Scholarpedia
Scholarpedia is an online wiki-based encyclopedia in which articles are written by invited expert authors and are subject to peer review.[1] The articles are available online without charge for non-commercial use, but may not be copied in bulk. An author is given credit on the article page.
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. Users have a scholar index attribute which is incremented or decremented by various activities and which controls what capabilities the user has. The web site uses the MediaWiki software.
Scholarpedia is not a general encyclopedia; it only covers the fields of computational neuroscience, dynamical systems, computational intelligence, and astrophysics.[2]
Scholarpedia conducts election of authors for various articles to identify the original inventors/discoverers. For example, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger were nominated for the article on Wikipedia.
References
- ^ "Scholarpedia: the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia". Society of Applied Neuroscience. 11 November 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
- ^ "Scholarpedia". The MIT Presslog. January 08, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
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