Representatives of nonprofit project AcaWiki have announced the opening of a new semantic-Wiki based website (http://acawiki.org) that allows scholars, students and bloggers to easily post summaries and discuss academic papers online. All content posted to the site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.
AcaWiki seeks to make academic research more accessible and interactive by creating a ‘Wikipedia for academic research’. It enables users to easily post and discuss human-readable summaries of academic papers and literature reviews online. Also, it helps users to share and organise summaries through the use of tags and RSS feeds. The initiative follows on the work of open access publishers such as the Public Library of Science, as well as on the tradition of using new media to create public dialogue with science. Scholars can post summaries of their or others research online as long as they are not copying verbatim beyond what fair-use laws permit.
AcaWiki’s website is built using Semantic MediaWiki, which seeks to combine the sophistication of the semantic web with the ease-of-use of a Wiki. The site enables comments, discussion, user profiles and tagging. Visitors can also import and export from other reference-management tools, such as Endnote and Zotero, via the BibTeX standard.
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