[Asis-l] Podcast | Data for _Nature_ Wikipedia/Britannica Article

[Gerry Mckiernan]

***Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings***

Podcast|Data for _Nature_ Wikipedia/ Britannica  Article

Colleagues/

In case you didn't notice, there is a podcast associated with the _Nature_ December 15th article on Wikipedia 

"Internet encyclopedias go head to head" by Jim Giles
Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a _Nature_  investigation finds.
[ http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html ] [FREE]

ALSO:Wikipedia as Accurate as Britannica 
[ http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?print=1&article_id=69780&cat_id=643 ]

The podcast  is available from the _Nature_ podcast page 

[ http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index.html ]

BTW: The feature includes an interview with the author of the article as well as one with 
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia.

BTW: In addition, a table  with a list of the 50 entries reviewed in the study and the number of inaccuracies 
found in the Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia respectively is available and located at 

[ http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/multimedia/438900a_m1.html ]

*** All Are Well Worth The Read (and Listen) ***

Season's Greetings !!!

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian 
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu