Zvláštní režim přístupu k archivním pramenům. Privilegium nebo nezbytnost?

• Authors: Mikuláš Čtvrtník

Title variants

EN

Special regime of access to archival sources: privilege or necessity?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with the topic of setting the access regime to archival sources of public legal provenance and analyses the modalities of special (privileged) access to historical sources of archival nature, especially for research purposes on a comparative level using the examples of the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The paper discusses the topic of a special access regime to archival records, among other things, from the perspective of protecting personal rights and privacy. It examines the advantages, disadvantages and risks of individual solutions and seeks an answer to the question of whether a special access regime to archival sources is necessary in a democratic society or constitutes a violation of the fundamental principle of equal rights and becomes a tool for privileging some researchers over others.

Keywords

EN

archives; historical sources; personal data protection; privacy protection; privileged access to archives; access to archival materials

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 123
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 259-287
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mikuláš Čtvrtník

• Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic