由于电子文件、档案的产生 ,包括我国在内的各国档案工作者在研究电子文件、档案的管理时 ,对百多年来行之有效的来源原则进行了重新思考。不少人一度怀疑来源原则在电子文件、档案时代的适用性。笔者研读了近些年发表的相关论著 ,从各国档案学者对来源原则的肯定性评价中得出 Due to the emergence of electronic documents and archives, the archivists of various countries, including our country, have conducted rethinking on the principles of proven sources that have existed for over a hundred years while studying the management of electronic documents and archives. Many people once suspected the applicability of the source principle in electronic documents and archives. The author has studied the relevant articles published in recent years and drawn from the affirmative evaluation of the principle of source by archivists of various countries