We invite you to apply to become a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Earth. The qualifications are simple. First, you are a recognized expert in a subject area of the Encyclopedia. This means you are a scholar, educator, professional, or other expert from the natural, physical, and social sciences, the arts and humanities, the professional disciplines, the public or private sectors, or the nongovernmental organizations whose work focuses on some aspect of the environment. Second, you are willing to work in a very dynamic, highly collaborative authoring and editorial environment. Third, you embrace the Encyclopedia's commitment to fairness, objectivity, and quality.
There are several roles you can play. Authors contribute content by contributing articles and/or expanding existing articles in their areas of expertise. Topic Editors oversee specific subject areas in the Encyclopedia, often as part of large group of editors on a subject. They approve, recommend for revision, or decline articles for publication, and help set overall content and governance policies. Topic Editors are also encouraged to contribute articles in their areas of expertise. Workloads are commensurate with an individual's time constraints.
There are also roles for non-environmental experts in many areas. We need volunteers with skills in copy-editing, design work, or image gathering.
Why allocate your scarce time to this initiative? There are many potential rewards:
If you are interested in becoming either an Author or a Topic Editor please provide the following information:
About Your Privacy:
The Environmental Information Coalition (EIC) recognizes that privacy is important. This policy covers how the EIC treats personal information that we may collect from your use of the Encyclopedia of Earth, the Earth Portal, or any other web site in the Digital Universe. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
The EIC does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated organizations except under the following circumstances:
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at eoe@earthportal.org.