It's usually pretty interesting stuff, because it's meant to be, and some of it can be useful to a researcher. The government posts a large volume of information , some statistical, some educational or informative. The results of government-funded studies are increasingly disseminated via the Web as well as in print, and these are often a great source for research material. The National Park Service, Library of Congress and many other government agencies are using the Web both to fulfill the functions for which they were formed and to promote their agencies' work. D.C. This information is comparable in scope and reliability to the information you'd get at a library.
Nonprofit organizations provide information relevant to their key issues .
Nonprofits were slower than commercial ventures in upgrading technology and therefore slower to come online with information, but now there's a lot of good material being posted. Full-text versions of works whose copyright has expired are being digitized and posted to the Web for public use by some libraries and academic institutions, and many are available online. Many of these are fiction, poetry, drama. They're not in the same position as an investment company who can author and publish some free information about investing techniques and then make money by selling you a mutual fund. These book publishers are in the business of selling the information they write or compile and they're not about to give it away by posting it on the Web.