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A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters : Article : Nature Genetics
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Nature Genetics 40, 1047 - 1051 (2008)
Published online: 27 August 2008 | doi:10.1038/ng.f.217
A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters
Robert Hoffmann1
Abstract
WikiGenes is the first wiki system to combine the collaborative and largely altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship. In view of the extraordinary success of Wikipedia there remains no doubt about the potential of collaborative publishing, yet its adoption in science has been limited. Here I discuss a dynamic collaborative knowledge base for the life sciences that provides authors with due credit and that can evolve via continual revision and traditional peer review into a rigorous scientific tool.
Averting a Digital Katrina: Sustaining Trust in the Research Infrastructure (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
Trust & scholarly communications
Chronicle Careers: 6/6/2008: Certifying Online Research
Exactly how do we arrive at a judicious assessment of scholarship presented in various forms of new media? How do we acknowledge and reward substantive electronic scholarship that genuinely furthers knowledge in a discipline, while avoiding the awarding of undue credit to less worthy work?
The digital revolution has substantially improved scholarly work, but it has also brought challenges to those of us charged with overseeing our institutions' tenure, promotion, and rewards processes. While several electronic forms compete for legitimacy, the two most prominent are journals published exclusively online, and Web sites devoted to scholarly subjects.
Re:Poste FAQ
Re:Poste is a web service intended to bring academic-level standards of criticism and intellectual integrity to web-based mass media reporting. It accomplishes this by creating a trusted network of academics, experts, and professionals who review stories in the media.
These reviews are to be rigorous applications of the reviewer's knowledge in their areas of expertise. Re:Poste will gather all of these reviews into a single interface and make them available to the general public in the context of the original media article.
Journals May Soon Use Antiplagiarism Software on Their Authors - Chronicle.com
This spring, academic journals may turn the antiplagiarism software that professors have been using against their students on the professors themselves.
CrossRef, a publishing industry association, and the software company iParadigms announced a deal this week to create CrossCheck, an antiplagiarism program for academic journals. The software uses the same technology as iParadigms' Turnitin, the program used by colleges to check student papers for copycat behavior.
The Attention Economy: An Overview - ReadWriteWeb
l"aw of information, stated first by Herbert Simon: the rapid growth of information causes scarcity of attention."
The News Business: Out of Print: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
"Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago."
Thomas Jefferson Wiki - Thomas Jefferson Wiki
Wiki on TJ run by Monticello--limited editorial rights
Wired Campus: Blog vs. Peer Review Update: Interactivity Brings Some Surprises - Chronicle.com
Update on Noah W-F's blog-based peer review
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