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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 information 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? 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? 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? 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? on the Internet in general interest magazines in books and scholarly journals   7. Faculty at universities do research because? they are interested in a specific idea and want to find out more about it there is a gap in the knowledge of a 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? give their information away for free keep most of their information secret usually charge people money to use the information they do make public   9. In Brian Martin's article "The Politics of Research," he is critical of the fact that research funding is highly unequal across disciplines in universities. Which of the following university disciplines does Martin say are poorly funded? Chemical Engineering Computer Science Philosophy Biotechnology Women's Studies Creative Writing   10. Which of the following does Brian Martin consider failings of modern higher education, especially as it takes place at research universities? knowledge is treated as a commodity, passively accepted and absorbed by student consumers classroom experience is organized around the premise that learning results only from being taught by experts knowledge is divided into narrow disciplinary boxes performance in research takes precedence over commitment to teaching knowledge and learning are divorced from social problems or channeled into professional approaches competition prevails over cooperation