[Cz-biology] [5] [Cz-health-sci] Merck proposal

[Michael J Grey]

Dear All,

I think this is an excellent idea. I have used the Merck Manual for many 
years. I frequently refer my students to this source.

Best regards,
Michael.

MJ Grey, PhD
Associate Professor

Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology &
Department of Exercise and Sport Science
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.cph-ncm.ku.dk/mgrey/



Larry Sanger wrote:
> All,
>
> The following is a proposal we received.  I have some comments after it.
>
> ========
> First, let me applaud your effort to provide a wiki with content from expert
> contributors. There is a great deal of information available free online,
> though not all of it is reliable.
>
> Second, I propose a collaboration between Citizendium and the Merck Manuals
> department at Merck & Co., Inc. This department, of which I'm a staff member
> (Executive Editor, Electronic Publications), publishes The Merck Manual, a
> print and online textbook created by expert contributors.
>
> We are prepared to place links in your External Links section of Citizendium
> topics to related material in our online version of The Merck Manual. Two
> examples:
>
> Subject: Guillain Barre Syndrome. 
> Your page: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Guillain-Barre_syndrome 
> The link in External Links would go to:
> http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec16/ch223/ch223d.html
>
> Subject: Otitis Externa. 
> Your page: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Otitis_externa  
> The link in External Links would go to:
> http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec08/ch088/ch088c.html
>
> Unfortunately, we are not in a position to author material for you, but we'd
> be delighted to add value to your pages with links to our material. We
> invite you to visit The Manual at http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html to
> determine for yourself whether links to this content is acceptable and
> desirable. In a preliminary review, I found 40 to 50 Citizendium topics to
> which we could contribute.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested in such a collaboration.
> ========
>
> I can say (publicly on this list) that this would be welcome to me.  Merck
> has an excellent reputation, and it seems unlikely that there would be
> anything in their manuals that we should not send users to.
>
> More important, perhaps, is that this very small request (it's basically
> just a request to add 50 links to CZ) might be the beginning of a useful
> collaboration.
>
> I'm inclined to say "yes," but I wanted to get your feedback first.
>
> --Larry
>
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