What kind of apps are available for reading and writing research articles?Scientists, researchers, and scholars now have available apps that make reading and writing articles easier than its ever been before. Many such apps have made their way into other fields and industries and now the same are available to the scientific community.

Use Authorea for technical writingAuthorea is an online collaborative document editor used by scientists. It can also be used for writing technical documents. In fact, the feature set is built for research. This makes Authorea perfect for writing lengthy and complex technical documents of any kind. Some of the most important tools for technical writing are as follows:Mathematical equations, chemical formulae, full LaTeX support

A new eraFall marks a new era for Authorea. Summer was already very eventful -- 8,200+ custom journal templates, increased rendering speed, dictionary support for new languages, improved article metadata, better import and export functionality, and many more improvements (see our product roadmap). Fall is going to be even more eventful! We are launching a modern design and an improved rich-text editor! Our editor "rewrite" marks the culmination of months of work and it is the biggest project we've undertaken since founding Authorea. We hope you'll like it.We'll be rolling out the new Editor to all our users over the next few weeks after our private beta test. You'll get a message very soon with a link to opt-in. Here are some of the updates we think you’ll find exciting:A modern new lookIt took a long time but we finally have a dashing new look: familiar and easy to use like most modern word processors, and at the same time perfectly tailored for the writing needs of researchers. And this is just the beginning. We will continue improving your reading and writing experience.

In this splinter session, ten speakers presented results on solar and stellar activity and how the two fields are connected. This was followed by a lively discussion and supplemented by short, one-minute highlight talks. The talks presented new theoretical and observational results on mass accretion on the Sun, the activity rate of flare stars, the evolution of the stellar magentic field on time scales of a single cycle and over the lifetime of a star, and two different approaches to model the radial-velocity jitter in cool stars that is due to the granulation on the surface. Talks and discussion showed how much the interpretation of stellar activity data relies on the sun and how the large number of objects available in stellar studies can extend the parameter range of activity models.

At Authorea we have big goals, not necessarily for ourselves, but for researchers and the scientific community. We envision a world where researchers write and publish their work openly, they include their data inside of interactive figures and seek collaborators and the community to test their work to ensure it is robust. Communication and publishing is dynamic and modern and research moves more efficiently because researchers move more efficiently. This vision may sound idealistic but it is being realized and we are diligently working to build a platform and community to foster it.  Over the last year we have taken tremendous steps towards creating the place to write and disseminate research. We relaunched our new editor only a few months ago and have redesigned nearly every part of Authorea to make it the best place to write research documents, for all researchers.  We've added direct submission to a growing list of leading journals, have introduced the first and only place to preprint in HTML, and introduced a new version control system for writing research papers.  In short, we've done a lot, really fast.We're going to continue to keep innovating but we're taking a brief pause from introducing new features to focus on reliability, usability, and research support. That means, we want to hear from you. What could we do better? What small or big changes on Authorea would help you be more efficient at research writing and publishing? Below are just some of the major highlights of what we've accomplished in the last few months, which do not include the bugs here and there and tweaks made based on user feedback/testing.  Acquire Research Publisher, The Winnower--LinkNew HomepageLaunch Authorea Beta, our new editor--Linkreal-time collaborationautosaveability to write in Markdown, LaTeX, and rich-text all within one articlenew toolbarPartner with Sample of Science--LinkPartner with eLife for direct submission--LinkImproved UX for LaTeX and Markdown rendering.Improved Author Management controlAdd multi-cite capability/improve design UX of citation tool.New pricing--LinkNew browse page--LinkIntroduce new version control system for research writing--LinkNew features page--LinkIntroduce preprinting capabilities and ability to issue DOI on Authorea--LinkAdd \labels, \refs, New commenting system

Are you comparing Mendeley to other reference managers?Choosing the right reference manager for your scholarly documents is very important. Mendeley is a modern reference and PDF management system. Authorea is a word processor with an integrated reference management system. Authorea's reference management system is seamlessly integrate inside the word processor so that you don't even have to worry about managing references anymore. In this article, we list a few key comparison points that show how Mendeley and Authorea are different.

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Online collaboration is a requirement for modern scientific research, but web-based tools are lagging other industriesTo John Sexton, the 15th president of New York University, Science is Now a Vast Global Enterprise -- one that requires substantial international cooperation and modern tools to accomplish this cooperation. The internet age has brought collaborative advancements to many technical fields -- but the tools to write research have been puzzlingly left behind.As we questioned in an essay in Scientific American last year:How come the internet age has yet to deliver a collaborative writing and publishing tool for research?With research papers gaining more coauthors each year, it's important to have tools that support collaborative technical writing in an environment that is native to the web.Is research becoming more collaborative?According to The Economist, the answer is a firm yes. 

This article presents a new method to compute matrices from numerical simulations based on the ideas of sparse sampling and compressed sensing. The method is useful for problems where the determination of the entries of a matrix constitutes the computational bottleneck. We apply this new method to an important problem in computational chemistry: the determination of molecular vibrations from electronic structure calculations, where our results show that the overall scaling of the procedure can be improved in some cases. Moreover, our method provides a general framework for bootstrapping cheap low-accuracy calculations in order to reduce the required number of expensive high-accuracy calculations, resulting in a significant 3\(\times\) speed-up in actual calculations.

Internet technologies make it easier and easier to share data globally, enabling a dramatic proliferation of online “citizen science” projects. One new project, called “oldAstronomy,” is in development by the Zooniverse team, based at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, in collaboration with the WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors program at Harvard. The goal of the project is to restore hidden metadata to images in published astronomical articles, some more than 100 years old, making the images useful to researchers. In this paper, I investigate a possible role for high school students in the oldAstronomy project. Using two focus groups, one at Milton School and one at Cambridge Ringe and Latin School, I investigate which aspects of participating in oldAstronomy would be of most interest: connections to real data? to real scientists? connecting to other students worldwide? viewing interesting images? researching a topic related to images encountered? It was explained to the focus group students, before they were surveyed, that requirements for their participation in oldAstronomy will include: digesting a scientific paper; summarizing results; and writing a summary that is understandable to the general public or participating in a more creative final project. Results show that students are very interested in working with real data and in the beauty and meaning of images. However, the results also show that students are, perhaps surprisingly, not interested in collaborating and communicating with other students, either in-person (as group work), or online. In response to the feedback from these students’ negative responses to group work, instead of a group final paper, students could benefit in a similar way with a reproduction of the peer review process. Additionally from the feedback of students, there was interest in an alternative form of final assessment. The results of our study suggest that instead of a standard write up, students can create: a 3D model of their object; a website about it; or a WorldWide Telescope tour.

Introduction to document editorsA document editor or word processor is a software application that helps write, edit, format, and publish documents. A document editor differs from a text editor in that it is purpose-built for creating human-readable documents -- rather than simply for modifying text or code snippets. If you look at virtually any industry -- education, research, business, and so on -- document editors are more or less ubiquitous. The most popular document editors globally are Microsoft Word and Google Docs, but it wasn't always that way.History of the document editor

Instructions for Co-Authors The full file repository for this paper is at a shared Google Drive directory, https://drive.google.com/#folders/0BxIRxiTe1u6BcGlnUGt2ckU1Vms, shared with all co-authors. NOTE: THE “AAS” (PRESS CONFERENCE) SLIDES AT HTTPS://DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM/#FOLDERS/0BXIRXITE1U6BRKLQRZLUAUNUUUU GIVE A BETTER IDEA OF WHERE THIS DRAFT IS GOING THAN THE TEXT/FIGURES HERE AS OF NOW... AG WILL UPDATE ALL BY C.1/1/13! The Mendeley Library “Nessie and Friends” used to house references used in this work, at: http://www.mendeley.com/groups/2505711/nessie-and-friends/, but since Authorea works more directly with ADS links, we’ll use the ADS Private Library at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?library&libname=Nessie+and+Friends&libid=488e32b08b instead. The Mendeley library is the source of the nessie.bib file in the “Bibliography” folder here on Authorea, but I am not sure how to get the ADS references out as a .bib file. xxAlberto?xx The Glue software used to intercompare data sets used in this work is online through: http://glue-viz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ We are using Authorea.com as an experimental platform to compile this paper. The manual steps we will need to take before submission include: - download LaTeX file - modify LaTeX file to use aas macros - insert needed information (e.g. about authors, running header) into was version of LaTeX manuscript - extract needed figures from relevant folders here & bundle them with LaTeX manuscript & macros - create .bib file from ADS Private Library - add .bib file to folder with manuscript & figures - fix in-line referencing so that $\citet$ and $\citep$ commands work

Overview This open document is being used to describe and record the events at the Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Data Curation and Analysis, to be held at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, May 9-10 2013. This Google Drive Directory should be used to deposit all files contributed by participants before and during the meeting. (Click "Open in Drive" on your browser to make a new folder, e.g. with your name as its name.) This Google Doc is used for collaborative real-time note-taking. ABSTRACT: Rapid advances in technology have allowed us to collect vast amounts of data in myriad fields and forms, but our ability to manage and analyze these data has not kept pace. As a result, the amount of data collected far exceeds what can be analyzed and, often, what can be archived. These issues only become more pressing as data collection accelerates. Astronomers and astrophysicists, for example, collect terabytes of data per night; the phrase “drowning in a data tsunami” is increasingly used to describe this situation. The issues of what to keep and what to distribute are surprisingly complex, even when we put aside technological issues such as long-term storage and retrieval. A central challenge is the fundamental conflict between reducing the size of data and preserving information for future scientific inquires and statistical analyses. Complicating matters further, the parties/teams involved in the entire data collection, curation, and analysis process often have only limited communication with each other owing to the sequential nature of this process. This seminar brings together a core group of leading experts and emerging scholars in information and natural sciences to discuss, debate, and design principles and strategies to address this grand challenge, which increasingly affects almost every aspect of science and society. GOAL: By gathering experts from information and natural sciences, we aim to start building a set of principles and methods that will allow us to understand such problems and to provide better preprocessing, analyses, and data preservation, especially in the context of the natural sciences. The ultimate goals of this research include providing methods for assessing the validity of such collaborative analyses, guidance on statistically-principled preprocessing, and a rich new theory of statistical learning and inference with multiple parties. We believe that this collaboration will simultaneously sow the seeds for innovative mathematical theory and shed light on directly usable guidelines for the construction and curation of scientific databases.

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1 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CO-AUTHORS Authorlist is not final. It’s just the order in which I added to this article. Will clean up later. This is my first experience with Collaborative online article editing. We write the article here online. When we are done, I will download the LaTeX and bring it in the right form to submit. So, please edit and comment as you like and don’t worry about design and appearance. You can get started by double clicking a text block and begin editing. You can also click the Text button below a block to add new block elements. Or you can drag and drop an image right onto this text. Click the little speech bubble icon on the top right of a block to leave comments. REMEMBER TO PRESS ”SAVE AND CLOSE” AFTER EDITING A TEXT BLOCK! Delete as you see fit - it’s all in the git version control system and I can revert any edits we don’t like. You can use ”export document” on the top right of the screen to see a pdf version. If you don’t see your changes - press ”Reload” in the browser.

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) software environment gives explorers a Universe at their fingertips. Views of the Sky at wavelengths invisible to the human eye, virtual "3D" space travel, and seamless connections to the ever-expanding web of information online about our understanding of the Universe are available to anyone seeking to explore. WWT lets teachers and students learn in completely new, more engaging and data-rich ways, and it lets scientists communicate results, and share and contextualize data much more effectively than they ever have before. In this short article, written to commemorate the full "open-sourcing" of WorldWide Telescope software by Microsoft in 2015, we highlight just a few of the ways WWT has, and will continue to, change education, research, and scholarly communication. Detailed examples of how WorldWide Telescope is used in various settings are described at wwtstories.org.

We propose observations of L1689B in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud (~ 125 pc). The observations will cover the Class 0 core of L1689B and the filament in which the core sits. The goal is to trace the kinematics from the filament to the core. In order to achieve this goal, we propose to observe NH_3 (1, 1) and (2, 2) line emission. By combining data from the proposed VLA observation and the GBT data planned to be taken as part of our ongoing Green Bank Ammonia Survey (GAS; GBT/15A-430), the final maps will be sensitive to spatial scales from 6 arcmin (~ 0.26 pc) to 4 arcsec (~ 500 AU). The combined (VLA+GBT) set of data will have a spectral resolution of 0.1 km/s. The spectral and angular resolution will allow us to probe fragmentation and infall motion within the core. Meanwhile, the spatial coverage will allow us to trace the any flow motion from the filament onto the core, as has been recently found in molecular line observations (for example, 12CO 1-0 and 13CO 1-0) at larger scales. Being a Class 0 (very young) core sitting on a filamentary structure with large-scale velocity gradient, L1689B appears to be an ideal place to test the theory of star formation through accretion along/across filaments.

INTRODUCTION The workshop is intended to discuss ongoing and future work studying the central molecular zone of our galaxy, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between the molecular gas and star formation. The conference web page is http://eso.org/~aginsbur/ESO-CMZ-2015.html and abstracts are listed at http://eso.org/~aginsbur/abstracts.html. This document is intended to include notes from the workshop and a starting point for future work, especially observing proposals and perhaps even papers.