Our textbook, homepage: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/ Sadly, doesn't appear to be updated since 1999.
Marti Hearst is a Professor at UC Berkeley. Her homepage http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/ has links to various excellent courses she has taught there, such as
Andrea LePaugh at Princeton also has a course with many useful resources:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring02/cs435/schedule.html
Picture of Andrea here.
Open Archives Initiative (OAI) homepage:
http://www.openarchives.org/
OAI list archives:
http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/pipermail/oai-general/
Copyrights and the Eldred case decision (copyrights)
by the Supreme Court (google search):
http://www.google.com/search?q=eldred+decision+supreme+court&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
(Results will change with time, of course.)
Rijsbergen's entire book online: http://sherlock.berkeley.edu/IS205/IR_CJVR/ (1979, but still worth reading -- a classic)