ABSTRACT
Information policy, a field encompassing both public policy and information science, treats information as both a commodity—adheres to the economic theory of property rights—and a resource to be collected, protected, shared, manipulated, and managed. Although the literature often refers to information policy in the singular, there is no single all-encompassing policy. Rather, information policies tend to address specific issues and, at times, to be fragmented, overlapping, and contradictory.
