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Public access to law and legal information

1998
Having looked at the various actors in the legal information marketplace — the judges, lawyers and those involved in criminal justice — it is important not to forget that the technology which is developing in the legal system also impacts upon the public: the clients of the system.
Philip Leith, Amanda Hoey
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Public Libraries and Access to Legal Information

2019
For various reasons many people do not have easy access to a public law library. Others may be unaware that specialized law libraries exist that are available to members of the general public. For these people, a public library may be the first place they turn when they have a legal question.
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The public's access to health sciences information.

2012
Everyone has to deal with human conditions of disease, poor health, mental and physiological ills, chronic ailments or acute medical emergencies, at times on a very personal basis. One's own health problems or those of one's family inevitably bring about the need to seek medical help, to describe and become aware of symptoms as danger signals, to find
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5 Access to Information and Public Participation

2014
This chapter begins by analysing the development of access to information and public participation under international environmental law and more specifically watercourses law. Notably, the Aarhus Convention, officially known as Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters ...
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Ghana's Right to Information Act and public sector information accessibility

IFLA Journal
Over the past five years, numerous nations around the globe, including the United Kingdom (UK) and India, have initiated legislative initiatives aimed at formally creating and enforcing a fundamental entitlement for their citizenry, the right to information and public sector information accessibility.
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Edward Brenya, Godfred Badu Mills, Dennis Apau   +3 more
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Reducing barriers to access via public information infrastructure:

2003
Much contemporary discussion concerning information technology policy focuses on concerns about a growing disparity or “digital divide” between users and nonusers of new information technologies, and the differential rate of adoption of information technology along socioeconomic lines. The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Youtie, J., Shapira, P., Laudeman, G.
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Public Access to Government-Held Information

Journal of Law and Society, 1989
Patrick Birkinshaw, Norman Marsh, Richard A. Chapman, Michael Hurst   +3 more
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Modeling interventions to improve access to public health information.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2004
In a Robert Wood Johnson funded project, we established a model-based means for automatically analyzing and representing grey literature that reports on public health (PH) interventions. We summarize the development of an intervention model for public health documents and provide a project update on the implementation of natural language technology to ...
Elizabeth D, Liddy, Anne M, Turner, Jana, Bradley   +2 more
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Public access to government information

Government Publications Review, 1982
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Communicating public access to Government information

Government Information Quarterly, 1984
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