Information management

View advice and guidance on information and records management and find out how our IMA programme helps to raise standards in government.

• Planning
• Policy and process
• Managing risk
• Selecting and transferring paper records
• Digital records transfer
• Preserving digital records
• Information Management Assessment programme

Learn about re-using public sector information (PSI), licensing and copyright.

• About PSI
• PSI Directive transposition and re-use regulations
• Licensing for re-use
• Complaints about re-use
• Copyright and re-use

Find guidance for government organisations, including producing and publishing Command, House of Commons and un-numbered Act Papers.

• Parliamentary papers guidance
• Publishing guidance
• Copyright statements in official publications
• Subsidy for the supply of official publications in public libraries
• Supplying publications to MEPs

Sign up for short courses in records and information management and information assurance, aimed at staff from government departments and public record bodies.

• Introduction to Information Management
• Digital Transfer training
• Appraisal and selection masterclass
• Cataloguing and file preparation e-learning
• Selection and transfer process foundation course
• Delivering Information Assurance training
• Management Board briefings
• Responsible for Information – for SMEs
• Digital continuity training
• Implementing the 20-year rule – transferring to places of deposit

Read about legislation that relates to, or affects, archives, records management or public sector information.

• Public Records Act
• Freedom of Information Act
• Data Protection Act
• Environmental Information Regulations
• Historical Manuscripts Commission Warrant
• Other archival legislation

Find out who to contact at The National Archives for advice or information.

• Contacts
• Re-users and licensees RSS feed
• Read our information management blogs