Wikipedia and academic peer review: Wikipedia as a recognised medium for scholarly publication?

Online Information Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-88

  Black, Erik W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge creation; Online operations; Peer review; Publications

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE; CONTENT-MALLEABLE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE CREATION; ONLINE OPERATIONS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 40249113989     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520810865994     Document Type: Article

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