Which national archives have useful online access for naval research?
Short answerUS and UK collections are improving, but reciprocal arrangements with researchers near local archives remain useful for material that is not online.
NotesUS national collections offer some of the stronger online access, while UK archives are also improving. None of these systems eliminates the gaps created by incomplete digitization. Researchers who live near different collections can exchange retrieval work. The aircraft-carrier collaboration described here began through such an arrangement, showing how informal scholarly networks can unlock otherwise inaccessible sources.