upcoming symbiosis – Wikipedia and academic publishers
Posted by engelland on January 14th, 2009
The journal RNA Biology requests from authors to create a Wikipedia entry with a link to the article istself. the entry will be peer reviewd along with the original article befor pushed life to Wikipedia. Here is a sample.
publisher’s benefit: Google ranks Wikipedia entries on top of their search results – thus providing excellent publicity to the original article.
Wikipedia’s benefit; those contributinos are actually peer revied – thus providing the kind of authority that Wikipedia entries usually lack.
I anticipate that this will be copied by other publishers very soon: expecting their authors to help promote their work by writing on Wikipedia.