Care policy documents are available for reading or downloading Application references: Appointment scheduling system, Local care policy archive.
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.
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.
However, it is clear from the evolution of DNA sequence archive policy (described above) that the cost/benefit of data archiving needs to be kept under review with respect to the resolution that is preserved, particularly where technology is changing rapidly.
A major challenge facing anyone interested in researching the past output of Independent Television is that each franchise had its own archiving policy.
While thousands of other programmes have been destroyed in this way around the world, the missing Doctor Who episodes are probably the best-known example of how the lack of a consistent programme archiving policy can have long-term effects.
This year we will also be finalizing our data archiving policy, which will be implemented in 2011.
