Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Wikipedia + Academia

This article about an aspect of Wikipedia's Public Policy Initiative showed up in this morning's edition of Inside Higher Ed. It seems like a good way to begin changing people from users into collaborators while simultaneously strengthening the quality of the information and citations.

2 comments:

  1. You need to ask the Elsevier people about mentioning Wikipedia in any of their publications. They have a company-wide prohibition!

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  2. Obviously, I'm a bit behind on follow-up. I thought about asking them what they think about open-access publications, but I don't yet know enough to get into a huge discussion.

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