The phrase "accessing archive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of retrieving or looking into stored information or data, typically in a digital context.
Example: "The team is currently accessing the archive to find the necessary documents for the project."
Alternatives: "retrieving data" or "consulting the archive".
Accessing archives of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, Mr. Billington and other scholars hoped to answer questions of history: Did the American diplomat Alger Hiss spy for Moscow?
In addition, repositories must ensure that discovering and accessing archived data sets is easy enough to encourage exploration without becoming a disproportionate maintenance burden.
July 14 , 2016 The hackers send a file to WikiLeaks with instructions on accessing the archive of DNC documents.
The report lists government efforts to prevent the IVD accessing national archives to find evidence of past crimes, as well as pressure from a union of security service workers who rejected efforts by the commission to refer members to trial.
Professor Philip Murphy, who wrote the book after accessing the archives in his role as director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, admitted Lord Mountbatten's choice of words could be taken with "a pinch of salt", but said they paint a picture of the threat posed by the infamous dictator at the time.
This is the first volume to overview the complex Romanian transitional justice effort by accessing secret archives and investigating court trials of former Communist perpetrators, lustration, compensation and rehabilitation, property restitution, the truth commission, the rewriting of history books, and unofficial truth projects.
This was done by accessing the archives (1998 200404) from two of the main laboratories in the Netherlands – both located at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht - that independently provide histopathological (Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Center) - or cytological diagnostic services (University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory).
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