Records and Information Management Service (RIMS)

A-Z Topics in Records Management

This A to Z Guide provides brief explanations on the terminology, procedures, services, and basic issues relating to records and information management and related legislation and requirements.

Suggestions as to additional entries in this A to Z Guide, and comments on the current content, should be directed to the Records and Information Management Service.

• Archive Services
• Disposal of records
• Electronic Document and Records Management System
• Encryption
• Good Practice Guides to Records Management
• Inaccurate Data
• Information Governance Group
• JISC Record Retention Schedules
• Policies and Strategies
• Principles of the Data Protection Act
• Records
• Records Management
• Records Retention Schedules
• Retention of Research Data
• Section 61 Code of Practice
• Security
• Subject Access Requests
• Training for staff and students
• University Records Centre