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News Feed from National Association of ScienceWriters- Breaking up with a literary agent December 6, 2013Joanna Penn discusses the etiquette of severing your ties with a literary agent, and points out the pitfalls that can arise from a messy breakup: "There are stories of acrimonious break-ups that still involve money many years later. Earlier this year, Harper Lee sued her agent for depriving her of royalties." Penn also links to tips on selecting ag […]cybrarian
- On Katie Couric's HPV vaccine slant December 5, 2013She may be the nation's best-known TV newswoman, but Katie Couric's episode Wednesday on the HPV vaccine is being attacked for an anti-vaccine bias. Here's Slate's Amanda Marcotte: "Couric spent a half-hour of her show drumming up fears that the vaccine will make you very ill or even kill you." At Forbes, Matthew Herper dissects […]cybrarian
- Matthew Bettelheim: Sardis and Stamm December 4, 2013Matthew Bettelheim teamed up with illustrator Nicole M. Wong to write a children’s book about the Lange’s metalmark butterfly, an endangered species found only in one California wildlife refuge. In 1999, the peak butterfly count in a single day totaled 2,342; in 2012, the daily count peaked at 32. Writing the book in verse proved challenging, Bettelheim says […]llamberg
- A worsening climate for FOIA requests December 4, 2013President Obama's 2009 transparency pledge hasn't translated into better responses to Freedom of Information Act requests. In fact, it's getting worse, writes David Cay Johnston, president of Investigative Reporters and Editors: "Federal agencies routinely flout the 1966 Freedom of Information Act, the so-called Open Government Act of 200 […]cybrarian
- Revisiting that open access "sting" December 2, 2013John Bohannon talks to the Scholarly Kitchen about his Science magazine investigation of open access journals and responds to criticism about his study's methods: "The 304 publishers that I probed in this investigation were not a small sample of the population of fee-charging open access publishers, but rather the complete set," he said. […]cybrarian
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