Research wikis

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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• This list is still under development. Every part of it may change before the official launch, including its title, URL, and method of organization.

• This is a list of wikis devoted to research fields or research topics.

• Related lists in OAD: Wikis about OA

• Organized by field, and alphabetical by title within each field.

Agriculture

• Agrowiki is an agricultural wiki which is a subsidiary of Agropedia - an “integrated model of digital content organization in the agricultural domain”. It is hosted and managed by Akvo, an open source Internet and mobile software developer that aims to make “international development cooperation and aid activity more effective and transparent.”

Biology / life sciences

• Also see medicine.

• BioWiki is a biology wiki. It aims to be a dynamic open access wiki textbook resource. BioWiki and the "STEMWiki" library is directed by UC Davis Professor Delmar Larsen.

• Brede Wiki is a neuroinformatics wiki focusing on neuroimaging information. Most of the data in this wiki is from functional neuroimaging papers. It was launched in 2009 at Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, / Technical University of Denmark.

• Galaxy is a wiki that focuses on computational biomedical research. It is part of a larger web-based platform called Galaxy Project.

• OpenWetWare is a biology and biological engineering wiki managed by the BioBricks Foundation.

Chemistry

• Alchemistry.org is a wiki focused on "free energy calculations".

• ChemWiki is a chemistry wiki. It aims to be a dynamic open access wiki textbook resource. It was created and is currently directed by Prof. Delmar Larsen at UC Davis.

• Molecular Wiki is a wiki focused on molecular mechanics.

Classics

• The Digital Classicist is a wiki devoted to the application of humanities computing to research in the ancient and Byzantine worlds.

Diplomacy

• Diplopedia is the internal wiki of the United States Department of State that focuses on issues of diplomacy.

• The Water Diplomacy AquaPedia Case Study Database is a freely accessed wiki database of water management and conflict case studies. It was launched in 2012 at Tufts University.

Earth sciences

• GeoWiki is a geology wiki. It aims to be a dynamic open access wiki textbook resource. It was created and is currently directed by Prof. Delmar Larsen at UC Davis.

Economics

• Stockopedia is a stock market oriented wiki.

Education

• Open Access:Education is an education wiki.

Engineering

• Thermal-FluidsPedia is a collaborative online encyclopedia focused on "thermal and fluids science and engineering".

Law

• JurisPedia is a wiki devoted to international legal and political sciences. It is a collaborative project of multiple academic institutions.

• Law Wiki is a wiki devoted to issues of U.S. and international law. It was launched in 2007.

• Wex is a legal wiki hosted by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University.

Library and Information Science

• Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians (OAWAL) is a resource identified as a wiki/blog, focused on open access business plans and workflows in the context of libraries.

• OpenAIRE Guidelines are a collaborative resource outlining OpenAIRE guidelines for "publication repositories, data archives and CRIS systems".

Linguistics

• Glottopedia is a linguistics wiki. It has multiple language versions. It was launched in 2007.

Literature

• Electronic Literature: A HUMlab Workshop is a wiki focused on "electronic literature and open access publishing".

Mathematics

• The Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki is an open access resource that contains over 8,000 entries on math-related topics. The original articles from the online Encyclopedia of Mathematics, published in 2002 by Kluwer Academic, are copyrighted. New articles and edits to existing articles in the wiki enjoy Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike licensing. Springer cooperated with the European Mathematical Society to make this content open to the public, and the MediaWiki site supports MathJax.

• MathWiki is a collaborative wiki that focuses on mathematics. It aims to be a dynamic open access wiki textbook resource. It was created and is currently directed by Prof. Delmar Larsen at UC Davis.

• StatWiki is a wiki about Statistics. It aims to be a dynamic open access wiki textbook resource. It was created and is currently directed by Prof. Delmar Larsen at UC Davis.

• SMAC-wiki is a wiki containing excepts, reviews, and supporting information surrounding textbook "Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations" by Werner Krauth, including computer program based "supplements the pseudocode algorithms of the book".

Medicine

• Also see biology / life sciences.
• Also see the list of of medical wikis maintained by HLWIKI International.

• CHDWiki is a wiki for geneticists, clinicians, and molecular biologists working on Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs).

• Medpedia was a wiki focused on open medicine working in connection to the biomedical community, ending in 2013.

• NaturalPedia is a natural remedies resource wiki. It is part of The NaturalNews Network.

• Physiopedia is a physiotherapy wiki.

• WikiDoc is a collaborative "open source website" focused on medical information working in connection to the larger healthcare community.

• WikiPremed is a wiki-based MCAT Prep Course

Multidisciplinary wikis

• AcaWiki is a wiki repository for summaries of academic articles under CC-BY. It is run by AcaWiki Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation incorporated in California, U.S.A.

• FOSsil Bank is an interdisciplinary wiki focused on compiling Libre OA works and resources. The successor of this wiki is the Free and Open Works wiki.

• ICORE Wiki is a wiki focused on open research and education in connection to The International Community for Open Research and Education (ICORE).

• nLab is a wiki about mathematics, physics and philosophy.

• Scholarpedia is an interdisciplinary "peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia". Subjects represented in Scholarpedia focus primarily on science, technology, and mathematics.

• WikiArc is a wiki focusing on archaeology, classical antiquity, paleoanthropology, forensic anthropology, cultural heritage studies, and quaternary sciences.

Music

• IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library is a wiki of public domain sheet music. It is associated with Amazon.

Philosophy

• PhiloPedia is a philosophy wiki (also known as the Online Philosophy Club), created in 2007 by Scott Hughes.

• Philopedia is a philosophy wiki associated with the philosopher Peter Singer (this page is in German).

Physics

• CFD-Wiki is a wiki focused on "Computational Fluid Dynamics".

• PhysWiki is a physics wiki. It aims to be a dynamic open access wiki textbook resource. PhysWiki and the "STEMWiki" library is directed by UC Davis Professor Delmar Larsen.

• Quantiki is a quantum information science wiki.

• SEAS Soft Matter Wiki is a student-created wiki focused on the study of Soft Matter.

• SklogWiki is a thermodynamics and statistical mechanics wiki.

Politics / political science

• OpenCongress is an editable guide to the US Congress.

Psychology

• Mental Health Wiki is a wiki that focuses on issues of mental health. It is run by a team of researchers at the University of Melbourne.

• Psychology wiki is a wiki devoted to issues of psychology. It is a wikia site.

Social Science

• Demopaeda is the wiki-based presentation of the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, which is supported by the United Nations Population Division, the IUSSP and the Comité national français of the IUSSP.

Sustainability

• Appropedia is a wiki that focuses on collaborative solutions in sustainability, appropriate technology and poverty reduction.