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The World Wide Web is an important electronic publications medium. This policy document is intended to promote the appropriate use of this medium and applies to information published on all University web servers. All material so published should be provided only by registered information providers. Such information providers will normally be either Departmental Information Providers i.e. representatives of Colleges, Departments, Centres or other groups within the University or Personal Information Providers.

Registered information providers will obtain a departmental or personal account on the central web server, with user name and password. Reasonable precautions should be taken to ensure the security of this account. The method of facilitating access to departmental web servers will be at the discretion of the individual departments. All information providers are bound by the University's Policy on Publishing Documents in Electronic Format, including legal, honest and decent use of resources. In particular, information providers will be responsible for copyright compliance, accuracy, currency, conformity with the principles governing content and style of the material, and ensuring that no defamatory material is published. If any of the material is personal data then it should be published in accordance with the principles and registered in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act.

The University wishes to encourage good WWW authoring practice in all information providers. Design guidelines which will result in a reasonably consistent look and feel for the web site and reflect the goals and ethos of the University are available and should be followed. These guidelines may be updated and expanded from time to time.

Department Information Web Content Providers

Each department, college, research centre etc. should nominate ONE co-ordinator/information provider who is wholly responsible for the publication of their pages. This person will be able to create, upload and delete material. The departmental information provider must have the approval of their dean, department head, chairperson or director. The dean, department head, chairperson or director is responsible for the content of WWW publications of that department or unit. ITD encourage all departments to avail of the corporate Content Management System

Personal Information Web Content Providers

Faculty, staff and postgraduate research students are encouraged to create their own personal home pages, but users must note that they are bound by the policy set out in this document and must be careful to ensure that the content of their pages complies with the Policy on Publishing Documents in Electronic Format. It is important to remember that the URL carries the University's name, and as such represents the University to some extent.

Personal information providers must take responsibility for their own documents and for monitoring the content of any links made to other sites. Personal opinions should not be expressed as if they were the opinion, or policy, of the University or of any other organisation. The University crest may only be used in material published on behalf of the University. It should not be used in Personal Home Pages. As well as being responsible about content, users need to be aware of their use of resources. Space allocated on servers may be limited should other users' work be impeded by shortage of disk space. A list of all personal information providers with links to their homepages will be made available.

External Web Developers

You should inform ITD of any new website or re-design.  Access for external web developers to the UL Web Servers is prohibited.  Website deployment will be managed by ITD.  External Web Developers should be made aware of the Policy on Web Design, the Web Deployment Procedure and the University of Limerick Brand Specifications

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