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Marcia Gorin, the Documents Librarian at Strozier Library, Florida State University, attempted to replicate Western Washington University's study. She has given me permission to publish her results here. To see an update to the FSU study, click here.
From each of the selected shipping lists
a document was randomly selected. During two weeks in June-July
documents staff searched for the documents on the World Wide Web
using:
*
Catalog
of U.S. Government Publications
*
Govbot
* The home page
of the authoring agency
| 1. Available on the WWW | 39 | 45% (all percentages are rounded) |
| 2. Ordering information only | 1 | 1% |
| 3. Partially Available @ | 1 | 1% |
| 4. Abstract only available | 1 | 1% |
| 5. Not available | 44 | 51% |
| TOTAL | 47 | 55% |
@ 3. Partially available: In the
case of some congressional hearings the written statements of witnesses
are available on the Web, but the hearing transcripts, with interaction
between congresspersons and witnesses (actual questions and answers),
are not.
| AUTHORING AGENCY | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. |
| Agriculture Department | 2 | 4 | |||
| Central Intelligence Agency | 1 | ||||
| Commerce Department | 4 | 2 | |||
| Congress | 19 | 1 | 7 | ||
| Defense Department | 1 | 4 | |||
| Education Department | 2 | ||||
| Energy Department | 1 | ||||
| Environmental Protection Agency | 2 | 1 | |||
| Federal Emergency Management Agency | 3 | ||||
| General Services | 2 | ||||
| Health and Human Services Department | 1 | ||||
| Housing and Urban Development | 1 | ||||
| Interior Department | 1 | ||||
| Justice Department | 2 | ||||
| Judiciary | 4 | ||||
| NASA | 2 | 2 | |||
| National Archives | 4 | 2 | |||
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission | 3 | ||||
| Transportation Department | 2 | 5 | |||
| Treasury Department | 1 | ||||
| TOTAL | 39 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44 |
For more information about this study, contact Marcia Gorin.
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