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Beyond Information Quality: Fitness for Purpose and Electronic Information Resource Use.
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Klobas, Jane E. – Journal of Information Science, 1995
Examines influences on the use of electronic information resources, including the Internet. Highlights include information quality and accessibility; the Technology Assessment Model; the Fitness for Purpose model; the Theory of Planned Behavior; and a study in Australia that compared the ability of these models to explain electronic information…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries
The Evolving National Information Network: Background and Challenges. A Report of the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee to the Commission on Preservation and Access.
Van Houweling, Douglas E.; McGill, Michael J. – 1993
The rapidly developing and changing networking and telecommunications environment now being implemented in the United States and across the globe is explored. The creation of a flexible and inexpensive digital network allowing instantaneous access by any individual to information of any type is now within our grasp. A primer on the technology…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
EDUCATE: The Design and Development of a Networked End-User Education Program.
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Thomasson, Gunilla; Fjallbrant, Nancy – Education for Information, 1996
Describes the EDUCATE program (End-User Courses in Information Access through Communication Technology), funded by the European Union for the education of information users. The aim is to produce a self-paced user education course in the selection and use of information sources found on the World Wide Web. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries
Redefining Services to Libraries.
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Hearty, John; Smith, Robert – Information Services and Use, 1993
Describes the strategic plan developed for reference services offered by OCLC Online Computer Library Center to provide easier access to, and use of, information and knowledge. Topics addressed include the environment of libraries and publishers, including budgets, networks, and pricing, and future plans, including an emphasis on online products.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Utilities, Budgeting, Computer Networks
Electronic U.S. Government Information: Policy Issues and Directions.
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Hernon, Peter; McClure, Charles R. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1993
Provides an overview of U.S. federal information policy and its treatment of electronic information resources. Highlights include government publications; electronic government information; main providers of government information, including the Government Printing Office; the Freedom of Information Act; public access and use; information…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Copyrights, Databases
Educational Research and the Internet.
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Mashhadi, Azam; Han, Christine – 1996
The Internet has major implications for both education and educational research. According to John Dewey (1916), the form of experience that is most educative is participation in shared inquiry. The Internet "represents a dynamically evolving virtual world, with virtual communities forming all over the place, each composed of people with…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Computer Literacy, Computer Networks