The free encyclopedia ‘Wikipedia’ is a popular resource among the users of different ages and social statuses, commonly used for information search. Wikipedia contains numerous pages that could be of interest to researchers, such as those about famous scientists, scientific events, academic journals, and more. These pages can be enriched by adding links to the researches of scientists who developed those ideas and studied those concepts.
We invite our researchers to participate in editing and creating Wikipedia pages. The Library consultants can assist you with the following:
- Creating/editing a page for a researcher in the encyclopedia
- Creating/editing a page in the category «Видання КПІ» (Publications of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute)
- Adding the main works to the researcher’s page
- Adding citations to the page of specific concepts or ideas.
To create an Igor Sikorsky KPI researcher’s page you need the following information:
General information about the researcher, including the year and place of birth, academic degree, and academic honors)
Circle of academic interests
Main dates of life and scientific activity
Information about education, working, scientific, and public activity, list of publications, the most important works, prizes, awards.
To create the page for Igor Sikorsky KPI publication, you will need the following information: date of foundation, subject areas, ISSN, frequency, founder, publisher, aims and scope, editorial board, editorial policies, indexation in databases, contact information.
Consultations on editing your profile and creating pages are available at the Center for Education and Research Support (KPI Library, the 4th Floor, room 4.4).
