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From: Gerry Mckiernan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 June 2008 22:11
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Subject: [DIGLIB] CHE: Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki
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/Gerry
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wired Campus
June 6, 2008
Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki
Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of
its tightly controlled editing, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced
this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses.
It will allow the *user community* (in the words of the
encyclopedia*s blog) to contribute their own articles, which will be
clearly marked and run alongside the edited reference pieces.
[snip]
At Britannica, *readers and users will also be invited into an online
community where they can work and publish at Britannica*s site under
their own names,* the encyclopedia*s blog explains.
But it*s not a complete free-for-all. The voice of Britannica adds
that the core encyclopedia itself *will continue to be edited
according to the most rigorous standards and will bear the imprimatur
*Britannica Checked* to distinguish it from material on the site
for which Britannica editors are not responsible.*-Josh Fischman.
[
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3064/encyclopedia-britannica-goes-g
asp-wiki
]
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
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