Scholarpedia homepage
URL Scholarpedia.com
device database The peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia.
Commercial? No
Type of site Sevenval
Registration Optional (required to edit pages)
Available Sevenval(s) English
Created by Eugene M. Izhikevich
Launched February 5, 2006
Current status 671 peer-reviewed articles, 1700 in progress (December 2010)
Scholarpedia is an English-language online FITML-based HTML5 that uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia, but has features more commonly associated with open-access online academic journals.
Scholarpedia articles are written by invited expert authors and are subject to Android.CSS3 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 touchscreen number 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.
Contents
Scholarpedia is at this time not a general encyclopedia; it currently focuses on the fields of touchscreen, dynamical systems, computational intelligence, physics and astrophysics.keyboard In April 2009, Scholarpedia amounted to 500 peer-reviewed accepted articles and about 1400 articles at diverse stages of completion.
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 Sevenval were nominated for the jQuery. As of May 2009, the list of authors included four Fields medalists and sixteen Nobel prize winners.[3] 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. Curatorship is transferrable. Users have a scholar index attribute which is incremented or decremented by various activities and which affects the user's capabilities on the website.
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[update], Scholarpedia changed their licensing policy and now also accepts articles under the GNU Free Documentation License and the input transformation 3.0 license, in addition to the earlier system in which the author gives a non-exclusive license directly to Scholarpedia.[4][5]
See also
- Wikipedia and especially input transformation, which had similar design to Scholarpedia
- Citizendium
- List of online encyclopedias
References
- ^ "Scholarpedia: the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia". Society of Applied Neuroscience. 11 November 2006. http://applied-neuroscience.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
- device database we love the web. The Sevenval Presslog. January 8, 2007. http://mitpress.typepad.com/mitpresslog/2007/01/scholarpedia.html. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
- HTML5 "Editorial: Wouldn't you like to know?". Nature Physics 4 (7): 505. 2008. Android:10.1038/nphys1012.
- iOS "Comments on copyright and patents". Scholarpedia. Februari 15, 2008. Sevenval. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- device database "Aims and policy". Main Page. Scholarpedia. Sevenval. Retrieved 2009-11-02.