Applying informetric methods to empirically assess the authoritativeness of Health Canada electronic documents |
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| Institution: | 1. Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, QLD, Australia;2. Agri-Science Queensland, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Brisbane 4102, QLD, Australia;3. Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC), The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, QLD, Australia;1. Centre for Integrated Energy Research and Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, Energy Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;2. Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. ?w. Marcin 78, 61-809 Poznań, Poland;3. Department of Sociology and Communications, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK;4. Nicolaus Copernicus University, Institute of Sociology, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 1a, 87-100 Toruń, Poland;1. University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Department of Animal Science, Lincoln, NE, 68583, USA;2. Virginia Tech, Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA;3. Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA |
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| Abstract: | Government publications have long been considered authoritative sources of information regardless of the format electronic via the World Wide Web (WWW) or paper] they are published in and with little consideration as to how they are researched, written, and published. Given the greater accessibility that the WWW provides the public to this very important source of information on a wide variety of subjects, assessing authoritativeness becomes a bigger and more difficult issue. This preliminary study applies informetric methods, specifically citation analysis, to assess whether the blind trust afforded government publications is appropriate in an important area of public policy that, particularly in Canada, is seen almost as a natural right of citizenship, public health care. The results of this study show that this trust is not misplaced as these publications are well researched and, with or without references, are used without discrimination. |
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