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New paper on reclaiming scrubbed information

Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet be Reclaimed? by Susan Nevelow Mart, University of California, Hastings College of the Law: June 13, 2005.

This article will discuss the bases of the public’s right to government information, the types of government information that have been removed from the Internet, whether the rationale, if any, given for the removal was appropriate, and the possibilities for returning the information to the Internet.
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Bill would privatize some USGS data

Congress Seeks to Privatize Some USGS Water Activities by Kris Christen. Chemistry.org, American Chemical Society. Reprinted from Environmental Science & Technology, June 8, 2005.

More of the data collection and analysis work conducted through the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) cooperative water program could be privatized under language in the U.S. House of Representative’s Department of the Interior fiscal year 2006 appropriations bill. Supporters of the privatization language say that it would stop USGS from competing with the private sector, but many environmental managers fear that important data collection efforts would be weakened.
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Chronology of Disappearing Government Information, 1998-2002

This document was compiled by Barbara Miller for ALA/GODORT Education Committee With special assistance of Karrie Peterson and includes data collected through May 8, 2002. Chronology of Disappearing Government Information (May 8, 2002), Compiled by Barbara Miller for ALA/GODORT Education Committee With special assistance of Karrie Peterson. [UPDATE May 7, 2015: I’ve upload a copy […]

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