Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age (open access)

Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age

This report addresses the opportunities to improve the dissemination of Federal information. It also highlights two major problems: maintaining equity in public access to Federal information in electronic formats, and defining the respective roles of Federal agencies and the private sector in the electronic dissemination process. The report focuses on current and future roles of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Superintendent of Documents, the Depository Library Program (administered by GPO), and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). In addition, this report examines electronic dissemination of congressional information, the Freedom of Information Act in an electronic environment, and electronic dissemination of government information to the press.
Date: October 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library