Answer the following Quiz 1 questions by clicking on the appropriate option and pressing the Submit button.

1. Research and knowledge production involves a large commitment of time, effort, and money, therefore it is most often done by individuals associated with large institutions.
True
 False
2. Most of the knowledge produced in the United States is funded by federal, state, or local governments.
True
 False
3. The government is under an obligation to provide access to information it produces because (choose one):
it is mandated by the U.S. Constitution
 the information was produced at taxpayer expense and therefore the government has an obligation to make it available to citizens
 the FBI says so
4. Traditionally the federal government has made the information it produces available to the public through (choose one):
the Library of Congress
 the Internet
 the depository library system
5. Online access to government information is convenient but it also presents problems, chief among them is (choose one):
the inability to guarantee long term preservation of the material
 publishing the material online is difficult
 searching for the information is difficult
6. Research produced by faculty at research universities is most often published (choose one):
on the Internet
 in general interest magazines
 in books and scholarly journals
7. Faculty at universities do research because (check all that apply):
they are interested in a specific idea and want to find out more about it
 there is a gap in the knowledge of the discipline and they want to develop a new theory
 they want to update a specific area of knowledge with new information
8. Corporate laboratories and business research firms also perform research. However, unlike public sector agencies, corporations (check all that apply):
give their information away for free
 keep most of their information secret
 usually charge people money to use the information they do make public

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