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The State Politics & Policy Data Archive is a free-access, web-based archive of publication-related datasets focusing on comparative American state politics & policy research. This essay describes the utility of the archive, provides instruction on its use, & requests that readers contribute data. 2 Tables, 25 References. Adapted from the source document.

Describes the difficulties encountered by historians who attempt to review contemporary French archives in spite of a 1979 law providing access. The French state monitors what can be examined, even by professional historians, & is especially protective of any material that might offend the official powers. This practice allowed the collaborationist past of former President Francois Mitterrand to be concealed until he was near death & still hides many particulars of the Vichy government. In general, Vichy scholarship represents official views & the few dissenting voices have faced the possibility of being ostracized. The role of historians in revealing past transgressions, & the risky business of dealing with contemporary events, are discussed. J. Lindroth

The Roper Center, located at Williams Coll (Williamstown, Mass), is the major library of sample survey data in the world today. Currently, over 60 survey org's in the US & abroad are placing the basic data from their studies at the Center, thus making them available to scholars for secondary analysis. To date, approximately 2,800 studies, dating from 1936 to the present, & conducted in 39 countries, have been sent to the Roper Center. Access to these data is granted to accredited scholars, & others doing res in the public interest. Over 2,500 scholars from all parts of the world have thus far made use of the Center's data, res facilities, & services. AA.

Issues of access and descriptive standards for post-Soviet archives; some focus on economic constraints; Russian Federation. Includes a list of archival centers.

While the present state of Salvadoran historiography encourages research in previously unexplored areas, no easy transition can be made from research projects to source materials. Scholars desiring to work on El Salvador will find that access to Salvadoran archival holdings is currently hindered by skeletal staffing and problematic working conditions. Finding the desired documents consequently involves more than the usual amount of sifting through papers. This research note provides a guide to archival and other historical materials available in the United States and El Salvador and places these sources in the context of major questions left unanswered by the historiography covering 1700 to 1940. (Lat Am Res Rev/DÜI)

The historiography on the Leningrad Blockade began during the war. The leadership of Leningrad prescribed a heroic and patriotic narrative. After the "Leningrad Affair" in 1949, the topic was taboo. Only in the 1960s did historians once again address the blockade, but the subject remained on the periphery. Ideological specifications and censorship defined the framework of what was presentable well into the 1980s. The archival material available was limited; access to western publications impossible. Since Perestroika, new sources and questions have allowed fresh insights into everyday life in besieged Leningrad. Russia's historiography on the blockade is now integrated into international study of history. Adapted from the source document.

The Chinese town of Hunchun has been at the heart of Northeast Asian cooperation and development plans since the early 1990s, but in a region where maritime connections are essential, Hunchun lacks direct sea access. I explore how the sea has remained a powerful animating force behind Chinese visions for Hunchun's future. After providing an ethnographic account of the contemporary place of the sea in local discourses of Hunchun's identity, I draw on archival material to analyze the politico-linguistic history of maritime affairs in this part of China and beyond. I examine how the notion yang (ocean/foreign) transformed from being a label of foreign interventions in China to serving as a metaphor for domestic economic progress. The sea is both a distant dream and a source of concrete developmental potential for Hunchun today. It is also an optic through which to observe the town's future. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)

The Inter-U Consortium for Pol'al Res (ICPR) is a cooperative arrangement between a large number of major U's & the Survey Res Center of the U of Michigan. The org is designed to promote the development of empirical res in the pol'al sci's through (1) the creation of archival resources & the facilitation of access to scattered data collections; (2) the providing of increased res experience & technical training; & (3) the stimulation of res ideas through increased COMM between scholars of like interests, & the support of new res projects. Organized in 1962 with 21 members, the ICPR now numbers 39 members, primarily though not exclusively Amer. Membership is on the basis of instit'al rather than individual participation. Training goals are already being realized in the form of summer training & res seminars, & a major archive of both survey & other kinds of pol'al data is now operational. The ICPR is also actively promoting collaboration between diverse soc sci data archives developing in the US & abroad. (See SA 0104-B2279) P. E. Converse.