I think the distinction has been made that password protected is not publicly accessible...unless everyone who asks gets a password. Beyond that the rules would be different for private spaces. Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and IUPUC, Columbus IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com Quoting 'Gail Taylor <gdtaylor@uiuc.edu>:

In following the discussion, I'm not finding distinctions are being made with regard to research that is being conducted in public and private spaces on the Internet. Some researchers are conducting research on web pages that are publically available and password protected. Are you finding that institutions are more tightly regulating research that is being conducted on password protected pages in comparison to others that are publically accessible? Just curious due to a personal interest in the manner in which Internet-based processes are being regulated by business entities, including academic institutions.

--------------------------------------- Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant Library & Information Science Research Assistant

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