information access
Getting needed facts
Information access is the ability to obtain, retrieve, or use information—whether from libraries, databases, the internet, or other sources.
The term often appears in discussions of rights and barriers: who can reach what information, and what obstacles stand in the way.
The new policy improved information access for rural communities.
Restrictions on information access may be technological, economic, legal, or political.
- right to knowLegal access to information
- databasesOrganized electronic information collections
- data privacyProtection of personal information
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- digital librariesOnline collections of texts
library card · internet · universal design · screen readers · assistive technologies · copyright law · fair use · public domain · net neutrality · transparency · closed captioning · thesauri · disclosure · search engines · FOIA · public records · taxonomies · knowledge gap
information accesscensorship
Official content restriction
information control · restricted access · media blackout · suppression · paywalls
information accesssecrecy
Practice of hiding information
concealment · opacity · obfuscation · cover-up · suppression