Aslib Proceedings: Volume 57 Issue 4

Accountability and accessibility: ensuring the evidence of e‐governance in Australia

Adrian Cunningham, Margaret Phillips

To review the challenges associated with ensuring the capture and preservation of and long‐term access to government records and publications in the digital age and to describe…

The House of Commons Library and the transfer of resources to electronic form for user self‐service, 1979‐2004

Chris Pond

To examine the effects of technical developments on demand for traditional enquiry services in the House of Commons Library.

The Scottish Parliament and e‐democracy

Janet Seaton

To describe the initiatives of the Scottish Parliament in the field of e‐democracy and assess the prospects for future developments.

UK elected representatives and their weblogs: first impressions

Caroline Auty

To examine the weblogs written by members of UK legislatures and to determine whether such weblogs address commonly cited criticisms of MPs' web sites and serve to bridge the gap…

Poignancy in the US political blogsphere

Richard Rogers

To suggest methods and approaches to the study of relationships between the blogsphere and news, and to show, through a preliminary study, how the blogsphere makes particular…

EDM in the Danish public sector: the FESD project

Charlotte Steinmark

To confirm that the purpose of the FESD project has been to provide a framework contract for the whole public sector covering the purchase of an EDM system, technical and…

Politics and government in the age of the internet

Caroline Auty