While the humble fruit fly may be a summer-time nuisance for many of us, they have been helping the scientific community study the building blocks of life for over a century due to their availability, small size and quick reproduction. The Manchester Fly Facility at Manchester University has a very informative website about the history and current uses of these little guys in science research.
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More Growing Pains as Scientific Publishing Evolves, Reviews of 60 Minutes’ Glioblastoma Story, and Some Discussions of Fair Use
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.