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In recent years, the world of encyclopedia publishing has been challenged as new collaborative models of online information gathering and sharing have developed. Most notable of these is Wikipedia. Although Wikipedia has a core group of devotees, it has also attracted critical comment and concern, most notably in regard to its quality. In this article we compare the scope of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica in the subject of biochemistry using a popular first year undergraduate textbook as a benchmark for concepts that should appear in both works, if they are to be considered comprehensive in scope.
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Luyt, B., Kwek, W.T., Sim, J.W., York, P. (2007). Evaluating the Comprehensiveness of Wikipedia: The Case of Biochemistry. In: Goh, D.HL., Cao, T.H., Sølvberg, I.T., Rasmussen, E. (eds) Asian Digital Libraries. Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers. ICADL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77094-7_72
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