1. Administrative, Research, and Publishing Records, 2000-2015
Scope and Contents
Consists of research administrative and regulatory records, research data, and publishing records, generated and compiled by Marie C. McCormick during her tenure as Principal Investigator for Phase IV of the Infant Health and Development Program. Research administrative records frequently consist of: meeting minutes and agendas for site directors’ meetings; IRB and protocol application records (consent forms, safety plans, confidentiality certificates, and related correspondence); financial records (budgets and invoices); grant funding records and correspondence; reports and project descriptions; and administrative correspondence and memoranda. Administrative records also include: personnel management and training records; staff and funder contact lists; data sharing policy records; participant recruitment records; and project calendars and timelines. Research regulatory records include: blank and annotated survey instruments and interview schedules; codebooks; variable lists and descriptions; and procedures manuals, protocols, and methodologies. Research data consists of: summarized and analyzed data tables and graphs; database inventories; and coded and analyzed databases and datasets. Publishing records include manuscript drafts, abstracts, bibliographies, and publishing correspondence related to IHDP research findings, frequently from previous phases of the program. Subseries also includes public speaking presentations, posters, and collected publications. Frequent topics in this subseries include: behavior; academic performance and engagement; physical health; obesity; puberty; sexual activity; family and peer relationships; family conflict; substance use and abuse; suicidal thoughts; safety, danger, and self-protective behavior; criminal activity; household composition and environment; parents’ marital status; family socioeconomic details; maternal parenting philosophy; maternal views of children’s behavior; mother’s friend and family relationships; maternal involvement in child’s education and social activities; and numerous other topics. Frequent file formats include: Microsoft Word documents (.doc and .docx); SAS, SPSS, and Microsoft Access dataset files (.mdb, .sas, .sas7bdat, .sav, and .sd7); text documents (.txt); comma separated value files (.csv); Adobe portable document format files (.pdf); Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (.ppt); web pages (.htm); images (.jpg); rich text format document files (.rtf); Microsoft Project files (.mpp); and Microsoft Viseo diagram files (.vsd). More IHDP records may be found in Series IB and IC. More publishing records may be found in Series III.
Dates
- Creation: 2000-2015
Language of Materials
The papers are predominantly in English. The collection also contains occasional papers in French, Japanese, and Spanish.
Conditions Governing Access
Subseries 1 includes longitudinal patient information that is restricted for 80 years from the most recently dated records in Series IC, personnel information that is restricted for 80 years from the date of record creation, and Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston institutional records that are restricted for 50 years from the date of record creation. These restrictions are marked where they appear in the network file directory.
Access to electronic records is premised on the availability of a computer station, requisite software, and/or the ability of Public Services staff to review and/or print out records of interest in advance of an on-site visit. Researchers should contact Public Services for more information.
Conditions Governing Use
Access to electronic records is premised on the availability of a computer station, requisite software, and/or the ability of Public Services staff to review and/or print out records of interest in advance of an on-site visit. Researchers should contact Public Services for more information.
Extent
0.876 Gigabytes (electronic records on network storage)Arrangement
At the time of acquisition, two artificial groupings of these records were created to ease transfer of the electronic records. These groupings were removed, to better reflect the records’ original arrangement. More information on this arrangement may be found in the collection’s electronic records documentation folder on the network drive. No further arrangement was undertaken, and the records’ original (roughly topical) file structure has otherwise been maintained.
Processing Information
Electronic records were imaged using Access Data’s FTK and a Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device, upon transfer to the Center. Records were then transferred to secure storage. Using FTK, records were screened for explicit and encrypted files, and use copies were extracted. Files that could be opened were sampled for content, however, researchers should be aware that not every file in the subseries could be opened and assessed. At the time of acquisition, two artificial groupings of these records were created to ease transfer of the electronic records. These groupings were removed, to better reflect the records’ original arrangement. More information on this arrangement may be found in the collection’s electronic records documentation folder on the network drive. Researchers should be aware that most dates in this subseries were determined based on the file creation or modification dates (whichever is earlier). However, these dates may not always accurately reflect the actual creation or modification dates.
Creator
- From the Collection: McCormick, Marie C. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) Repository
The Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine is one of the world's leading resources for the study of the history of health and medicine. Our mission is to enable the history of medicine and public health to inform healthcare, the health sciences, and the societies in which they are embedded.