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\title{Q\&A with protocols.io}



\author[1]{Josh Nicholson}%
\author[1]{Alberto Pepe}%
\author[2]{Matteo Cantiello}%
\author[3]{anjuli manche}%
\author[3]{Lenny Teytelman}%
\affil[1]{Authorea}%
\affil[2]{Simons Foundation}%
\affil[3]{Affiliation not available}%


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  \date{June 16, 2024}


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\section*{What is your mission?}

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We founded Authorea with the mission of accelerating and opening up
scientific discovery. We were frustrated that a writing tool didn't
fully suit the needs of researchers -- especially researchers in a
web-first, data-driven world. ~Our mission is to reinvent how research
documents are written and shared to capture the power of the web. In
short, we allow researchers to create 21st century documents for 21st
century research.

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\section*{What is the story behind
Authorea?}

Authorea was started by two physicists, Alberto Pepe and Nathan Jenkins,
who met while working at CERN in Geneva. CERN is the birthplace of the
World Wide Web. The web was initially created to be a scientific
information network that would allow researchers to share and
disseminate scientific insights~as fast as possible . The web today
touches many facets of our lives: we produce massive volumes of content
for the web, in HTML. Yet, scientific information is by and large still
written, published and exchanged in formats which are not fully web
compatible. PDFs and Microsoft Word documents, for example, are
printer-centric rather than web-centric. Our plan with Authorea was to
bring the writing process and its products (scientific manuscripts) to
the web.

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We're a \href{https://www.authorea.com/aboutus}{small group} of former
researchers from variety of different backgrounds, including life
sciences, physics, math, computer science, and even the classics!~\selectlanguage{english}
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\section*{How does Authorea save time for
scientists?}

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Researchers spend their days doing cutting-edge research and analysis.
But when it comes time to writing, publishing, and disseminating their
work, they're often still using models and tools that haven't changed
much in decades, if not centuries. Authorea is a new collaborative,
web-based platform that brings researchers a modern technological
solution for writing, editing and publishing. It covers the research
cycle from writing a first draft, through to submission and publication.
Authorea lives online because we now live online. Authorea is built on
Git - the most advanced version control system - so that versions of
your documents are duly recorded and saved. Authorea is multi-format,
meaning it supports the creation of mixed-format documents including
LaTeX, markdown, and rich text. Authorea also lets you integrate data,
code, and all the materials needed to reproduce scientific results in
your papers. This lowers the technical barrier to sharing, paving the
way for transparency and reproducibility---the pillars of the scientific
method.

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\section*{What have been the main challenges for
Authorea?}

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Changing habits is hard. And scientists are particularly tough nuts to
crack. In fact, we were asked to write this FAQ on a Google doc (we
forgive you protocols.io team)! In some instances, we've been asked to
send over a Word document for editing. We need to make life easier and
more productive for researchers today with an eye towards improving the
corpus of knowledge in the future--it's a balancing act in a way.

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\section*{What are your 2-3 favorite efforts in terms of reproducibility?
What are the tools that should be created in the future to make research
more
reproducible?}

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We want to help researchers create and disseminate their work online so
that other tools can be built off of the content. Currently, data-mining
and extraction of scientific knowledge from papers are very difficult to
do given that papers are not written and published following a
semantically-rich structure. In fact, much of research is locked in PDFs
making text analysis extremely difficult. As we bring more and more
research online, and in the open, there will be many opportunities to
build tools that enhance reproducibility of research, many that we can't
in any useful way predict.

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\section*{What are your tips for young researchers joining the labs/young
professors starting
their?}

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Good luck! ;) We encourage you to use available online collaborative
tools. Also -~\textbf{the future is open} - create your content and data
in an open environment! For example, if you are a new addition to a
research lab, set up a research page for your
lab~\href{https://www.authorea.com/users/8850/articles/183582-turn-key-research-writing-and-publishing-with-authorea-for-groups-and-teams}{here}!
Building an online presence for you and your lab is very important for
recruitment, grants, and for public engagement.

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\section*{Can you share 1-2 things in the queue of Authorea
improvements/developments that you're excited
about?}

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We recently revisited our ``group'' offering to support an increasing
desire from users who want to see Authorea as a team-based collaborative
workspace for documents. With the new group offering, users are able to
share their documents privately and publicly with groups they are
members of. A ``group'' can be an organization, a company, as well as a
team, a lab, a journal club, or a class. Groups then, become a portal
for documents, administered and managed by users. We also introduced the
ability for group admins to customize the appearance of their group page
and host it at a dedicated custom URL. So, now, if Dr. Jones' wants to
have a dedicated group portal to showcase the research papers of his/her
Microbiology Lab, they could get a page like the one below hosted at
drjoneslab.com.~

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