Finally, there are open-access archives, where organisations such as universities or international laboratories support institutional repositories.

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At the same time, it is impossible to fully accept Pacepa's assertions in light of the Vatican's refusal to open its wartime archives.

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We have written these special stories to mark Archive Awareness Month, a campaign to open up many archives around the UK and encourage the public to look at the treasures they contain.

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The proposals - by the Local Government Association and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council - aim to keep open some 400 libraries amid funding cuts.

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They say that the publishers are too mean to open the online versions of their journals and their archives to non-subscribers, denying scientists an even wider audience.

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Nearly a third of YouTube's archives have already made the transition to the open source format, though if you think that's a small proportion, you should probably know that those 30 percent account for 99 percent of all views on the site.

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But some of the archives - French and the Armenian archives, the Dashnak archives which are in Boston - have never really been open to the public.

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