Publications
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: An Archival Commentary. 2018
Temporary Courts, Permanent Records, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars website, 2008
Special Report 170: Temporary Courts, Permanent Records, United States Institute of Peace, 2006
Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving Records of Truth Commissions, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
Co-author, with Gary M. Peterson, Archives and Manuscripts: Law, Society of American Archivists, 1985
Basic Archival Workshop Exercises, Society of American Archivists, 1982
Ed., Farmers, Bureaucrats, and Middlemen: Historical Perspectives on American Agriculture, Howard University Press, 1980
Agricultural Exports, Farm Income, and the Eisenhower Administration, University of Nebraska Press, 1979
News from the ICA Human Rights Working Group, International Council on Archives website, monthly, 2009-
Archives, Agency and the State, in Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters, eds., State-Sponsored History Handbook, Palgrave Press (forthcoming)
Archival Advocacy: Profession, people, power, and small “p” politics, in Christine Weideman and Mary Caldera, eds., Festschrift for Mark Greene (forthcoming)
The ‘I’ in Government ArchIves, Asian Education and Development Studies. 2019, Vol. 8 No. 2
Proof, Informatio, University of the Republic of Uruguay, 2018
Co-author, with Elisabeth Baumgartner, Mapping Archives for Dealing with the Past Processes, swisspeace 2017
Archives, Agency and the State, in Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters, eds., State-Sponsored History Handbook, Palgrave Press, 2017
Co-author, with Valentina Cadelo, Principle 14, Principle 15, and Principle 17 in Paola Gaeta, Frank Haldemann and Thomas Unger, The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2018
Managing Turbulence, in Milena Dobreva, ed., Digital Archives: Management, Access and Use, Facet Publishing, 2018
Archives for Justice, Archives of Justice, in James B. Gardner and Paula Hamilton, eds., The Handbook of Public History, Oxford University Press, 2017
Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Archives, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights series, 2015
No Closure without Disclosure, in Kleion pauloisaa (Festshrift for Jussi Nuorteva), Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2014
Rights and Responsibilities: The Role of the Archivist, SAP–Yearbook 2014, Stichting Archiefpublicaties, The Netherlands
Our Archives and Our Rights, Revista de Girona (Spain), July-August 2014
The Probative Value of Archival Documents, swisspeace, 2014
National Archives and the International Council on Archives: Converging and Diverging, Atlanti, 2013
Searching for Support: Preserving the Records of the Nuclear Claims Tribunal, Groniek, 2013
Securing Police Archives, swisspeace, 2013
Archives Research as Unfinished Business, Using History to Inform Development Policy, World Bank, 2013
Application of ISAD(G) for Human Rights Archives, International Council on Archives, October 2012 (update of 2005)
Searching for Support: Preserving the Records of the Nuclear Claims Tribunal, Groniek, No. 194, 2012
Human Rights, Documents, and Countries in Transition, IFYE News, September 2011
Principles of Access to Archives: A Status Report, Flash 22, July 2011
Human Rights, Human Wrongs, and Archives, III International Seminar on Archives from Andalusia: Archives and Human Rights, 2011
El valor probatorio del document de archive en los procesos judiciales, Tabula: Estudios archivisticos de Castilla y Leon 14, 2011
Um Projeto Sobre Acesso, Acervo: Revista do Arquivo Nacional, Brazil 24/1, 2011
Working Group on Access, Flash 21, December 2010
Archives against Amnesia, Politorbis 50, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland, 3/2010
To Have and To Have Not: Archives as Information, Archives as Symbol, Archives without Borders, Archiefkunde 12, 2012
Book review, Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective, Journal of Archival Organizations 6, Nos. 1-2, 2008; in Spanish in Tabula: Estudios archivisticos de Castilla y Leon 14, 2011
Attitudes and Access in the United States of America, Japan-US Friendship Association seminar, Society of American Archivists website, 2007
Application of ISAD(G) for Human Rights Archives, International Council on Archives website, 2005, update 2012
Archives in Service to the State: The Law of War and Records Seizure in Margaret Procter, et al, eds., Political Pressure and the Archival Record, Society of American Archivists, 2006; published 2008 in Lligall, the journal of the Catalan Society of Archivists
Access to Records of Intergovernmental Organizations, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars website, 2005
Truth and the Records of Truth Commissions, Studien und Quellen 30, 2004
Which Drawer Do You Use? in Bruce Ambacher, ed., Thirty Years of Electronic Records, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2003
The Nasty Truth about Nationalism and National Archives, Proceedings of the 5th General Conference of EASTICA, 2001
Democracy, Culture, and Archives of the European Union, Access to Official Documents and Archives, Riksarkiviet, Sweden, 2001
Macro Archives, Micro States, Archivaria, Fall 2000
Archival Parasailing, in Leszek Pudlowski and Ivan Szekely, eds., Open Society Archives, 1999
Making Money, Spending Money: Multinationals and their Records, in Francisco Daelemans, ed., Miscellanea in honorem Caroli Kecskemeti, 1998
Access Matters: Four Documents, National Archives of the United States website publication1998
The Internet and the Archives, Atlanti 8, 1998
Preservation, Access, and the Multinationals, IASSIST Quarterly Summer 1997
Archives of UNESCO Europe: A Comparative View, UNESCO World Information Report, 1997
Putting Records First to Make Them Last, Choosing to Preserve, European Commission on Preservation and Access, 1997
Reflections on the Record, Government Information Quarterly, Winter 1996
Using the Finding Aids to Archives and Manuscript Collections, in Charles A. D’Aniello, ed., Teaching Bibliographic Skills in History: A Sourcebook for Historians and Librarians, Greenwood Press, 1993
Privacy and Freedom of Information, Janus, Issue 2, 1992
Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic: Speculations on Change in Research Processes, American Archivist, Summer 1992
Dangerous Archives, Fourteenth Polar Libraries Colloquy, Proceedings, Summer 1992
Archival Bestiary, American Archivist, Spring 1991
Rural Life and the Privacy of Political Association, Agricultural History, Number 3, 1990
Federal Records, Privacy, and Public Officials in the United States, Janus, Issue 2, 1987
The National Archives and the Archival Theorist Revisited, 1954-1984, American Archivist, Spring 1986 (winner, Fellows' Posner Prize, 1987)
The National Archives: Substance and Shadows, 1965-1980, in Timothy Walch, ed., Guardian of Heritage: Essays on the History of the National Archives. National Archives, National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1985
Archival Principles and the Records of the New Technology, American Archivist, Fall 1984.
Archives, in R. Alton Lee, ed., Encyclopedia U.S.A., Academic International Press, 1983
Counting and Accounting: Speculation on Change in Recordkeeping Practices, American Archivist, Spring 1982
A Review of Two NARS Networks, The Midwestern Archivist, Vol. VI, No. 2, 1982
Documents in Time: The Archives of the United States and the National Archives and Records Service, Government Publications Review, Vol. 8A, No. 4, 1981
Education and Research in Archival Administration, in Joel Lee, ed., Encyclopedia of Library Science, 1980, reprinted 1986
After Five Years: As Assessment of the Amended U.S. Freedom of Information Act, American Archivist, Spring 1980; reprinted in Library Lit. 11–The Best of 1980, Scarecrow Press, 1981
Sales, Surpluses, and the Soviets: A Study in Political Economy, in Fraenkel, et al, ed., The Role of U.S. Agriculture in Foreign Policy, Praeger, 1979
Hedge Against Hunger: Food Reserves and the USDA, in Koerselman and Dull, ed., Food and Social Policy, Iowa State University Press, 1978
Archives, Access and the Freedom of Information Act, Law Library Journal, Fall 1979
Using the Freedom of Information Act to Acquire Archival Material, Law Library Journal, Fall 1979
The Gift and the Deed, American Archivist, January 1979
The Iowa Historical Records Survey, 1936-42, American Archivist, April 1974 (Gondos Award, Society of American Archivists)