Larry: We could ourselves scope out the many 'open-access' journals in various subject areas, and judiciously select those 'review-type' articles whose content and cognitive accessibility meet CZ's requirements. Some I know permit free use with attribution.
The Public Library of Science says this about its suite of journals: "Everything we publish is freely available online for you to read, download, copy, distribute, and use (with attribution) any way you wish." That means we can even edit the articles as workgroups deem appropriate. We could re-title, edit for easier reading when necessary, add content. Anthony.Sebastian ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Sanger<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Main Citizendium'<mailto:[email protected]> ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:47 PM Subject: [Citizendium-editors] Absorbing other wiki projects into theCitizendium All, I've been overwhelmed with the excellent opportunities thrown our way. One type of opportunity is this: some people have suggested that they will transfer the contents of their professional wiki projects to the Citizendium. There are two wikis for which this is a possibility, and one other content project. Also possible are two published encyclopedias from the 1980s and 90s, now out of print I believe, which certain stakeholders are interested in letting us use. I'm sorry I can't give you the details, but suffice it to say that it's pretty exciting stuff. We can "bootstrap" ourselves very well with new content and, no doubt, the new people that will come with it. So this then leads to a question for you: do you know of floundering academic wiki projects, or projects that people have lost interest in, that have much content that might be appropriate for CZ? If so, can you please invite the principals of those projects to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? Let us use the content; we'll make sure it doesn't go to waste. --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-editors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-editors<https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-editors>
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