Pharmaceutical free trade - will it be fair?

Information Will Be Free

Since the popularity of internet and new communication technologies, the issue of information sharing has become a matter of debate. In digital world, distances are meaningless and Information could be transferred to different parts of the world in few seconds. In this paper we discuss the effect of new technologies on licensed information and copyright law. We take this position that in modern...

Will the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement undermine the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?

The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) contains major concessions to the US pharmaceutical industry that may undermine the egalitarian principles and operation of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and substantially increase the costs of medicinal drugs to Australian consumers. AUSFTA's approach to the PBS excessively emphasises the need to reward manufacturers of "inno...

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Peer Refereeing . . . Will it be Missed ? Alfred

1. Publish essentially as is; the only changes necessary are very simple typographical matters which can be changed by the editor. 2. Publish after author’s minor revision; the referee suggests points which must be changed before the paper meets the standards for publication. 3. Publish only if the author makes major revisions. (Perhaps the paper is much too long or is badly written. The revise...

Tomorrow's library: will it all be infrastructure?

The form in which knowledge is described and encapsulated has a major impact on the design of libraries and the functions performed within the library. Libraries as we known them have been primarily built to store and disseminate knowledge in book format. New technology and the changing needs of knowledge workers, which form important parts of the logocentric, practicentric, and democentric ele...