Standard Five
The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally.

Performance Indicators

1. The information literate student understands many of the ethical, legal and
socio-economic issues surrounding information and information technology.

Outcomes Include:

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Objective:

Demonstrates an understanding that not all information on the Web is free, i.e., some Web-based databases require users to pay a fee or to subscribe in order to retrieve full text or other content.

Demonstrates awareness that the library pays for access to databases, information tools, full-text resources, etc., and may use the Web to deliver them to its clientele.

Describes how the terms of subscriptions or licenses may limit their use to a particular clientele or location.

Describes the differences between the results of a search using a general Web search engine (e.g., Yahoo, Google) and a library-provided tool (e.g., Web-based article index, full-text electronic journal, Web-based library catalog).

Practice:

Students discuss what kinds of things are not available free on the web.

Terminology used by students can demonstrate their understanding of this issue- “web accessible database”
A library value is to provide as much as possible to as many as possible for free.

Discussion on roles of professional associations in providing information to the community.

Some free resources are of high quality.