fairly restrictive response to public records requests.
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| The Freedom of Information - FOI gives people a right of access to information held by public bodies. The range of public bodies covered by FOI is very wide, ranging from central government departments to individual schools and parish councils. A full list of the bodies affected - FOI authorities - can be found in Schedule 1 of the Act. A separate Act covers public authorities in Scotland - the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.External website - link opens in a new windowThe list includes The National Archives and the rights of access apply both to our own administrative records and to the archives (the records transferred to us from other government departments).
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| National Archives UK - Access to Archives (A2A) - the English strand of the UK archives network
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| Archives Hub - Gateway to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges, part of the National Archives Network
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| British Cartoon Archive associated with the University of Kent
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| AIM25 - archives within the UK M25 area.
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| The Changing World of Records Storage
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| The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
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| ICA International Council on Archives
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| InterPares - International project on electronic records
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| Public Technology
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| Guides to Public Records from UCB Libraries GovPubs
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| UNESCO Archives Portal - over 8000 links worldwide
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| Publications from the U.S. Government from USA.gov
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| Guide to Public Records from Libraries and Gov Publications
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| Online archive of personal information
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