Information for trained nurses in remote areas: do electronically networked resources provide an answer?

This paper reports on a research project which examined the potential ofthe Internet, and other networked information resources, to improve access to information fortrained nurses working in remote areas. This paper provides a review of current literature in thefield. It describes the research carried out, presents a summary of the research findings anddiscusses the implications of these findings. The paper concludes that the Internet and networkedresources do have considerable potential to improve access to information for nurses working inremote and rural areas. However, information skills, along with professional guidance, are alsorequired.     

Golden Rule Revisited: Introduction

In this article, the author provides an overview of the "Golden Rule" issue, including a summary of legislative and judicial activity aimed at extending the Golden Rule idea, the opposition of professional associations to such proposals, and activity at the Educational Testing Service to take differential item functioning into account in test construction.     

Whose text is it anyway?

This article was originally given as a talk at the Computers And The Humanities Conference (CATH) in December 1992, and is directed principally at academics in the humanities. It is prompted by anxieties about the stranglehold that copyright problems are having on new electronic opportunities.     

Integrity and the Feminist Teacher

Our popular conception of integrity brings to mind uncompromising figures like Socrates or Sir Thomas More whose steadfast stands on matters of principle we accept and admire. The paper considers the implications of this for two committed feminists, both of whom are teachers. Their pedagogical philosophies are sufficiently different to lead one to charge the other with selling out her feminist principles. But is this a fair assessment? Is there room for compromise within the complex notion of integrity? How might feminist teachers rework the concept to do justice to the complexities involved?