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Gregory, J. G. – 1982
This paper describes why freedom of information (FOI) is important to scientists, the restrictions which the Official Secrets Act of 1951 places upon release of information by public officials in New Zealand, reasons for covert official resistance to FOI as suggested by information science literature, and how changes in the economic management of…
Descriptors: Disclosure, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Science
