New on the net
| Pages | 410-411 |
| Date | 01 June 1998 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045668 |
| Published date | 01 June 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
NEW ON
THE NET
We
list
the
Net
resources
that
have
caught our
eye
in the
last
couple
of
months
as being useful to the
electronic
librarian.
If
there
is a site you
would like
added,
please
e-mail
us
at
tel@learned.co.uk.
Cyberliability
Cyberliability: generic term coined in the late 1990s
for various types of legal liability arising from
busi-
ness use of the Internet and
e-mail
including cyber-
libel,
copyright infringement, breach of confidence,
negligent virus transmission, inadvertent contracts,
computer
hacking,
and so
on.
Of particular relevance
to any company whose employees have access to e-
mail and/or the Internet, and those trading on the
web (e-commerce) or relying on computer networks.
Exposure to cyberliability can be reduced through
technical,
legal, and insurance solutions.
For the first time in the UK, three specialist firms of
international reputation are co-operating to meet the
cyberliability challenge. These are Integralis,
Theodore Goddard, and Nelson Hurst and Marsh.
• http://www.cyberliability.com/
Digital Education Network
The Digital Education Network has a growing list of
hosted Web sites with clients offering courses and
educational services around the world. Apart from
the database of courses one can also search for a
range of other educational service providers includ-
ing student advisors, education agents, accommo-
dation agencies, publishers, examination boards,
funding organisations, and so on. The Network is
sponsored by English Language giants EF.
• http://www.edunet.com/
E-commerce
A useful looking site in the area of e-commerce is
being offered by the University of Ulster's Faculty of
Informatics, 'ecom' is a gateway to electronic com-
merce research resources published on the Internet,
and caters for informatics and business students as
well as companies interested in electronic com-
merce,
Internet intelligence and Internet marketing.
ecom also highlights the electronic commerce
research currently undertaken by the Faculty. Under
the 'ecom Research' menu, is information on the
Faculty's research projects, student dissertations,
selected publications (available online soon), and
information relating to electronic commerce and the
European Union.
In addition to highlighting sites, ecom provides links
to research groups and
centres,
news and resources,
academic journals as well as conferences and work-
shops for these areas, ecom has been designed to
categorise links to important electonic commerce,
Internet intelligence and Internet marketing sites
world-wide and to make these links available to a
wide audience. It is constantly updated with news of
conferences and workshops.
• http://ecom.infm.ulst.ac.uk/
Intelligent Software Agents
Here can be found an impressive array of information
and resources about intelligent information agents,
intentional agents, software agents, softbots, know-
bots,
infobots, and so on. Available on site is
AgentNews,
an electronic newsletter published at the
UMBC Lab for Advanced Information Technology,
and edited by Tim Finin (finin@umbc.edu.) To sub-
410 The Electronic Library, Vol. 16, No. 6, December 1998
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