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Byline: bobby pickering
Scholarpedia: pass or fail?
Have we reached another milestone in the evolution of academic publishing? Scholarpedia is the first "free peer-reviewed encyclopedia", a kind of morphing of open access publishing with wiki technology.
Initial reaction may be, not another Wikipedia wannabe!, especially as the ink is barely dry on Larry Sanger's Citizendium manifesto, which he describes as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia. But Scholarpedia could
be very different.
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