Nowadays, using electronic search engines has replaced visiting libraries for information allowing in-print, out of print and orphan works to be conjured up from cyberspace for ready perusal. Such “allowed” borrowing of content on the internet has created a whole…

The recent controversies surrounding Amazon’s removal of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ from Kindle readers , the BBC’s proposal to encrypt Freeview High Definition (HD) content and Microsoft’s permanent ban on Xbox Live users who have modified or ‘chipped’ their consoles have…

Research thrives – indeed can hardly do without – data. It is the raw information upon which better understanding, and better knowledge is based.  Indeed one whole assumption underpinning some visions of Electronic Government – such as Wiki-Gov – is…

Various actors, including the European Parliament, press for labelling of products with a nanotechnology component. A few regulatory agencies or advisers are prepared to move in this direction. In deliberative exercises on nanotechnology, people in their roles as citizens and…

Over the past decades, social sciences have gradually learned to use quantitative methods and computational tools. According to the emerging paradigm of  so called “computational social science” (CSS), the study of social phenomena is more and more often identified with…

China’s rapid economic transformation over the last 3 decades has been remarkable both in terms of its speed and scale. As the Economist magazine reported recently, ‘In China each person now produces four times as much as in the early…

As part of a wider study of law school websites, this article examines the nature of the material available on law school websites. Whilst recognising that official law school websites are only one source of information for the various audiences…

E-education plays an important role in improving access to knowledge for the present and the next generation society. New and emerging technologies give the possibility to educators to reach individuals and communities in numbers and in manners that were in…