Wikipedia-integrated academic publishing

<p>This session discusses how different scholarly publishers have interacted with Wikipedia to combine the rigour of academic peer review processes, with the extreme reach and impact of the encyclopedia.</p><p><br></p><p>Wikipedia is the largest open knowledge project in history. Several academic publishers now have Wikipedia-integrated formats:</p><ul><li>PLOS Genetics</li><li>PLOS Computational Biology</li><li>Gene</li><li>WikiJournal of Medicine</li><li>WikiJournal of Science</li><li>WikiJournal of Humanities</li></ul><p>Wikipedia-integrated OA publishing allows several key advantages:<br></p><ul><li>Fee-free Open Access (diamond/platinum OA)</li><li>Radically transparent versioning and history</li><li>Integration with the most widely read information source</li></ul><p>Articles that have been integrated into Wikipedia are often read >1 million times per annum, vastly increasing reach and impact across wide demographics. They are also frequently translated into multiple languages.<br></p>