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"Policy Futures in Education is a peer-refereed, international quarterly online-only journal that is futures-oriented and committed to promoting debate in education among university academics, practising policy analysts in government and local government, national and international policy advisors, politicians, members of policy think-tanks and world policy agencies such as the World Bank, OECD and the European Union. The journal has a strong experimental focus and emphasises innovative thinking in education policy and theory from a range of diverse viewpoints."

The Chief Editor is Professor Michael Peters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

PFIE is published 4 times a year and is available at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/

The last issue of 2006, Vol.4 No.4, was on the theme of:

'COPYRIGHT AND PATENTS: ISSUES AND ETHICS FOR EDUCATION' - Guest Edited by Cushla Kapitzke - see http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/4/issue4_4.asp

Contents include:

Cushla Kapitzke. Editorial. Copyrights and Patents: issues and ethics for education, pages 330‑333
Richard M. Stallman. Did You Say ‘Intellectual Property’? It’s a Seductive Mirage, pages 334‑336
Shun-ling Chen. Freedom as in a Self-sustainable Community: the free software movement and its challenge to copyright law, pages 337‑347
John Willinsky. The Properties of Locke’s Common-wealth of Learning, pages 348‑365
Scott Kiel-Chisholm & Brian Fitzgerald. The Rise of Open Access in the Creative, Educational and Science Commons, pages 366‑379
David Rooney, Bernard McKenna & Thomas Keenan. Copyright and Cultural Production: a knowledge and wisdom theory perspective on education policy, pages 380‑395
Ruth Rikowski. A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, pages 396‑409
Shujen Wang. Breaks, Flows, and Other In-between Spaces: rethinking piracy and copyright governance, pages 410‑420
Gordon Chalmers. Aboriginal Knowledges in the Australian Market Place: different issue, same story, pages 421‑430
Cushla Kapitzke. Intellectual Property Rights: governing cultural and educational futures, pages 431‑445

INTERVIEW
Cultural Policy and Copyright: implications for education. A Conversation with Siva Vaidhyanathan, pages 446‑453

BOOK REVIEWS
Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation’s GATS and TRIPS Agreements (Ruth Rikowski) reviewed by Cushla Kapitzke, pages 454‑457
Education, Equality and Human Rights, 2nd Edn (Mike Cole) reviewed by Renee DePalma, pages 457‑458

2. CHANDOS PUBLISHING

I am also the Commissioning Editor for Chandos publishing, Oxford - for the Chandos Series for Library and Information Management - see www.chandospublishing.com

The Series covers a wide range of topics including web design and management, knowledge management, open access, e-learning, digitisation, freedom of information, intellectual property rights, globalisation, wikis, training, information literacy, e-books, classification and cataloguing and searching on the Internet

Hard copies of the Chandos 2007 catalogue are now available. If you would like a copy, let me know.

The cataloguecan also be downloaded from the Chandos website.

If you are interested in writing a book for the Series or know any others that might be interested (either a single authored work or an edited collection), then do contact me at - rikowskigr@aol.com.

Best wishes: Ruth

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