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The emergence of Electronic Democracy as an auxiliary to representational democracy

Description: Electronic democracy as a system is defined, and the ways in which it may affect current systems of government is addressed. Electronic democracy`s achievements thus far in the United States at the community level are surveyed, and prospects for its expansion to state, national, and international systems are summarized. Central problems of electronic democracy are described, and its feasibility assessed (including safeguards against, and vulnerabilities to sabotage and abuse); the ways in which… more
Date: June 1, 1994
Creator: Noel, R. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Push technology at Argonne National Laboratory.

Description: Selective dissemination of information (SDI) services, also referred to as current awareness searches, are usually provided by periodically running computer programs (personal profiles) against a cumulative database or databases. This concept of pushing relevant content to users has long been integral to librarianship. Librarians traditionally turned to information companies to implement these searches for their users in business, academia, and the science community. This paper describes how a … more
Date: April 6, 1999
Creator: Noel, R. E. & Woell, Y. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An in-house alternative to traditional SDI services at Argonne National Laboratory

Description: Selective Dissemination of Information (SDIs) are based on automated, well-defined programs that regularly produce precise, relevant bibliographic information. Librarians have typically turned to information vendors such as Dialog or STN international to design and implement these searches for their users in business, academia, and the science community. Because Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) purchases the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Current Contents tapes (all subject areas e… more
Date: February 20, 1997
Creator: Noel, R.E. & Dominiak, R.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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