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As an editor, I would like to invite you to write a short entry "%TITLE%" for Gastropod Neuroscience, which is hosted by Scholarpedia - the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia. This project, being a synthesis of philosophies of Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, is ambitious and unique. You can read more about it at http://www.scholarpedia.org. Your article will be peer-reviewed, and upon acceptance, you will become the curator of the whole topic "%TITLE%" in Scholarpedia (see below). | As an editor, I would like to invite you to write a short entry "%TITLE%" for Gastropod Neuroscience, which is hosted by Scholarpedia - the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia. This project, being a synthesis of philosophies of Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, is ambitious and unique. You can read more about it at http://www.scholarpedia.org. Your article will be peer-reviewed, and upon acceptance, you will become the curator of the whole topic "%TITLE%" in Scholarpedia (see below). | ||
| − | Sincerely Yours, Paul S. Katz | + | The goal of Gastropod Neuroscience in Scholarpedia is provide a perpetually up-to-date reference about model gastropod nervous systems, such as Aplysia, Hermissenda, and Tritonia. This can be a starting point for students seeking to learn about these model systems. It will also serve as a reference for generla aspects of Gastropod nervous systems and behavior, such as feeding, development, and learning and memory. |
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| + | You can write your article alone. However, I encourage you to take a co-author, e.g., a colleague, a former student or postdoc, who will become your co-curator. If you want to change the title or have other preferences, please let me know. | ||
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| + | I have created the following account for you in Scholarpedia: Username: %USERNAME% Password: %PASSWORD% To accept this invitation, please click %URL% | ||
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| + | If you cannot write this article within a reasonable period of time, please let us know as soon as possible by clicking %URL%&no=1 In this case, we would highly appreciate your suggesting the names of the best experts to invite to write this article. | ||
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| + | Sincerely Yours, | ||
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| + | Paul S. Katz [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Pkatz] | ||
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| + | Editor of Gastropod Neuroscience in Scholarpedia | ||
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Here is a description of Scholarpedia written by the Editor-in-Chief, Eugene M. Izhikevich [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Izhikevich]: | Here is a description of Scholarpedia written by the Editor-in-Chief, Eugene M. Izhikevich [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Izhikevich]: | ||
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Most articles in Scholarpedia are written by the original authors. For example, Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractals, writes "Fractals" and "Mandelbrot Set". Franz Halberg, who coined the word 'circadian', writes "Chronobiology" and "Circadian Rhythm". Edward Lorenz, the discoverer of phenomenon of chaos, writes "Butterfly Effect". Robert Galambos, the discoverer of sonar in bats, writes "Echolocation in Bats". Michel Jouvet, the discoverer of REM sleep, writes "REM (paradoxical) Sleep". Dmitri Anosov writes "Anosov Diffeomorphisms". Nail Fenichel writes "Normal Hyperbolicity". Richard FitzHugh wrote "FitzHugh-Nagumo Model". Kiyoshi Ito writes "Ito Calculus". John Milnor wrote "Attractor". Otto Rossler wrote "Rossler Attractor". Yakov Sinai wrote "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy". Steven Smale writes "Smale Horseshoe", and so on. Among participants of Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience (a sister project in Scholarpedia) there are 5 Nobel Laureates. | Most articles in Scholarpedia are written by the original authors. For example, Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractals, writes "Fractals" and "Mandelbrot Set". Franz Halberg, who coined the word 'circadian', writes "Chronobiology" and "Circadian Rhythm". Edward Lorenz, the discoverer of phenomenon of chaos, writes "Butterfly Effect". Robert Galambos, the discoverer of sonar in bats, writes "Echolocation in Bats". Michel Jouvet, the discoverer of REM sleep, writes "REM (paradoxical) Sleep". Dmitri Anosov writes "Anosov Diffeomorphisms". Nail Fenichel writes "Normal Hyperbolicity". Richard FitzHugh wrote "FitzHugh-Nagumo Model". Kiyoshi Ito writes "Ito Calculus". John Milnor wrote "Attractor". Otto Rossler wrote "Rossler Attractor". Yakov Sinai wrote "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy". Steven Smale writes "Smale Horseshoe", and so on. Among participants of Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience (a sister project in Scholarpedia) there are 5 Nobel Laureates. | ||
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The main idea of Scholarpedia is that articles should outlive their authors via the process of curatorship. Similarly to Wikipedia (a free non-reviewed encyclopedia), anybody can edit or revise articles in Scholarpedia, even after they are peer-reviewed and published. For example, other scientists may find and correct an error in your article, add a figure, rewrite a paragraph that is not clearly written, and so on. In contrast to Wikipedia, each article in Scholarpedia has a Curator (typically, its author), whose name is at the top of the article and who accepts or rejects each such revision. For example, if you read an article in Wikipedia "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy", you do not know who wrote it and whether or not you could trust it. If you read Scholarpedia article "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy", which is written and curated by Yakov Sinai, then you know that everything there is either written by or was later approved by Dr. Sinai. In this sense, Scholarpedia is unlike anything else that has ever been done with scientific publications. Just think of what your article would look like 50 years from now! | The main idea of Scholarpedia is that articles should outlive their authors via the process of curatorship. Similarly to Wikipedia (a free non-reviewed encyclopedia), anybody can edit or revise articles in Scholarpedia, even after they are peer-reviewed and published. For example, other scientists may find and correct an error in your article, add a figure, rewrite a paragraph that is not clearly written, and so on. In contrast to Wikipedia, each article in Scholarpedia has a Curator (typically, its author), whose name is at the top of the article and who accepts or rejects each such revision. For example, if you read an article in Wikipedia "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy", you do not know who wrote it and whether or not you could trust it. If you read Scholarpedia article "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy", which is written and curated by Yakov Sinai, then you know that everything there is either written by or was later approved by Dr. Sinai. In this sense, Scholarpedia is unlike anything else that has ever been done with scientific publications. Just think of what your article would look like 50 years from now! | ||
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Dear Dr. %NAME%,
As an editor, I would like to invite you to write a short entry "%TITLE%" for Gastropod Neuroscience, which is hosted by Scholarpedia - the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia. This project, being a synthesis of philosophies of Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, is ambitious and unique. You can read more about it at http://www.scholarpedia.org. Your article will be peer-reviewed, and upon acceptance, you will become the curator of the whole topic "%TITLE%" in Scholarpedia (see below).
The goal of Gastropod Neuroscience in Scholarpedia is provide a perpetually up-to-date reference about model gastropod nervous systems, such as Aplysia, Hermissenda, and Tritonia. This can be a starting point for students seeking to learn about these model systems. It will also serve as a reference for generla aspects of Gastropod nervous systems and behavior, such as feeding, development, and learning and memory.
You can write your article alone. However, I encourage you to take a co-author, e.g., a colleague, a former student or postdoc, who will become your co-curator. If you want to change the title or have other preferences, please let me know.
I have created the following account for you in Scholarpedia: Username: %USERNAME% Password: %PASSWORD% To accept this invitation, please click %URL%
If you cannot write this article within a reasonable period of time, please let us know as soon as possible by clicking %URL%&no=1 In this case, we would highly appreciate your suggesting the names of the best experts to invite to write this article.
Sincerely Yours,
Paul S. Katz [1]
Editor of Gastropod Neuroscience in Scholarpedia
<pkatz@gsu.edu>
Here is a description of Scholarpedia written by the Editor-in-Chief, Eugene M. Izhikevich [2]:
Most articles in Scholarpedia are written by the original authors. For example, Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractals, writes "Fractals" and "Mandelbrot Set". Franz Halberg, who coined the word 'circadian', writes "Chronobiology" and "Circadian Rhythm". Edward Lorenz, the discoverer of phenomenon of chaos, writes "Butterfly Effect". Robert Galambos, the discoverer of sonar in bats, writes "Echolocation in Bats". Michel Jouvet, the discoverer of REM sleep, writes "REM (paradoxical) Sleep". Dmitri Anosov writes "Anosov Diffeomorphisms". Nail Fenichel writes "Normal Hyperbolicity". Richard FitzHugh wrote "FitzHugh-Nagumo Model". Kiyoshi Ito writes "Ito Calculus". John Milnor wrote "Attractor". Otto Rossler wrote "Rossler Attractor". Yakov Sinai wrote "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy". Steven Smale writes "Smale Horseshoe", and so on. Among participants of Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience (a sister project in Scholarpedia) there are 5 Nobel Laureates.
Click "Random article" (left menu) to see sample peer-reviewed articles.
The main idea of Scholarpedia is that articles should outlive their authors via the process of curatorship. Similarly to Wikipedia (a free non-reviewed encyclopedia), anybody can edit or revise articles in Scholarpedia, even after they are peer-reviewed and published. For example, other scientists may find and correct an error in your article, add a figure, rewrite a paragraph that is not clearly written, and so on. In contrast to Wikipedia, each article in Scholarpedia has a Curator (typically, its author), whose name is at the top of the article and who accepts or rejects each such revision. For example, if you read an article in Wikipedia "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy", you do not know who wrote it and whether or not you could trust it. If you read Scholarpedia article "Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy", which is written and curated by Yakov Sinai, then you know that everything there is either written by or was later approved by Dr. Sinai. In this sense, Scholarpedia is unlike anything else that has ever been done with scientific publications. Just think of what your article would look like 50 years from now!
The 13th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica has "Space-Time" entry written by A. Einstein and "Psychoanalysis" entry written by S. Freud. If Britannica had the feature of curatorship, physicists and psychologists of today would be fighting each other for the honor to be curators of these articles. The goal of Scholarpedia is to invite today's Einsteins and Freuds to write entries on their major discoveries so that future generation of experts would be willing to maintain these articles via the process of curatorship.
Another unique feature of Scholarpedia is that its authors are either invited by the editor-in-chief (this letter) or elected by the public. Public election of authors ensures fairness in assigning articles to the corresponding experts in each field. Soon Scholarpedia will be transferred to election-only regime.
I hope your schedule would allow you to contribute to the Encyclopedia. If you cannot write this article within a reasonable period of time, please let me know ASAP (by clicking one of the two links above) so that I can invite another expert or initiate election of authors for the article. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
