The Intellectual Infrastructure Underpinning Records Management within Pfizer Central Research

Abstract

In discussions with fellow professionals regarding the progress that Pfizer Central Research is having in installing and implementing its Central Electronic Archive (CEA) there is always surprise expressed that its development is complementary to, and has the same intellectual base as our hard copy Records Centre. Although the mantra of "regardless of medium" has been used in the records management world for at least a decade, it now seems that it was only thought to apply to the need for records management not the actual process.