[zdnet] Scitable, on the other hand, brings the ease and accessibility of Wikipedia to the depth and credibility one would expect from the Nature Publishing Group (these are the folks who bring us the journal Nature, of course, as well as varied publications in science and medicine, ranging from the Journal of Investigative Dermatology to Molecular Psychiatry).
The first deliverable from the Education group is Scitable, an incredible combination of social media and a vast library of articles “commissioned, edited, and reviewed by NPG editors.” While Nature Education intends to expand Scitable’s offerings to include cellular and molecular biology and ultimately tackle the physical sciences, their initial focus has been on genetics.
Exploring Scitable makes it very clear that this strategy of sticking with a single area of expertise and dealing with it expertly and in-depth makes a great deal of sense. I’m not a geneticist, but I spent enough years in the publish or perish world of biomedical research to know that they nailed this. The content is accessible, deep, relevant, and understandable. Entire college courses could be taught around this material and there is more than enough content to keep high school students digging deeper into their Advanced Placement Biology courses or to build introductory genetics curricula.
Scitable brings peer-reviewed credibility to the Wikipedia age
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