Computers and Academic Freedom Archive

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Hypertext Documents

• Frequently Asked Questions about Computers and Academic Freedom
• Information about the CMU Newsgroup ban (from CMU)
• "Sex, Censorship, and the Internet"
• "The Application of Library Policy to Computers" (CFP '94)
• Civil Liberty Index -- selected "newsy" netnews articles related to civil liberties.
• Banned and Challenged Academic Computer Material 1992
• Banned and Challenged Academic Computer Material 1991
• CAF-News for the week of January 9, 1994
• Pointers to some legal resources

Services

• Frequently Asked Questions about Computers and Academic Freedom
• Full-text search of the archive
• What's New in the archive? (e.g. 1 day 2 hours ago)
• Newsgroups (select to read on your local news server):
  • "CAF-Talk", alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk -- a free forum
  • "CAF-News", alt.comp.acad-freedom.news -- selected articles from CAF-Talk
• Civil Liberty Index -- selected "newsy" netnews articles related to civil liberties.

About

• The CAF newsgroups and mailing lists
• The CAF Archive

Papers

• The Application of Library Policy to Computers (CFP '94)
• CAF-News for the week of January 9, 1994 (in hypertext format)
• Content: The Academic Freedom Model, a paper from Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '93 about freedom of expression on academic computers.
• Draft Statement on Computers and Academic Freedom, an attempt to codify the application of academic freedom to academic computers. It covers policy formulation, due process, privacy, and freedom of expression. Critiques of the statement are also available.
• Academic Computer Material Banned/Challenged in 1992

CAF Archives and Subarchives

• Sample computer policies (with many critiques) (Also see the FAQs on which policies are best and how to create a policy.)
• Library policy
• Law
• Statements
• General academic freedom statements
• The CAF-News Archive (Also see the archive of CAF-News in hypertex format, abstracts of the newer issues of CAF-News and the abstracts of the older issues of CAF-News.)
• The alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk (CAF-Talk) archive
• About some specific cases
• General information
• Bibliography
• Administration of this archive

Other Archives

• American Civil Liberties Union Archive
• General civil liberties
• Civics information
• EFF's WWW server

Misc

• A sample of CAF-News articles where a library policy seemed helpful.