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Maxwell, Terrence A. – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Summarizes some of the activities the United States government has undertaken to control the dissemination of information since 2001. It also explores, through a conceptual model of information flows, potential impacts and discontinuities between policy purposes and outcomes. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Federal Government, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewedFeintuck, Mike – Government Information Quarterly, 1996
Despite the 1993 White Paper on Open Government and the resulting Code of Practice on Access to Government Information, Britain has a reputation for secrecy and no Freedom of Information Act. Examines the use by government ministers of Public Interest Immunity Certificates to deny litigants access to government documents in the course of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Court Litigation, Foreign Countries
