Scientific Journal to Authors: Publish in Wikipedia or Perish...
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Saved by 18 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-12-19
- Lspiro on 2009-02-09 - Tags wikipedia , publishing
- Mbogle on 2009-01-15 - Tags wikipedia , readwriteweb , research , publications , newmedia
- Whaallen on 2009-01-07 - Tags wikipedia , article
- Takuya514 on 2009-01-03 - Tags EnglishWeb
- Transtracker on 2008-12-26 - Tags science2.0 , collaboration
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Every day, hundreds of articles appear in academic journals and very little of this information is available to the public. Now, RNA Biology has decided to ask every author who submits an article to a newly created section of the journal about families of RNA molecules to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes the work. As Nature reports, this is the first time an academic journal has forced its authors to disseminate information this way. The initiative is a collaboration between the journal and the RNA family database (Rfam) consortium led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
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As far as we are aware, this is indeed the first time an academic journal has created this kind of explicit link between the academic peer-review process and the Wikipedia. The relationship between academia and the Wikipedia has always been an uneasy one, and it will be interesting to see how the academic community is going to react to this experiment.
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