Over the past few weeks…

This past Friday, news began circulating that the Obama administration was considering supporting publishers in their appeal of the Georgia State University e-reserves case which had found that electronic reserves were a form of fair use, here is a post from TechDirt. About the news in the case Nancy Simms, Copyright Librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries, wrote What is the government’s interest in copyright? Not that of the public. Kevin Smith, Duke University Scholarly Communications officer also wrote about the case, outlining what he feels the library community needs to know in Law and Politics in the GSU Case.

Cool Tools U blogged about ImpactStory, a new open source tool that allows researchers to track and share data about their output and impact across various  media from  journal articles and data sets to blog posts and YouTube videos.

GSK has joined All Trials pledging to support the campaign and open the information from their drug trails. Here is Ben Goldacher’s post.

Deborah Blum has a post called A Takedown at Retraction Watch on the Knight Science Journalism Tracker explaining the strange case of posts being removed from Retraction Watch by WordPress administrators following claims of plagiarism.

Wondering about tools for evaluating and assessing the quality of published resources? Check out the Grade Project.