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Essay on Do Research And Society's Findingsspeak For Themselves
The need for controls on the spreading of uncategorized information and some forms of technical data are not new. United States has always made conscious efforts to control the unclassified and official information over the past many years. Even George Washington faced a number of problems in order to protect it. The controversy between the two sides, over whether to allow dissemination of information, or not to allow information disclosure will continue to wage.
Information society is a crucial part of the knowledge-based economy as it helps to carry out the necessary function of directing flow of information and knowledge to all those entities that have productive information investment opportunities, and thus rely on this information to take decision.
If the information and knowledge system does not carry out this role well, then the society and economy will be unable to function efficiently and subsequently human and intellect growth will be hindered. A crucial obstruction to the efficient performance of the information system is asymmetric information that is to say that a condition in which one party to has less accurate information as compared to the other party.
Furthermore, it comes as no surprise that most of the users of research papers like free content. Many of the researches companies and publication houses who are starters in the business, the most important thing for them is to draw people to their company. In words of Patrick Spain, chairman of HighBeam Research Inc. that “If there's no traffic, there's no money, hence in order to get customers, one has to provide content for free.” Therefore many companies entice customers to subscribe to their fee-based researches through free content.
However, the concentration on free content should not be interpreted as implying that the future for paid content is unpromising. According to a survey conducted in 2005 by Jupiter Research, users spent $3.8 billion on paid content...............
