Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2004.10.001
J. Ramón Gil-García
Drawing on a review of government information management and information technology (IT) success factors, this paper compares the availability of IT policies and standards in the states. Two main objectives guide the comparative review effort. The first is to show what kinds of information policies the different states make available to citizens through their Web sites. This paper offers a preliminary list of the main IT policies that are available to the public through the Internet. The second objective is to present a theoretical framework to understand the importance of IT policies and standards to government organizations. This paper compares what theory has established about IT policy with the practices of the various states. In general terms, there seems to be some degree of consistency among the states regarding which IT issues to take into account for policy and standard development. Security, internal networks, e-mail usage, software standards, and privacy show up as the most important and frequently selected IT-related topics and concerns.
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Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-11-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2004.09.005
Donald A. Ritchie
Sealed for 50 years, the transcripts of the executive session hearings conducted by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, as chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in 1953 and 1954, were recently opened for research. The Senate Historical Office edited the transcripts for publication by the Government Printing Office and on the Internet. The hearings provide new insights into the senator's methods of operations. While they started out reasonably, the hearings quickly descended into paranoia, conspiracy theory, and merciless badgering of witnesses by the senator and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn. The closed hearings served as dress rehearsals for televised public hearings, and also gave Senator McCarthy an opportunity to release selected information to manipulate his media coverage. They conclude with the Army-McCarthy hearings that ultimately led to the senator's censure.
由参议员约瑟夫·r·麦卡锡(Joseph R. McCarthy)担任参议院常设调查委员会(Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations)主席,于1953年和1954年主持的行政会议听证会的笔录封存了50年,最近才公开供研究。参议院历史办公室编辑了文字记录,由政府印刷局出版,并在互联网上发布。听证会让人们对参议员的运作方式有了新的认识。虽然一开始还算合理,但听证会很快就变成了偏执、阴谋论,以及参议员和他的首席律师罗伊·科恩(Roy Cohn)对证人的无情纠缠。这次非公开听证会是电视公开听证会的彩排,也给了麦卡锡参议员一个机会,发布一些特定的信息,以操纵他的媒体报道。他们最后举行了陆军-麦卡锡听证会,最终导致了参议员的谴责。
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Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-06-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2004.03.004
Charles D. Bernholz
{"title":"Sustainable Development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins","authors":"Charles D. Bernholz","doi":"10.1016/j.jgi.2004.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jgi.2004.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of government information : an international review of policy, issues and resources","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 110-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jgi.2004.03.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54471162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2003.12.019
Ru Story-Huffman
{"title":"Privacy International Web site","authors":"Ru Story-Huffman","doi":"10.1016/j.jgi.2003.12.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jgi.2003.12.019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of government information : an international review of policy, issues and resources","volume":"30 5","pages":"Pages 778-781"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jgi.2003.12.019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54470843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-09-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2004.07.004
Bill Sleeman
The purpose of this column is to provide government information scholars and students with a broad overview of recent publications about government information from the literature of librarianship, archives, information technology management, public policy, and law. Given the volume of literature produced in this field, a columnist cannot claim comprehensive coverage. This column seeks to provide a broad, representative survey of literature that illustrates significant trends in the field.
Entries were identified through searches of bibliographic databases such as Library Literature, PAIS International, Ebsco Academic Elite, The Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, Science Direct, Westlaw's JLR database, WorldCat, and from manual scans of journals, newsletters, and Internet sites. Citations are to monographs and serials, journal and periodical articles, books, newsletters, and Internet sites. Coverage for this edition of the column includes items from both 2001 and 2002. Each citation is listed once under its primary topic and annotated if its content cannot be adequately determined from the title. Book reviews and Internet site reviews are generally excluded.
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Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-11-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.006
Charles D. Bernholz
{"title":"Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills: International Protectors and Providers: Peacekeepers, Humanitarian Aid Workers and the Media in the Midst of Crisis","authors":"Charles D. Bernholz","doi":"10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of government information : an international review of policy, issues and resources","volume":"30 5","pages":"Pages 787-788"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54471127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.002
Charles R. McClure
{"title":"United State Government Information: Policies and Sources","authors":"Charles R. McClure","doi":"10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of government information : an international review of policy, issues and resources","volume":"30 5","pages":"Pages 781-784"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89993843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-11-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2004.08.001
Charles D. Bernholz
{"title":"Increasing the effectiveness of the international court of justice: proceedings of the ICJ/UNITAR colloquium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the court","authors":"Charles D. Bernholz","doi":"10.1016/j.jgi.2004.08.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgi.2004.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of government information : an international review of policy, issues and resources","volume":"30 5","pages":"Pages 763-765"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jgi.2004.08.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91589174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01Epub Date: 2004-06-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jgi.2004.02.004
Mardi Mahaffy (Reference and Research Services Librarian)
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Pub Date : 2004-01-01DOI: 10.1016/J.JGI.2004.03.001
Marsha L. Selmer
{"title":"Historical Atlas of Central America: Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli. John V. Cotter, Cartographer. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c2003. xiii, 321 pp. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-8061-3037-7","authors":"Marsha L. Selmer","doi":"10.1016/J.JGI.2004.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JGI.2004.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of government information : an international review of policy, issues and resources","volume":"30 1","pages":"535-536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/J.JGI.2004.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54471136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}