NFAIS VIRTUAL HALF-DAY WORKSHOP: Wikipedia: Its Impact on Research and Medical Discovery

Today, libraries and researchers rely on discovery tools and abstract and citation databases for finding peer-reviewed literature. Wikipedia- a freely available public knowledge base that is still somewhat viewed as a resource students and researchers alike should not rely on-has been found to be the 5^th most used internet site for search and discovery.  Wikipedia has recently committed greater resources to providing quality sources of information by partnering with libraries, content providers and publishers, and encouraging them to open their content to editors of the Wikipedia Library by contributing reliable, trustworthy linked references to scholarly articles. 

While this may seem like an audacious goal, one has to wonder its potential to build pathways-connecting users to content providers, encouraging increased traffic to scholarly content including non-affiliated users, reducing library costs for access to discovery tools and citation databases-and for being seen by the world over as the go-to hub for scientific research, data and medical breakthroughs.

Attendees will learn:

• How content providers, discovery services, libraries and researchers are partnering with Wikipedia to add new content, citations, bibliographic metadata, and digital research objects,
• How Wikipedia is overcoming its past stigma to become a valuable and trusted resource for researchers. 

For more information, go to: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=546756

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Presenters include:

·         Franda Liu
Project Scientist, National Network Coordinating Office,
National Network of Libraries of Medicine

·         Kristin Garlock 
Associate Director, Education & Outreach
JSTOR-ITHAKA

·         Merrilee Proffit
Senior Manager
OCLC Research 

·         Sam Zidovetzki, MD
Instructor, Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice
Mount Sinai Hospital

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