Scholarpedia

Scholarpedia
Web address scholarpedia.org
Slogan The peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia
Commercial? No
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia
Registration Optional (required to edit pages)
Available in English
Content license
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0[1]
Created by Eugene M. Izhikevich
Launched February 5, 2006 (2006-02-05)
Alexa rank
 146,374 (February 2013)[2]
Current status 671 peer-reviewed articles, 1700 in progress (December 2010)

Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia with features commonly associated with open-access online academic journals, which aims to have quality content.

Scholarpedia articles are written by invited expert authors and are subject to peer review.[3] Scholarpedia lists the real names and affiliations of all authors, curators and editors involved in an article: however, the peer review process (which can suggest changes or additions, and has to be satisfied before an article can appear) is anonymous. Scholarpedia articles are stored in an online repository, and can be cited as conventional journal articles (Scholarpedia has the ISSN number ISSN 1941-6016). Scholarpedia's citation system includes support for revision numbers.

The project was created in February 2006 by Eugene M. Izhikevich, while he was a researcher at the Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California. Izhikevich is also the encyclopedia's editor-in-chief.

Scope

Scholarpedia main page

Scholarpedia content is grouped into separate "encyclopedias". Currently seven of these are described as "focal areas": Astrophysics, Celestial mechanics, Computational neuroscience, Computational intelligence, Dynamical systems, Physics and Touch - but a further 12 include such diverse area such as Play Science[4] and Models of brain disorders[5][6] and by February 2015, Scholarpedia had 2,342 content pages.[7]

Authorship

To ensure that the articles are written by experts, authors of the various articles in Scholarpedia are either invited by the editor-in-chief or other curators, or selected by a public election. For example, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger were nominated for the article on Wikipedia.[8] As of May 2009, the list of authors included four Fields medalists and sixteen Nobel prize winners.[9] Registered users must provide their full real name, and a recognised affiliation to an academic institution. Only registered users can edit an article, and those edits are subject to approval by the curator of the article, who is typically the author.[10] Curatorship is transferrable. Users have a curator index attribute which is incremented or decremented by various activities and which affects the user's capabilities on the website.

After October 20, 2011, anyone can propose an article for Scholarpedia, but articles must be sponsored by Editors or Curators before the article can be published.[11]

Copyright

Articles are available online without charge for non-commercial use, but may not be copied in bulk. Authors are credited on the article page.

As of January 2008, Scholarpedia changed their licensing policy and now also accepts articles under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, in addition to the earlier system in which the author gives a non-exclusive license directly to Scholarpedia.[12][13]

Software

Scholarpedia uses the same wiki engine as Wikipedia, MediaWiki, with modifications to support voting on revisions. The software's development is done privately.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Scholarpedia:Terms of use". Scholarpedia. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  2. ↑ "Scholarpedia.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
  3. ↑ "Scholarpedia: the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia". Society of Applied Neuroscience. 2006-11-11. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
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  6. ↑ "Scholarpedia". The MIT Presslog. 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
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  8. ↑ "User:Eugene M. Izhikevich/Proposed/Wikipedia". Scholarpedia. 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  9. ↑ "Editorial: Wouldn't you like to know?". Nature Physics 4 (7): 505. 2008. doi:10.1038/nphys1012.
  10. ↑ "Help:Frequently Asked Questions". Scholarpedia. sec. How is an article maintained?. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  11. ↑ "Scholarpedia - Scholarpedia". www.scholarpedia.org. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  12. ↑ "Talk:Scholarpedia". Scholarpedia. 2008-02-15. sec. Comments on copyright and patents. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  13. ↑ "Scholarpedia:Terms of Use". Scholarpedia. 2012-09-08. sec. Scholarpedia's Licenses to You, and Your license to parties other than Scholarpedia. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  14. ↑ "Help:Frequently Asked Questions". Scholarpedia. sec. How can I contribute to the source code?. Retrieved 2012-05-25.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 17, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.