Study On The Establishing Of The Legal System Of Archival Opening And Utilization

With the advancement of society, archives become so important that more and more people demand the archives opening and make use of them. In information times, the environment of Archival Opening and Utilization has changed completely: Civil right to know need to be protect in a political democracy country; The advancement of technology provides exterior conditions for the development of electronic government and opening of government information; National archives will try their best to walk up to the civilian in the opening way. Regulating Archival Opening and Utilization requires the legal notion and legal means, which are not only the vital content of the legal system of archives, but also the pressing demands of the national legal system. Archives department should grasp the opportunity of the opening of government information to establish the legal system of the archival opening and utilization, which is the premise to respect and protect civil rights to know and access to archives.After discussing the macro-background and the significance of Archival Opening and Utilization, the thesis defines the concepts of archival opening and utilizing, and introduces the active laws and regulations about the Archives Opening and Utilization. Then based on the modern changes, the thesis analyzes the legislation,administration and popularization on Archival Opening and Utilizing. Establishing the legal system should follow these principles: legality principle, reasonable principle, information opening in principle, timing principle, convenience principle, equality principle and unanimity principle. In order to resolve the problems of active legal system, we should amend the defects of the active laws and regulations about Archival Opening and Utilization, improve the level of administration, and propagandize the laws and regulations about Archival Opening and Utilizing. Nowadays archives department should take the open idea to advance the establishing of legal system of Archival Opening and Utilization.In the end, the civil right of access to archives is the ultimate aim of the establishing of legal system of Archival Opening and Utilization. Meanwhile, civilians should protect others' right of privacy and authors' copyright when they make use of archives.