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  Wired Campus: Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki - Chronicle.com 

  http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3064/encyclopedia-britannica-goes-gasp-wiki

  In the Comments Two years ago in my doctorate program I had to buy a $120 dollar book on affordability and the rising cost of higher education. Anyone else see the irony there? Apparently the publisher ... didn’t. --John who is not an expert on anything Recent Posts June 6, 2008 Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the 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. This seems to be a response to the runaway success of the user-edited online reference tool Wikipedia . (See for yourself. Do a Web search on a topic and note whether Wikipedia or Britannica shows up first.) Scholars have been adamantly opposed to Wikipedia citations in academic papers because the authors and s   [More...] [Less...]

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