| Name | Scholarpedia |
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| Url | www.scholarpedia.org |
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| Commercial | No |
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| Type | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Language | English |
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| Registration | Optional (required to edit pages) |
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| Author | Eugene M. Izhikevich |
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| Current status | 671 peer-reviewed articles, 1700 in progress (December 2010) |
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| Launch date | February 5, 2006 |
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| Slogan | The free peer-reviewed encyclopedia. |
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Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia 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 peer review.
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 1941-6016). Scholarpedia's citation system includes support for revision numbers.
The project was created in February 2006 by Eugene M. Izhikevich, a researcher at the Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California. Izhikevich is also the editor-in-chief.
Scope and authorship
Scholarpedia is at this time not a general encyclopedia; it currently focuses on the fields of
computational neuroscience,
dynamical systems,
computational intelligence,
physics and
astrophysics. 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 Larry Sanger were nominated for the article on Wikipedia. As of May 2009, the list of authors included four Fields medalists and sixteen Nobel prize winners. 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 and patents
Articles are available online without charge for non-commercial use, but may not be copied in bulk. Authors are credited on the article page.
, Scholarpedia changed their licensing policy and now also accepts articles under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 license, in addition to the earlier system in which the author gives a non-exclusive license directly to Scholarpedia.
See also
Wikipedia and especially Nupedia, which had similar design to Scholarpedia
Citizendium
List of online encyclopedias
References
External links
Scholarpedia
Category:Mathematics websites
Category:MediaWiki websites
Category:Wiki communities
Category:Internet properties established in 2006
Category:Online encyclopedias
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