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keeping FE/HE “Legal, Honest and Truthful”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Ralph Weedon
Ralph Weedon
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This article is based on Ralph Weedon's paper to the BIALL Conference in Cork in June 2001, but benefits from revisions made in August 2001 to bring the position closer up-to-date. Ralph Weedon is Project Director, JISC Legal Information Service, University of Strathclyde.
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Abstract

This article aims to give a broad outline of what the JISC Legal Information Service is and why it was set up. In particular it deals with the challenges of the Internet and the new legislation that attempts to regulate it or stimulate its use. The Internet is fast becoming embedded in the FE/HE sector, in teaching and learning, research and administration–ignore it at your peril some might say. Yet there are risks to this, in some cases, enthusiastic rush to embrace all things that utilise the WWW. The relative ease of access, extraction and dissemination on ‘the net’ has tempted some to overlook the legalities. This article summarises briefly the main areas of law under consideration and the potential costs of infringement. It explains that FE/HE is subject to this legislation sometimes in specific ways. It concludes by stressing the need for feedback from the sector including BIALL members in order that the service can improve.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Autumn 2001 , pp. 21 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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