AUP Resources

The following resources were provided by Colin Work.

JANET Acceptable Use Policy at <URL:http://www.ja.net/documents/use.html>

We should all have read this, but worth re-reading carefully when formulating an AUP.

The Risks Digest at <URL:http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks>

Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems - this covers a wide range of issues. It's quite interesting to trawl the archives and see how issues have developed over the years.

Computers & Academic Freedom Archive at <URL:http://www.eff.org/CAF/cafhome.html>

US bias, but a useful perspective on the issue.

Information Technology and Society at <URL:http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/itsoc/<

A course run at Queens - useful notes and plenty of references from people who actually have time to think about this stuff!

Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at <URL:http://www.ccsr.cms.dmu.ac.uk/

"Addressing the social and ethical impacts of information and communication technologies through research,consultancy and education."

Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties UK at <URL:http://www.cyber-rights.org/>

Amongst other things, a good monitor of relevant news and media items

A Basic Guide to Copyright at <URL:http://www.soton.ac.uk/~sucsweb/regs/copy.html>

A VERY basic introduction, but may be suitable for circulation amongst staff and students

Bird & Bird at <URL:http://twobirds.com/>

A commercial law firm specialising in information technology - site contains some interesting articles on many aspects of Internet related liability - will develop your paranoia.