User talk:Sharon Lawler

Welcome!

Welcome, new editor! We're very glad you've joined us. Here are pointers for a quick start. Also, when you get a chance, please read The Editor Role. You can look at Getting Started for other helpful introductory pages. It is essential for you as an editor to join the Citizendium-Editors (broadcast) mailing list in order to stay abreast of editor-related issues, as well as the mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. It is also important, for project-wide matters, to join the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forums is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any constable for help, too. Me, for instance! Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and thank you! We appreciate your willingness to share your expertise, and we hope to see your edits on Recent changes soon. Roger Lohmann 23:19, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Some ideas for contributions

Hi Sharon, welcome aboard CZ. Roger has already given you some hints as to how things work here in general, and I wish to add some more practical suggestions on what possibilities you have to contribute. For a start, I just took some of the keywords from the information you supplied upon registration, and display below the current state of related CZ articles (for icon documentation, see Template:Rpl/Doc):

•  Library [r]: Collection of books and periodicals. ^[e]
•  Librarian [r]: A person who is responsible for a collection of books, magazines, records, specialized or technical information, or materials, which are stored for use. ^[e]
•  Library of Congress [r]: The world's largest library, which has a division that provides research for the U.S. Congress; although the United States has no official library, the Library of Congress has the role in practice, especially as a cataloging authority and containing the Copyright Office ^[e]
•  Journalism [r]: Practice of writing about daily events of interest to people - politics, international affairs, sports, etc. ^[e]
• Journalist [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Information science [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Open access [r]: The free, immediate online access to the results of research, coupled with the right to use those results in new and innovative ways. ^[e]
•  Open science [r]: A movement aimed at making the process of scientific research more transparent both within and beyond the scientific community, and at sharing its results with the widest possible audience. ^[e]
•  Open data [r]: Data that are publicly available for use, reuse and redistribution, typically for free via the World Wide Web. ^[e]
• International Standard Book Number [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  International Standard Serial Number [r]: A unique eight-digit number system used to identify a print or electronic periodical publication, adopted as international standard ISO 3297 in 1975. ^[e]
• Digital Object Identifier [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Society Reference Catalogue [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Academic journal [r]: A regularly-published, peer-reviewed publication that publishes scholarship relating to an academic discipline. ^[e]
• Journal Impact Factor [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Science journalism [r]: A branch of journalism dedicated to reporting about scientific research. ^[e]
• Environmental policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
•  History [r]: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. ^[e]
•  Business [r]: A term that relates to the transaction of commerce. ^[e]
• Fashion [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Scotland [r]: A country that forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom; population about 5,200,000. ^[e]
• Master of Science [r]: Add brief definition or description

In order to find articles dealing with similar topics, it's also worth looking at the Related Article subpages of such an article (or the [r]).

Furthermore, in case you are involved in homework assignments, please consider doing so via Eduzendium articles.

You can help future newcomers by giving your feedback on the above suggestions. To do so, please leave a note on my talk page.

Finally, you may be interested in participating in this experiment that I will be running for a few more days.

Looking forward to fruitful collaborative editing, --Daniel Mietchen 23:39, 26 March 2010 (UTC)