Wikipedia: Friend or foe?

Reference Services Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 260-271

  West, Kathy ^a   Williamson, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Internet; Reference services

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350147241     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907320910982758     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Anderson, C. (2008), The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, revised ed., Hyperion, New York, NY.
2. Arazy, O. and Patterson, R. (2007), Success drivers for self-governed collective innovation: group size, diversity, and conflict in Wikipedia, working paper, September.
3. Badke, W. (2008), What to do with Wikipedia, Online, Vol. 32 No. 2, pp. 48-50.
4. Bannock, G., Davis, E., Trott, P. and Uncles, M.D. (2002), The New Penguin Business Dictionary, Penguin Books, London.
5. ebrary (2008), 2008 Global Student E-book Survey, available at: www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral/en/Survey/ebrary_student_survey_2008.pdf (accessed August 10, 2008).
6. Garfinkel, S. (2008), "Wikipedia and the meaning of truth", Technology Review, Vol. 111 No. 6, pp. 84-6.
7. Giles, J. (2005), "Internet encyclopedias go head to head", Nature, Vol. 438 No. 7070, pp. 900-1.
8. Gorman, G.E. (2007), "A tale of information ethics and encyclopaedias; or, is Wikipedia just another internet scam?", Online Information Review, Vol. 31 No. 3, pp. 273-6.
9. Halavais, A. and Lackaff, D. (2008), "An analysis of topical coverage of Wikipedia", Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 429-40.
10. Head, A. and Eisenberg, M. (2009), "What today's college students say about conducting research in the digital age", Project Information Literacy Project Report, February 4, available at: www.projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_ProgressReport_2_2009.pdf (accessed March 20, 2009).
11. Janes, J. (2005), "Pedias, familiar and otherwise", American Libraries, Vol. 36 No. 9, p. 76.
12. Nielsen//Netratings(2008),Top 10 brands combined hoursfromhome and work, available at: www. nielsen-online.com/press_fd.jsp?section=pr_netv&nav=3 (accessed February 14, 2008).
13. Pallister, J. and Law, J. (2006), Dictionary of Business and Management, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
14. Parry, D. (2008), Wikipedia and the new curriculum, Science Progress, February 11, available at: www.scienceprogress.org/2008/02/Wikipedia-and-the-new-curriculum// (accessed November 21, 2008).
15. Pressley, L. and McCallum, C. (2008), Putting the library in Wikipedia, Online, Vol. 32 No. 5, pp. 39-42.
16. Read, B. (2006), Can Wikipedia ever make the grade?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 53 No. 10, pp. A31-6.
17. Rector, L.H. (2008), Comparison of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias for accuracy, breadth, and depth in historical articles, Reference Services Review, Vol. 36 No. 1, pp. 7-22.
18. Rosenzweig, R. (2006), Can history be open source? Wikipedia and the future of the past, The Journal of American History, Vol. 93 No. 1, pp. 117-46.
19. Royal, C. and Kapila, D. (2009), What's on Wikipedia, and what's not? Assessing completeness of information, Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 138-48.
20. Wikipedia (2009a), Wikipedia: about, available at: http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About (accessed April 2, 2009).
21. Wikipedia (2009b), Wikipedia: cleanup, available at: http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup (accessed April 2, 2009).
22. Nielsen, F. (2008), Scientific citations in Wikipedia, First Monday, Vol. 12 No. 8, available at: www.uic.edu.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1997/1872 (accessed September 26, 2003).