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Hi DelmarLarsen, welcome to CC Wiki. Unfortunately your recent edits were blocked due to editing restrictions imposed recently to reduce undesirable spamming activities. These restrictions have been lifted, so you should now be able to proceed. You may now create the page Case Studies/ChemWiki with the contents:

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|Description=The ChemWiki is a collaborative approach toward chemistry education where an Open Access textbook environment is constantly being written and re-written by students and faculty members resulting in a free Chemistry textbook to supplant conventional paper-based books. The ChemWiki is a principal hub of the UC Davis STEMWiki Hyperlibrary, which is a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access E-texts to improve STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) at all levels of higher learning. Other STEMWikis include the BioWiki, the GeoWiki, the StatWiki, the PhysWiki and the MathWiki.
|Mainurl=ChemWiki.ucdavis.edu
|Author=Delmar Larsen
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
|Tag=chemistry, wiki
|License short name=CC BY-NC-ND
|CC adoption date=2008
|Format=Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource
|Country=USA
|Quote=“Before writing off ChemWiki as something that can't possibly work in practice, consider how Wikipedia was viewed when initially launched. Creating a textbook in a technical subject such as chemistry and creating a general-purpose encyclopedia may not both be equally suited to the Wikipedia model - only time will tell. One thing is clear: the economic model on which the current system of textbook publication is based may not remain viable for much longer. ChemWiki offers an intriguing alternative”.
|Quote_Attribution= Rich Apodaca (http://zusammen.metamolecular.com)
}}

== Overview ==
The UC Davis STEMWiki Hyperlibrary (formerly Dynamic Textbook Project), consisting of seven pseudo-independently operating and interconnected “STEMWikis,” focuses on augmenting post-secondary education in multiple STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. The principal advantage of the STEMWiki approach is to capitalize on efforts of both students and faculty to generate freely-available textbook substitutes that take full ad-vantage of online utility to enhance student learning needs. The STEMWikis are developed by a multi-disciplinary team of faculty and students representing Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Geology, Statistics, Engineering, Molecu-lar and Cell Biology, and Evolution and Ecology that build and connects individual STEMWikis as “Hubs” in the devel-oping Hyperlibrary network.

== License Usage ==
The content in the STEMWiki Hyperlibrary is licences by CC-BY-NC_SA unless otherwise noted.

== Motivations ==
The project adopted CC in 2008 after review of existing protocols.

== Impact ==
Over the past six years, the ChemWiki has developed a strong market of student visitors (~3 million people per month and over 3,000 hours of reading per day), which is predicted to significantly increase in the near future given our current growth statistics. For example, the ChemWiki is currently ranked highly in Google searches (in the USA) for Analytical Chemistry (#7), Biological Chemistry (#2), Physical chemistry (#5), Organic chemistry (#4), Theoretical chemistry (#4) terms. Also, simple test searches indicate that Google searches for any major terms from General chemistry or Organic chemistry courses will generate results with the ChemWiki ranked in the top 5 spots, if not at #1. The ChemWiki often outranks Wikipedia in searches and currently attracts 14% of all traffic to UCD (the top site on campus).

== Technical Details ==
The wiki database engine designed and hosted by Mindtouch is an impressive infrastructure that supports the Hyperlibrary’s current load of over 150,000 pageviews per day without difficulty. It is expected that the engine can easily handle the >500,000 daily pageviews the Hyperlibrary project expects next year.

== Media ==
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Apologies for the inconvenience, welcome once more and happy editing. -- ~~