Are EU policy-makers fighting the right copyright battles?

How are policy makers using evidence? Models of research utilisation and local NHS policy making.

STUDY OBJECTIVE This paper is based on a qualitative study that aimed to identify factors that facilitate or impede evidence-based policy making at a local level in the UK National Health Service (NHS). It considers how models of research utilisation drawn from the social sciences map onto empirical evidence from this study. DESIGN A literature review and case studies of social research proje...

Fighting Fire with Fire: Commercial Piracy and the Role of File Sharing on Copyright Protection Policy for Digital Goods

Digital piracy has become a major issue for the global information goods economy. The threat and the damage caused by piracy are widespread and span the entire range of information goods from music and movies to software. Each year, the industry’s losses to piracy amount to billions of dollars. According to the BSA/IDC 2009 Global Software Piracy Report (BSA/IDC 2009), software piracy caused a ...

Ebola Treatment and Prevention are not the only Battles: Understanding Ebola-related Fear and Stigma

Policy Makers , and the Impact Factor Edward

Some aspects of the “impact factor”, a quantitative measure of journals’ influence on journals in scientific fields, was discussed in the preceding issue of the Croatian Medical Journal by Dr Eugene Garfield, one of its devisers. This factor can be of interest to authors, journal editors, and policy makers, but they should keep in mind the complexity of the determinants of impact factors while ...

Copyright Lawmaking and the Public Choice: From Legislative Battles to Private Ordering