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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a freely-accessible
Open access

Open access -- free online access -- can be provided in two ways: open access publishing and open access self-archiving, by its authors, of non-open-access publications ....
 online encyclopedia of philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 maintained by Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
. The SEP was initially developed with U.S. public funding from the NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities....
 and NSF
National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering....
. A long-term fundraising plan to preserve open access to the Encyclopedia is supported by many university libraries and library consortia. These institutions contribute under a plan devised by the SEP in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship....
 (SPARC), the International Coalition of Library Consortia
International Coalition of Library Consortia

The International Coalition of Library Consortia is an informal, self-organized group of primarily Higher education library consortia from around the world for the discussion of issues of common interest among the consortia members....
 (ICOLC) and the Southeastern Library Network
Southeastern Library Network

The Southeastern Library Network is a not-for-profit membership cooperative of libraries and other information organizations. Established in 1973 by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries , SOLINET collaborates with member libraries and local, regional, and national partners to provide leadership for cooperative action to improve...
 (SOLINET), with matching funding from the NEH.






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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a freely-accessible
Open access

Open access -- free online access -- can be provided in two ways: open access publishing and open access self-archiving, by its authors, of non-open-access publications ....
 online encyclopedia of philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 maintained by Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
. The SEP was initially developed with U.S. public funding from the NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities....
 and NSF
National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering....
. A long-term fundraising plan to preserve open access to the Encyclopedia is supported by many university libraries and library consortia. These institutions contribute under a plan devised by the SEP in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship....
 (SPARC), the International Coalition of Library Consortia
International Coalition of Library Consortia

The International Coalition of Library Consortia is an informal, self-organized group of primarily Higher education library consortia from around the world for the discussion of issues of common interest among the consortia members....
 (ICOLC) and the Southeastern Library Network
Southeastern Library Network

The Southeastern Library Network is a not-for-profit membership cooperative of libraries and other information organizations. Established in 1973 by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries , SOLINET collaborates with member libraries and local, regional, and national partners to provide leadership for cooperative action to improve...
 (SOLINET), with matching funding from the NEH. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert
Expert

An "expert" is someone widely recognized as a reliabilism source of wikt:technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their Peer groups or the public in a specific well distinguished domain....
 in the field, including professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
s from over 65 academic institution
Academic institution

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s worldwide. Apart from its online status, the encyclopedia uses the traditional academic approach of most encyclopedias and academic journal
Journal

__FORCETOC__A journal has several related meanings:* a daily record of events or business; a private journal is usually referred to as a diary....
s to achieve quality by means of:
  • specialist authors selected by an editor
    Editing

    Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
     or an editorial committee which is competent (though not necessarily a specialist) in the field covered by the encyclopedia; and
  • peer review
    Peer review

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    .


Authors contributing to the Encyclopedia give Stanford University the permission to publish the articles but retain the copyright
Copyright

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 to those articles.

The Encyclopedia was created in 1995 by Edward N. Zalta
Edward N. Zalta

Edward N. Zalta, born in 1952, is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst....
, with the explicit aim of providing a dynamic encyclopedia which is updated regularly, and so does not become dated in the manner of print encyclopedias. The charter for the encyclopedia allows for rival articles on a single topic to reflect reasoned disagreements amongst scholars. As of November 2008, the SEP has over 1000 published entries.

See also

  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a free online encyclopedia on Philosophy topics and philosophers founded by James Fieser in 1995....
  • List of online encyclopedias
    List of online encyclopedias

    This is a list of online encyclopedias, which are accessible on the World Wide Web....
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an encyclopedia of philosophy edited by Edward Craig that was first published by Routledge in 1998 ....


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