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I love the RNA Biology journal's new guidelines for submissions , which state that you must submit a Wikipedia article on your research on RNA families before the journal will publish your scholarly article on it: This track will primarily publish articles describing either: (1) ...
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Wikipedia Launches Official Mobile Site
micropersuasion.com — Although home grown alternatives have been around for awhile now, Wikipedia recently launched its own official mobile site at http://mobile.wikipedia.org/. The site is very basic, which is exactly what mobile users will want it to be. It's also ... (more) Wikipedia Launches Official Mobile Site
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comoki.com — Wikipedia Mobile Version 1.0 Read and browse Wikipedia easily on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With perfectly formatted articles, outstanding features and excellent usability, Wikipedia Mobile makes it easy to search and read Wikipedia anywhere, in any ... (more) Wikipedia Mobile - Comoki Software
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Nature Makes Journals Free (As They Should Be)
SmoothSpan Blog — ... I was pleasantly surprised to read of a journal that requires the research to go up on Wikipedia before they’ll publish.  In this case its the RNA Biology Journal, which is published by Nature.  Scientists all over should simply insist on their work being published to the web as well as to journals.  And don’t even start with journals needed to charge as much as they do to get it out on print.  Maybe they shouldn’t be trying to get it out on print? ...

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