Re: Wikipedia, Open Access and Cognitive Virology

From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 11:11:29 -0400

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Richard Poynder
<richard.poynder_at_btinternet.com> wrote:
> SH: But Wikipedia's frequent accuracy and usefulness does not (in my view)
> counterbalance the fact that it is frequently unreliable and inaccurate too
> ...
>
> RP: Is that not also a reasonable description of the totality of the
> research corpus today, and a feature of the peer-reviewed literature that
> will become increasingly apparent as more and more of the content published
> in the world's 24,000 scholarly journals becomes OA?

It's a reasonable description of both corpora -- if you ignore the
difference between (say) 50% unreliability and .05% unreliability...
Received on Sun May 16 2010 - 16:22:33 BST