Information Technology: Legal and Ethical Aspects

Research Databases:

Academic Search Premier

LexisNexis Academic

ACM Digital Library

Business Source Premier

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index

CQ Researcher

Scholarly Sources:

In Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier you can limit the search to scholarly, peer-reviewed sources. You can use articles (not short columns) from these sources to satisfy the requirement of 3 scholarly sources for your paper.

Another way to tell whether a journal is peer-reviewed is to go to Ulrich's to see whether it is marked as being refereed.

Articles (not short columns) from the ACM Digital Library will count as scholarly, as will law reviews found in LexisNexis Academic (although not the laws themselves). Books published by a university press will also count.

Useful Websites:

(Although I make no promises regarding the quality of these sites...)

Website Directories

Librarian's Index to the Internet
Infomine
Open Directory Project
Other directories, search engines, etc.

Government/Law

SOU's Government Resources Page
Supreme Court
U.S. Copyright Office
FindLaw
American Law Sources On-line
United States Legal System: Introduction to the U.S. Legal System and the Nation

Understanding the Federal Courts (from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)

Information/IT Ethics and Issues

ICIE: International Center for Information Ethics
Electronic Frontier Foundation

National Coalition Against Censorship
American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom
Index on Censorship
Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
The Copyright Society of the USA
The Public Domain Enhancement Act (Eric Eldred)
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Ethics in Computing
Open Directory Project: Computer Ethics Online Articles

General Ethics

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics: Decision Making

Ethics Updates

Associations:

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
American Civil Liberties Union

Blogs:

Kairosnews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology & Pedagogy
beSpacific: Postings provide updates on issues of copyright, privacy, censorship, the Patriot Act, ID theft, and freedom of information.
infoAnarchy: A blog in support of copyright reform