Wikipedia. For academics you either love it or you hate it. One of the people on Twitter that I follow alerted me to
a blog post by Frederic Lardinois on
ReadWriteWeb that describes a first for a refereed academic journal. The scientific journal,
RNA Biology, will now require all authors that submit a paper for review to the journal to also submit a summary of the article to Wikipedia. The Wikipedia summary is reviewed as part of the submission; however, once the paper is accepted for publication and the Wikipedia page is posted, anyone in the world can edit the contents of the Wikipedia entry.
I love it! RNA Biology is now feeding original cutting edge research into Wikipedia. That is primary source material – not simply secondary source material. I just love it. How do you feel about it? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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6 comments:
Wow, that's really cool! When do you think Nature will follow suit? Ha...
Nature reported on it:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081216/full/news.2008.1312.html
They'll crack sooner or later ;-)
It is glad to see this blog, it is good that Biography is now online, nice informative blog, Thanks for share this article.
I really like this blog, It's always nice when you can not only be informed, but also get knowledge, from these type of blog, nice entry. Thanks
I completely agree with the above comment, the internet is with a doubt growing into the most important medium of communication across the globe and its due to sites like this that ideas are spreading so quickly.
Wikipedia is and will be the primary source for research. I would say, that I do not know of any other resources for information that is this good and complete.
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