Despite the growth of open access, most sci­en­tific jour­nals are still closed and the access debate rages on. Now, how­ever, the closed access RNA Biol­ogy has cho­sen another option: it requires all sci­en­tists sub­mit­ting an arti­cle for pub­li­ca­tion to also cre­ate a Wikipedia arti­cle out­lin­ing their findings.

From the journal’s new sub­mis­sion guide­lines:

At least one stub arti­cle (essen­tially an extended abstract) for the paper should be added to either an author’s user­space at Wikipedia (pre­ferred route) or added directly to the main Wikipedia space (be sure to add lit­er­a­ture ref­er­ences to avoid speedy dele­tion). This arti­cle will be reviewed along­side the man­u­script and may require revi­sion before accep­tance. Upon accep­tance the for­mer arti­cles can eas­ily be exported to the main Wikipedia space.

via Read­WriteWeb