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Nature Physics editorial (July 2008)

Scholarpedia was prominently featured in a Nature Physics editorial (Vol.4 No.7 p.505 July 2008) http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v4/n7/full/nphys1012.html

"The success of Scholarpedia will depend on it becoming an intrinsic part of the academic landscape, just as the arXiv preprint server (a resource with much lower overheads) has."

"Expert authorship and curatorship of free online information are indeed welcome. If scientists embrace Scholarpedia, then perhaps the opportunity to make sure that their own favourite area is well represented in its pages — as well as the possibility of citations — will prove sufficient incentive to the hard-pressed experts."

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