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## Vision

We hope to use the Wikibooks format to make an Open Source Handbook on
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, freely accessible for everyone, that can
be updated continuously.

Wikipedia is growing fast and one of the most visited websites on the
net -- a valuable resource of information we all use.

In science and technology we often need more detailed information than
what can be presented in a brief encyclopedic article -- and here
wikibooks.org, a sister project to Wikipedia, can help us with this
newly started handbook.

Though the book is still in its infancy, it has been elected book of the
month December 2006, and we hope this will provide PR and more people
contributing to the project!

The plan to create the book:

1: First to create smaller articles to 'cover' the entire area of
nanotechnology and achieve a well defined structure the book (some parts
could be revised thoroughly in this process,for instance the materials
chapter).

2: Once the structure is reasonably well defined, to begin refining the
articles with in-depth material so we reach lecture-note level material.

3: Since everybody can contribute, a continuous contribution of material
is expected and a backing group of editors is needed to maintain a
trustworthy level of information.

An voluntary editorial board is being put together to oversee the book,
support, contribute and follow its development.

Discussion about the content of the book can be found on the main talk
page talk:Nanotechnology

As with Wikipedia, we hope to see a solid information resource
continuously updated with open source material available for everyone!

## Editing hints

### References in Wikibooks

Add references whenever possible, with reference lists at the end of
each page. Please try to make links to the articles with the DOI
(digital object identifier) because that gives a uniform and structured
access for everyone to the papers.

All papers get a DOI - a unique number like a bar code in a supermarket.
All DOIs are registered by www.doi.org and in
the reference list you can add links like
<https://doi.org/10.1039/b504435a>
so people will be able to find it no matter how the homepage of the
journal or their own library changes.

The  References section has an example
reference.

Add links to the Wikipedia whenever possible - and for the beginning I
will rely extensively on Wikipedia\'s pages on the subjects, simply
referring to these. This textbook could be simply a gathering of
Wikipedia pages, but an encyclopedia entry is brief, and for a handbook
it is preferable to have more in-depth material with examples and the
necessary formulas. So, some information in this textbook will be very
much like the Wikipedia entries and we might not need to write it in the
book but can simply refer to Wikipedia, but the hope is that this will
be more a text book as is the intention with Wikibooks.

Multiple references, see w:Help:Footnotes

### Links

There\'s a shorthand way to make links to Wikipedia from Wikibooks:
\[\[w:Quantum_tunneling\|Wikipedia on Quantum Tunneling\]\] gives the
link  Wikipedia on Quantum Tunneling.

### Media

## History

The book was started by Kristian
Molhave(wiki user
page) 13. Apr. 2006. Initially it was
named *Nanowiki*, and later changed to
Nanotechnology. Kristian is currently
slowly uploading material to the book and looking for people who would
like to contribute that can and substantial material to specific
sections under the GNU license. I hope we can make an \'editorial
panel\' of people each keeping an eye on and updating specific sections.

The Summer 2008 Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) eStudies
Nanotechnology students will be adding to the content of this Wikibook.
From June-Aug 2008 there will be content additions with references that
will add to this great resource.

## Authors and Editors

-   The Opensource Handbook on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology was
    started by Kristian Molhave(wiki user
    page)

### Editors

-   An editorial board is currently being organized.

## Support and Acknowledgments

Starting this book is supported by the Danish Agency for Science,
Technology and
Innovation
through Kristian Mølhave\'s talent project
'NAMIC' No. 26-04-0258.

## How to Reference this Book

I am not currently sure how work on wikibooks or wikipedia can be
referenced reliably in published literature.

Three suggestions:

1\) Reference the references from the wikibook. Wikibooks are not
intended to be the publication channel for new results, but should be
based on published and accepted information with references and these
references can be used. But this of course does not give credit to the
book, so I recommend then adding an acknowledgement about the book to
give it PR and credit.

2\) Reference the book with a specific page and date - the previous
versions of the pages are all available in the history pane and can
easily be accessed by future users. You can also hit \"permanent
version\" on the left side of the webpage (it is under \"toolbox\").
That sends you specifically to the selected version of the wikipage with
a link to it that will never change.

3\) Reference the PDF version and its version number. Once the book
achieves a reasonable level, PDF versions will become available for
download and they will have a unique version number and can be
retrieved.

Other suggestions are most welcome!

Edwards, Steven A.,The Nanotech Pioneers Christiana, USA: Wiley-VCH
2006, pg 2

