[Sigifp-l] New Issue of Government Information Quarterly

[John Bertot]

The editors (see below) of _Government Information Quarterly:  An
International Journal of Information and Technology Management, Policies,
and Practices_ are pleased to announce the release of Volume 23, number 2
(2006). The issue contains articles and reviews related to e-government,
government documents, and information policies and practices.  Issue 2
contents include:


ARTICLES/EDITORIALS

User-centered e-government: Challenges and benefits for government Web sites
. EDITORIAL Pages 163-168 John Carlo Bertot and Paul T. Jaeger

Assessing Section 508 compliance on federal e-government Web sites: A
multi-method, user-centered evaluation of accessibility for persons with
disabilities  . ARTICLE Pages 169-190 Paul T. Jaeger

Scenario evaluation of municipal Web sites: Development and use of an
expert-focused evaluation tool  . ARTICLE Pages 191-206 Menno de Jong and
Leo Lentz

E-Government: Evolving relationship of citizens and government, domestic,
and international development  . ARTICLE Pages 207-235 Donna Evans and David
C. Yen

E-government maturity models: Extension of the Layne and Lee model  .
ARTICLE Pages 236-248 Kim Viborg Andersen and Helle Zinner Henriksen

Information Resource Managers and E-government Effectiveness: A Survey of
Texas State Agencies  . ARTICLE Pages 249-266 Christopher G. Reddick

Bridging the gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: A holistic look at information
poverty and the region's digital divide  . ARTICLE Pages 267-280 Meseret D.
Gebremichael and Jason W. Jackson

The opinion of Belgian government communication professionals on public
communication about policy intentions: Pros/cons and conditions  . ARTICLE
Pages 281-292 Dave Gelders, Rozane De Cock, Keith Roe and Peter Neijens

Re-conceptualizing statistical abstracts in the 21st century: An empirical
study of sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics  . ARTICLE Pages 293-308
Carol A. Hert and Lydia Eato Harris

The Missing Court of Claims Report: Is Letitia Humphreys Court of Claims
Report 42?  . ARTICLE Pages 309-324 Charles D. Bernholz and William R.
Ellis, Jr.


REVIEWS

Egov: The Official Web Site of the President's E-Government Initiative,
Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC (2005) http://egov.gov
(accessed September 28, 2005).  . BOOK REVIEW Pages 325-326 Julie Linden

United States Department of Transportation homepage  . BOOK REVIEW Pages
327-328 Claudene Sproles

Challenges to Globalization: Analyzing the Economics  . BOOK REVIEW Pages
328-329 Suzanne L. Holcombe

B. Chapman, Researching National Security and Intelligence Policy, CQ Press,
Washington, D.C. (2004) ISBN 1-56802-855-5 xxiii, 452 pp. $125 USD (cloth).
. BOOK REVIEW Pages 330-331 Robert J. Weiner, Jr.

L.L. Smith, D.C. Barkley, D.D. Cornwell, E.W. Johnson and J.L. Malcomb,
Tapping State Government Information Sources, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT
(2003) ISBN 1-57356-387-0 xiii, 477 pp., ill. 26 cm. $65.00 USD (Cloth).  .
BOOK REVIEW Pages 331-333 Mark C. Scott

USA Trade Online  . BOOK REVIEW
Pages 333-337
Mae N. Schreiber

Secrecy in the Bush Administration. Downloaded September 14, 2004. Prepared
for Representative Henry A. Waxman by the Minority Staff, U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Government Reform, Special Investigations
Division http://democrats.reform.house.gov/features/secrecy_report/index.asp
(last visited November 26, 2005).  . BOOK REVIEW Pages 338-339 Valerie D.
Glenn

CQ's Politics in America 2006, 13th edition. Jackie Koszczuk and H. Amy
Stern (Editors). Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006. xxii, 1218 pp. ISBN
1-933116-10-2 $115.00 (cloth); ISBN 1-933116-09-9 $75.00 (paper).CQ's
Politics in America: Online Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006. Pricing
available by request and at:
http://www.cqpress.com/product/Politics-in-America-2006.html#description.  .
BOOK REVIEW Pages 339-341 Charles D. Bernholz


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Government Information Quarterly is a quarterly publication of Elsevier
Science.  The journal explores such topics as information and
telecommunications policy; access to and use of government information;
information technology management, implementation, planning, and evaluation;
information services development, management, and provision in a distributed
networked environment; e-commerce in governments; service quality
assessment, benchmarking, and performance measurement; and, governing and
governance in a networked environment.  GIQ articles are available through
ScienceDirect at http://www.sciencedirect.com.

Additional information regarding the journal and journal submissions is
available at:  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/govinf.

John Carlo Bertot <jbertot at fsu.edu>, College of Information, Florida State
University serves as the journal editor.

Charles R. McClure <cmcclure at lis.fsu.edu>, College of Information, Florida
State University serves as the journal associate editor.

John A. Shuler <alfred at uic.edu>, Documents, Maps, Microforms, & Curriculum
Department, Univeristy of Illinois Chicago serves as journal assistant
editor.

Aimee C. Quinn <aquinn at uic.edu>, Government Documents Department, Univeristy
of Illinois Chicago serves as journal assistant editor. 

Suzanne Holcombe <suzanne.holcombe at okstate.edu>, Documents Department,
Oklahoma State University serves as reviews editor.


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