CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Encyclopedia of Earth

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Encyclopedia of Earth http://www.earthportal.net/eoe
The world's experts on the environment of Earth, and the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth, are forming to produce a single comprehensive and definitive electronic encyclopedia about the Earth. The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) will be free to the public and free of advertising. We seek all qualified editors and authors to collaboratively develop:

* A free, fully searchable, trusted source of articles about the Earth
* A to Z coverage of topics describing the environment of Earth that span the natural, physical, and social sciences, the arts and humanities, and the professional disciplines
* An information resource that will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, decision-makers, as well as to the general public
* An authoring site that combines the authority of peer review with the power of Web-based collaboration
* A public reference site that is updated every 15 minutes

Editors: Professor Cutler J. Cleveland of Boston University, Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Science), is the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. A distinguished International Advisory Board provides editorial oversight (see below).

Publisher: The Encyclopedia is one component of the Earth Portal (http://earthportal.net/ ), the world's first comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the Earth and environmental change. It is published by the Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment (http://www.ncseonline.org ).

Scope: The scope of the Encyclopedia is the environment of the Earth broadly defined, with particular emphasis on the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth. See the taxonomy and topic areas at http://earthportal.net/EP/eoe/eoetopics/ .

Join the Effort: If you are interested and want more information, please send an email to , or visit ( http://earthportal.net/EP/steward/ ).

Posted on April 12, 2006