Chapter 14. Searching a Typical Government Site – Mad Cow Disease
Published Online: 29 APR 2002
DOI: 10.1002/0470846607.ch13
Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Book Title
Biosciences on the Internet: A Student's Guide
Additional Information
How to Cite
Dussart, G. (2002) Searching a Typical Government Site – Mad Cow Disease, in Biosciences on the Internet: A Student's Guide, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/0470846607.ch13
Publication History
- Published Online: 29 APR 2002
- Published Print: 28 FEB 2002
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780471498421
Online ISBN: 9780470846605
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- government;
- intergovernmental;
- data;
- bias;
- European;
- Union;
- mining;
- Bovine;
- Spongiform;
- Encephalopathy
Summary
Governmental or intergovernmental sites often provide valuable data, though readers need to be careful about how the data have been interpreted, since governments can bias their interpretations of data. Generally however, such data (as opposed to the interpretations) are reliable. The homepages of the European Union present enormous amounts of data which are well-worth mining. For example, there is excellent, general information on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.