{"id":1711,"date":"2023-05-30T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/?page_id=1711"},"modified":"2023-11-16T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T06:31:09","slug":"documents-accessibility-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/our-archive\/government-archive\/policies\/documents-accessibility-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents Accessibility Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"border border-radius-20 p-3\">\n<h2>Documents Accessibility Policy<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Definition:<\/strong>\u00a0This policy sets out the main principles of the legal procedures through which archival materials are to be made available for researchers and students according to Federal Law no. 7 of 2008 concerning the National Library and Archives and it\u2019s by law and the approved procedures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Enable the National Library and Archives to set the conditions for giving access to the archives.<\/li>\n<li>Enable researchers to have access to the information and documents needed to complete their studies, justify their rights and support decision making.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Text of the policy<\/strong>: The National Library and Archives is committed to the following:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Upon circulation of the documents and accessibility to researchers, the following conditions should apply:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Assure that the documents requested by researchers is not classified as confidential.<\/li>\n<li>Assure that the documents needed by researchers include content for the benefit of the researchers.<\/li>\n<li>Assure that the document is for scientific and historical research according to the classification system applied in the National Library and Archives.<\/li>\n<li>Grant access via a form prepared for that purpose.<\/li>\n<li>At the discretion of General Director of NA, permit access to the hard copy of the document.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Under this policy, and upon assessment, the National Library and Archives determines the types of documents that may be accessed according to certified standards and laws.<\/li>\n<li>After the documents classification as confidential has been removed, the documents may be viewed.<\/li>\n<li>Measures must be taken to ensure that documents will not be subject to loss or damage due to handling.<\/li>\n<li>The use of directives and procedures upon circulation of electronic, sound and visual documents due to their fragility.<\/li>\n<li>Measures must be taken to avoid transferring the borrowed documents to units, employees, researchers and preventing leakage of their content.<\/li>\n<li>Appropriate procedures must be followed for returning all the documents on time, with possibility of extension according to the needs of the research.<\/li>\n<li>Abide with the procedures and conditions to access private archives stored within the National Library and Archives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents Accessibility Policy Definition:\u00a0This policy sets out the main principles of the legal procedures through which archival materials are to be made available for researchers and students according to Federal Law no. 7 of 2008 concerning the National Library and Archives and it\u2019s by law and the approved procedures. Purpose: Enable the National Library and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712,"parent":1691,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-with-banner.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1711\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}