Knowledge or science archives in a changing world

Resumen

Europe underwent a fundamental change in the late 1980's and early 1990's. In the middle of the 1980's Europe was divided between the West with its society based upon democratic principies and the East where the state had encompassed every aspect of life. Also the archives, their organisation and practice, reflected the existence of the totalitarian state. With the events between 1989 and 1991 we experienced the emergente of freedom of information and a democratic system. But a condition for a stable democratic state system is a legal framework for access to information. In this context records administration and archives play a most crucial role.