Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments RESEARCH DOCUMENT COLLECTION Origin of the Collection The Research Document Collection has been assembled in greater part from records held by agencies of the federal government and identified and retrieved by those agencies under search strategies presented to the Interagency Working Group in pursuance of the President's directives of January and February 1994. These agency-held records have been supplemented by (a) requests for specific records made to agencies by members and staff of the Advisory Committee, (b) agency records identified in federal records centers or at the National Archives and selected either by agency staff or Advisory Committee staff, (c) materials obtained from Congress and other government entities, (d) private records held by individuals or institutions and either identified and requested or retrieved by Advisory Committee staff or voluntarily submitted by individuals, organizations, and institutions, and (e) records created by the Advisory Committee, consisting primarily of reports of research generally created for presentation at meetings of the Advisory Committee, and secondarily of records of particular research projects. Organization of the Collection The organization of the Research Document Collection is based on the provenance of the records, which is equated to the source of the records from ACHRE's perspective. A record for each discrete deposit is created recording the circumstances of its origin, a brief collection description, and the assignment of its own identification number and selections from controlled vocabulary lists. In many cases this information is supplemented by inventories either supplied by the agency or created by Advisory Committee staff. Some inventories supplied by agencies are available in electronic formats. All records of the collection created by the Advisory Committee have been created electronically, and some agency inventories and related materials have been entered electronically as well. After review of the collection by research staff, additional records describing documents or document sets of substantive research importance may also be created. The resulting database thus contains collection descriptions, collection inventories, and document descriptions. Information Contained in the ACHRE Gopher The records contained in the ACHRE gopher are brief summary descriptions of each collection consisting of the identification code (accession number); a brief physical description (volume, media), the source (a subsidiary office or individual; for provenance codes, see below); and a brief contents description. The information in the gopher does not include collection inventories or document descriptions. Accession Number (Provenance) Codes The accession number for each discrete collection consists of three particles: the provenance code, identifying the origin of the collection; a six digit number identifying the date of receipt of the collection; and a one letter designation discriminating among the accessions from a specific source on a specific day. For example, DOD-052894-A is the first accession record from the Department of Defense on May 28, 1994. The following is a list of the codes now in use and an explanation of their use. DEPOSITING ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Depositor Code Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments ACHRE Baylor University BAY Boston University BU Central Intelligence Agency CIA Commonwealth of Massachusetts MASS Congress CON Corporation CORP Department of Defense DOD Department of Energy DOE Department of Health and Human Services HHS Department of Justice DOJ Department of Veterans Affairs VA Environmental Protection Agency EPA General Accounting Office GAO George Washington University GWU Harvard University HAR Individual IND Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Montefiore Medical Center MON National Academy of Sciences NAS National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA National Archives and Records Administration NARA Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC Smithsonian Institution SMITH State of California CA State of Oregon ORE State of Washington WASH Texas A&M University TEX University of California-Los Angeles UCLA University of California-San Francisco UCSF University of Chicago UCH University of Cincinnati UCIN University of Michigan UM University of Tennessee UT University of Wisconsin-Madison UWM Vanderbilt University VU Virginia Commonwealth University VCU West Virginia University WVU ACHRE as a source implies that the information was created as part of ACHRE activities. Agency sources (except NARA) are chiefly depositors of their own records or those of their contractors currently under their control. NARA as a source implies that the information was obtained either from NARA itself or from federal records centers, usually selected and retrieved by ACHRE staff. Non-federal organizations that are repositories of records concerning HRE activities are separately identified, but non-repository organizations (such as law firms, stakeholder groups, etc.) are listed under Corporation. Private citizens are listed under Individual. .