Free Government Information

April 3, 2013.

Librarians and information advocates Jim A. Jacobs (UCSD) and James R. Jacobs (Stanford University) talk about their organization, Free Government Information and their efforts to raise all Congressional, Executive & Judicial Branch information, publications and data, including current fee-based services, to the level of federally funded scientific information, and the publication of all government information as Open Access.

49:15 minutes.

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2 comments:

Thomas Hill said...

To access the current article in DLib Magazine mentioned in the interview see: http://dlib.org/dlib/march13/jacobs/03jacobs.html

Thomas Hill said...

An interest article on the Federal Government's new open data policy, with commentary by Jim Jacobs: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/05/oa/what-governmental-big-data-may-mean-for-libraries/