Scholarpedia

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Scholarpedia is an online wiki-based encyclopedia in which articles are written by invited expert authors and are subject to peer review.[1] The articles are available online without charge for non-commercial use, but may not be copied in bulk. An author is given credit on the article page.

Only registered users can edit an article, and those edits are subject to approval by the curator of the article, who is typically the author. Users have a scholar index attribute which is incremented or decremented by various activities and which controls what capabilities the user has. The web site uses the MediaWiki software.

Scholarpedia is not a general encyclopedia; it only attempts to cover a few, quite narrow fields. The fields include computational neuroscience, dynamical systems, and computational intelligence.[2]

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  1. ^ Scholarpedia: the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia. Society of Applied Neuroscience (11 November 2006). Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
  2. ^ Scholarpedia. The MIT Presslog (January 08, 2007). Retrieved on March 27, 2007.

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