Annotated Bibliography
Hof, S., & Groothuis, M. M. (2011). Innovating government: Normative, policy and technological dimensions of modern government. Berlin: Springer.
The book is directed to policy makers, academics, legislature among others. In the book, the author addressed a wide scope of issues ranging from law, ethics, and information science communications. The book further addresses a variety of eth8ical issues and discipline perspective on prevailing frequent themes like biometrics, privacy, e-democracy, surveillance, identity management and electronic government. The book further analyses the circumstances of possessing adequate qualifications in particular range of knowledge, abilities and skills within professional grounds to perform a research. It further addresses issues on adherence to ethics and standards by researchers, competence for ethical and professional practice while using the information available in the public domain.
Owens, W. A., Dam, K. W., Lin, H., & National Research Council (U.S.). (2009). Technology, policy, law, and ethics regarding U.S. acquisition and use of cyberattack capabilities. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
The book concentrates on the increased dependence on the information and technology by the U.S. military and citizens. The intended audience in of the book is the general public and the main issues addressed by the book are; cyber attack as an instrument of the national policy, U.S. based law and ethics concerning capabilities of cyber attacks, national policy, ethics on the U.S acquisition and use of cyber abilities. The book further expounds on the fundamental characteristics of cyber attack. In addition, the book further addresses both local and international legal structures that apply to cyber attacks and analysis various analogies to various domains of conflict of interest.
Julia Pohle. (2014). UNESCO and INFOethics: Seeking global ethical values in the Information Society. Original Research Article. Telematics and Informatics, Volume 32, Issue 2, pages 381-390
The article provides an overview of the legal and ethical issues required when publishing a journal. The main audience of the journal is the scholars and its main focus is the peer reviewed journals. It lays emphasis on the ethical issues related to access models, relationship with authors and procedures necessary when using the peer reviewed journals in addition to the direction of ethical policies in place to safeguard the interest of the author. In accordance with the author, normal policy can be termed as the continuation of already inexistence policies and the predominant changes that are put in place with the advancement of technologies and increased ease of getting information online.
Lise McLeod, Judith Broady-Preston, Ruth Atkins. (2014). Accessing Humanities Research in a Digital Environment. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 147, Pages 140-146
The journal is addressed to scholars. The main focus of the journal is the co-existence with the law of copyright in the world of publishers in the dissemination of scholarly research. In accordance to the author, technology has obscured the traditional publishing model and created complications for academics as well as, uncertainties regarding access to the published research that arise. The major interest of the author lies on publishing of scholarly research, the main goal being to disseminate knowledge to other people worldwide. Availing research through open access, according to the author is fundamental in circulation of research. The author also addressed development of digital humanities as a potential Open Access way of distributing information that may be largely favored as a publishing model in humanities in general.
Curry, S. (2013). Political, cultural and technological dimensions of open access: an exploration. In Debating Open Access (pp. 54-67). London: British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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The journal lays emphasis on digital technologies that have been created for a whole revolution and targets scholars as the focal audience. Evidently, most of the discussions on the journal focus on technology engineering, electronic format literature and its accessibility, though less concentration has been placed on humanities and literature. Digital humanities i.e. a merge of humanities and computing research has merged with the formation of digital humanities in various institutions of higher learning. The author also addresses considerable advancement in technology that has facilitated evolution of legal and ethical dimensions and access to research material. The question of copyright of authors and their contribution to research that is available in public through electronic means.
