UNIVERSITY OF RHODE
ISLAND WORLD WIDE WEB POLICY
ORIGINATOR: Vice Provost for Information Services
DATE: November, 2002
POLICY #02-1
PURPOSE: To inform members of the university faculty, students
and staff of the policies for creating and maintaining World Wide Web
pages at the University of Rhode Island.
Introduction
Goals and Missions of University Web and Web
Advisory Committee
Procedures for Amending the Web Policy
Section One: Policies Relating to Web Page
Content
1.1 Rights and
Responsibilities
1.2 Use of Copyrighted or Licensed
Material
1.3 Commercial Use of Web Pages
1.4 Content
1.4.1 Reliability of Content
1.4.2 Accessibility of Content
1.5 Advertising
1.6 Sponsorship Acknowledgement
1.7 Links to External Sites
1.8 Enforcement
1.9 Appellate Process
Section Two: Policies Relating to Official Web
Pages
2.1 Official Web pages
2.2 Responsibility
2.3 Compliance with Policies
2.4 Copyright statement
2.5 Location
2.6 Design
Section Three: Policies Relating to Research,
Instruction and Student Organizations Web Pages
3.1 Web pages relating to
research, instruction and Student Organizations
3.2 Responsibility
3.3 Compliance with Policies
3.4 Use of Copyrighted Material
3.4.1 Copyright for Material Developed at the
URI
3.4.2 Use of Material Copyrighted by
Others
3.4.3 "Fair Use" of Copyrighted
Material
3.5 Location
3.6 Design
Section Four: Policies Relating to Personal
Web Pages
4.1 Personal Web Pages
4.2 Responsibilities
4.3 Compliance with Policies
4.4 Location
4.5 Design
4.6 Departure from the University