ABSTRACT
Eiríkur G. Guðmundsson describes the issues of access to the archive of The Special Investigation Commission (SIC) that operated in Iceland in 2009–2010. The SIC was established by the Icelandic parliament to investigate the financial crisis and collapse of Iceland’s major banks in October 2008. After delivering a report of nine volumes in April 2010, the commission delivered its archive, full of sensitive confidential research data, to the National Archives of Iceland (NAI), which then became responsible for the SIC archive. This was an exceptionally difficult and complicated task for the NAI.
