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Colleagues/

Will Wonders Ever Cease ... [:-)]

/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-gasp-wiki
]

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu

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