[Air-L] public/private

Lois Ann Scheidt lscheidt at indiana.edu
Tue Aug 14 10:35:02 PDT 2007


I think the distinction has been made that password protected is not 
publicly accessible...unless everyone who asks gets a password.  Beyond 
that the rules would be different for private spaces.

Lois Ann Scheidt

Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
University, Bloomington IN USA

Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and
IUPUC, Columbus IN USA

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Quoting 'Gail Taylor <gdtaylor at uiuc.edu>:

> In following the discussion, I'm not finding distinctions are being
> made with regard to research that is being conducted in public and
> private spaces on the Internet. Some researchers are conducting
> research on web pages that are publically available and password
> protected. Are you finding that institutions are more tightly
> regulating research that is being conducted on password protected
> pages in comparison to others that are publically accessible? Just
> curious due to a personal interest in the manner in which
> Internet-based processes are being regulated by business entities,
> including academic institutions.
>
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> Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed.
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
> Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student
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> Library & Information Science Research Assistant
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