Inquire about policy archiving services.
Serum was separated and stored at –20°C in the Department of Virology, University College London Hospital, in accordance with laboratory policy to archive samples from carriers because of the long incubation time to clinical expression of HBV-related chronic liver disease.
For the rare cases in which it was perhaps inappropriate, the cost of understanding, capturing and implementing a differentiated policy on archiving was higher than any potential gain in efficiency for the archive.
Random House, for instance, "does not have in place a distinct corporate policy for archiving electronic author-publisher correspondence, and we have yet to establish a central electronic archive for housing publishing material," a company spokesman told Donadio.
The University of Southampton policy on archiving will be followed; the data will be stored for 10 years following the end of the study, after which time it will be disposed of securely.
In interviews with people across the book business, Rachel Donadio, a writer and editor at the Book Review, discovered that few publishing houses have established policies for archiving their e-mail messages, and not all editors and writers take the time or effort to save theirs.
The Library of Congress has something like an opt-in policy; the Internet Archive has an opt-out policy.
The BBC has a policy of removing archive footage of Savile "where the material is likely to cause offence to his victims".
Simon Rooks, head of archive policy at BBC Archives, said the current whereabouts of the original AFRS disc was unknown.
Not a good sign, then, that pay wall logic lives on in the archive policy the Times has adopted after Times-Select.
