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When archival access is not permission to publish

Accidental access to an unreleased archival document calls for discretion until formal disclosure.

Notes

Archive access can expose a historian to documents that have not yet been formally released. An inadvertently supplied document creates a disclosure problem even when the surrounding folders are open. Professional etiquette calls for keeping the material private until formal disclosure. Records can later become public through the normal release process.