Center For Information Policy Research

Elizabeth A. Buchanan

 

As an associate professor, Elizabeth researches and teaches in the areas of information and research ethics. She was a 2006-07 Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, designated by the UW System Office of Professional and Instructional Development; is current Chair of the Association of Internet Researchers Ethics Working Group, Co-Director of the International Society of Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT) and Chair of the Wisconsin Library Association Intellectual Freedom Round Table. She recently completed, with Kathrine Henderson, Case Studies in Library and Information Science Ethics (McFarland Press). She was a recent recipient, with Charles Ess, of a National Science Foundation Ethics and Values in Science Grant on Internet Research Ethics ($150,000) and a National Center for E-Social Science Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, and a frequent consultant and speaker on internet-related research ethics. She and Charles Ess founded and edit the new International Journal of Internet Research Ethics.

 

Selected publications include:

 

Buchanan, E. and Britz, J. (Forthcoming). Immersive Information Ethics and the LIS Curriculum. Journal of Information Ethics.


Buchanan, E. (Forthcoming). Discursive Explorations in Information Ethics. APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers.


Buchanan, E. and Ess, C. (Forthcoming). Internet Research Ethics: The Field and its Critical Issues. In the Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, Edited by Herman Tavani and Kenneth Himma.

Buchanan, E. (2006). Deafening Silence: Music and the Emerging Climate of Access and Use. In Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture. Edited by Michael D. Ayers. Peter Lang Press.

 

Lipinski, T. and Buchanan, E. (2006). The Impact of Copyright Law and Other Ownership Mechanisms on the Freedom of  Inquiry: Infringements on the Public Domain. Journal of Information Ethics.

 

Gould, T., Lipinski, T., and Buchanan, E. (2005). Copyright Policies and the Deciphering of Fair Use in the Creation of Reserves at University Libraries. Journal of Academic Librarianship.

 

Buchanan, E.  (Fall 2004). The Internet as Friend or Foe of Intellectual Freedom. International Review of Information Ethics, 2. Available: http://container.zkm.de/ijie/ijie/no002/ijie_002_06_buchanan.pdf

 

Buchanan, E. (2004). Ethics in Library and Information Science: What Are We Teaching? Journal of Information Ethics, 13 (1), 51-60.

 

Buchanan, E. and Campbell, J. (2004). New Threats to Intellectual Freedom: The Loss of the Information Commons through Law and Technology in the United States. In Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World: Theory and Practice. Edited by R. Spinello and H. Tavani. Idea Group

 

Buchanan, E. (2004). Ethical Considerations for the Information Professions. In Readings in Cyberethics. (2nd Edition) . Edited by R.  Spinello and H. Tavani. Jones and Bartlett.

 

Buchanan, E. (Editor). (2003). Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

 

Buchanan, E. (2002). Internet Research Ethics and Institutional Review Board Policy:  New Challenges, New Opportunities. Advances in Library Organization and Management, 19 (85-100).

 

Buchanan, E. (2002). Ethical Issues in Libraries, Museums, and Archives. In Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Legal Issues and Ethical Challenges in the New Information Era. Edited by T. Lipinski. Scarecrow Press.

 

Lipinski, T., Buchanan, E., and Britz, J. (2002). Sticks and Stones and Words that Harm: Liability vs. Responsibility, section 230 and defamatory Speech in Cyberspace. Ethics and Information Technology, 4 (143-158).

 

Buchanan, E. (2001). Ethics and Qualitative Research in Virtual Space. Journal of Information Ethics, Winter 2001, 82-87.

 

Buchanan, E. (1999). An Overview of Information Ethics Issues In a World-Wide Context. Ethics and Information Technology, 1, (4), 193-201.