Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Wikis just got Scholarly

Looking remarkably like the much scorned (just try to cite it in a paper) Wikipedia, is a new wiki called Scholarpedia. It is a free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.

That's right. Scholarly. Written by experts in the field AND THEN anonymously peer reviewed!

Currently, Scholarpedia hosts Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, Encyclopedia of Computational Intelligence and Encyclopedia of Astrophysics. Eventually, these will be published in print form, but they will still be available free on the web & will be updated online.