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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

McMurtry, John – Canadian Social Studies, 1996
Castigates the supposed "knowledge-based economy" as simply a public relations smokescreen covering up the free market exploitation of people and resources serving corporate interests. Discusses the many ways that private industry, often with government collusion, has controlled or denied dissemination of information to serve its own interests.…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Computer Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks