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James Currall

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010803952

The papers in this volume look at security from a variety of viewpoints. Behind all the papers is the idea that security is important and that security can and should be improved. The papers ask some fairly fundamental questions and provide considerable food for thought. In this paper I am looking at the landscape and making an assumption that a change in culture as a result of better understanding of technology will result from increasing familiarity with technology and its limitations.

Andrew Cormack

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010804069

Failures of security rarely touch users and it is easy to dismiss the subject as a purely technical one. With the increasing reliance on computers for business critical systems, and in the light of the fragility of trust online reliability is becoming an increasingly important issue. Information Assurance (IA) is a method for achieving reliability in computer systems, which has been developed out of traditional risk management concepts. For the consistency of behaviour IA requires there needs to be a security culture among users, a shared set of beliefs, values and behaviour.This paper discusses the nature of such a security culture and how it may be created.

Andrew Cox; Sarah Connolly; James Currall

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010803961

This paper examines three approaches to increasing awareness in an academic setting: a discussion session, a checklist and a web based tutorial. All three are found to be effective in raising motivation and understanding of security because they present the issues in an accessible, interesting way. The research for the paper was funded by the JISC Committee for Awareness, Liaison and Training as part of a project on the human and organisational issues associated with network security. http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/calt/

John Harlow

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010803970

The paper discusses the need for a security policy and how one can be drawn up and implemented. It includes a model Information Security Management Policy.

Sally Brock; Sally Justice

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010803989

South Bank University has sought to invest heavily in electronic journals and databases. To gain the best value from these services, three solutions to off‐ campus access are offered, one of which has been designed in‐house. This article outlines South Bank University’s approach to off‐campus access, covering the practicalities of administering the systems used, along with promotion and training.

S.M.Furnell; T.Karweni

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010803998

This paper considers the issue of security in the provision of online distance learning. Security represents an aspect that may not suggest itself as a high priority in an educational environment, but evidence indicates that it is definitely required. The discussion presents an overview of the key security requirements and the main technical elements needed to address them.

Fintan Culwin; Thomas Lancaster

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010804005

Academic institutions are finding they have to operate under a pro‐active anti‐plagiarism policy, where plagiarism is actively sought out as a serious breach of acceptable academic behaviour. This paper considers the reasons that institutions need such a policy and the issues they should be aware of when implementing one.

Alan Robiette

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010804014

Digital certificates promise to provide the next major leap forward in authentication, and are in fact in use today to secure some e‐commerce transactions. The paper describes what digital certificates are, what they can be used for and what the state of this technology is at present; it also discusses the problems hindering wider deployment of certificates and what needs to be done for them to gain wider acceptance.

Bette Brunelle

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010804023

This paper presents a high‐level overview of linking, with a consideration of what can and can not be accomplished with present‐day technology and products. The intended purpose is to help readers make informed decisions about what a full text and linking product mix can bring to your institution.

Valeda Frances Dent; Wendy Hall; Stephen Harris; Jessie Hey; Kirk Martinez

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010804032

Hybrid libraries provide multiple ways to access information in various formats, normally within a common information framework. The eLib project MALIBU (MAnaging the Hybrid LIbrary for the Benefit of Users) focuses on the development of models, both prototypic and theoretic, for management and organisation of the hybrid library. This article describes the agent technology used for the MALIBU prototype search engine that allows for the search and retrieval of information from disparate resources.

Andrew Cox

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010804041

Endeavor Information Systems, now wholly owned subsidiaries of Elsevier Science Inc, are relative newcomers to the Library Management System market with Voyager targeted at academic and research libraries. An impressive customer list (of over 750) includes the Library of Congress, the libraries of Finland, and in the UK the University of Hertfordshire, much of the University of Wales, National Library of Scotland and new customer Cambridge University. A fully functional integrated library system, Voyager can be extended to integrate MARC catalogued bibliographic databases (citation server) and to manage digitisation projects and integrate images with the OPAC (image server). Their latest, standalone product ENCompass seeks to integrate digital material catalogued to any metadata standard. This article is based on an interview with Cindy Edgington Miller, Endeavor’s Director of the Digital Library Division.

Andrew Cox

2001 VINE

doi: 10.1108/03055720010804050

The article, based on an interview with their new MD, describes the market position and strategy of Talis Information Ltd. Talis claim to be market leaders in the combined market for library management systems in academic and public libraries. Some of the Talis library system’s key features are described. As are the company’s attitudes to product development, project work and standards development.