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...documents in darkened room, trying to discern their meaning and import. But before a scholar can reach that stage, there has to be a lot of preparatory work to ascertain what records were created and where they are. This can be thought of as bibliographical research, since much of what a scholar wants to do is to get some kind of bibliographic citation to an item of information. Correctly identifying something is at least 40 percent of the research process. Many bibliographical reference books for official government publications exist; it is harder to pin down the multitude of internal documents that bureaucracies produce, especially national...

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