More Growing Pains as Scientific Publishing Evolves, Reviews of 60 Minutes’ Glioblastoma Story, and Some Discussions of Fair Use

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Library Staff

all in this edition on Blog Buzz.

An editor tweeted last week that he was quitting Scientific Reports an NPG open access journal over a service which allows authors to pay for expedited peer review by a third party corporation. Science News covers the story here, and has updated it with a link to a copy of a letter from board members of Scientific Reports to NPG raising some questions and concerns.

On Forbes, Dave Kroll discusses What ’60 Minutes’ Got Right and Wrong on Duke’s Polio Virus Trial Against Glioblastoma. Shara Yurkiewicz also weighed in on the story on MedPage today.

For those of you who follow discussions of copyright and fair use, Sherwin Siy’s post Fair Use vs. ‘Protected Uses’: Protection Only for the Powerful? at Public Knowledge weighs in on the recent use of GIFs from copyrighted works in a Press Release from the House Judiciary Commitee.

At the end of February, Nancy Sims (aka @CopyrightLibn) wrote about A Point of Certainty in Fair Use, which is especially important for classroom educators.