Abstract
Our notion of invisible colleges has largely shifted to one of virtual communities, as scholars and students have found the Internet to be an indispensable tool for maintaining and cultivating academic culture. Universities have been scrambling to keep up with this swiftly changing technological pace both at the infrastructure level and at the social and administrative level. However, resolution within the global context of two policy issues – access and copyright and intellectual property – will effect the development and deployment of internetworking content, particularly in the educational environment. This article concentrates on these particular policy Issues: access-particularly as related to gender; and copyright and intellectual property, as currently debated in both public policy and academic forums in North America, and their applicability to the higher education community.
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