Introductory articles on ethics

This section lists introductory articles on information ethics, mostly written from a moral philosophy perspective.

A brief history of information ethics
Thomas Froehlich's excellent article discussing the background and context of ethics in the (US) LIS profession
The ethics of information provision
A short article defining the spectrum of ethical issues encountered in LIS work
Overview of information ethics
A particularly good overview, putting library ethics in the context of media, ICT and internet ethics
Overview of information ethics
Introduction for those with little prior knowledge of the field
Google search for "information ethics"
Google Scholar search for "information ethics"
Google Book Search search for "information ethics"
Information Ethics Thesaurus
A draft thesaurus and classification scheme

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