Authorea is the collaborative typewriter for academia.
From the website:
- Write on the web.
- Writing a scientific article should be as easy as writing a blog post. Every document you create becomes a beautiful webpage, which you can share.
- Collaborate.
- More and more often, we write together. A recent paper coauthored on Authorea by a CERN collaboration counts over 200 authors. If we can solve collaboration for CERN, we can solve it for you too!
- Version control.
- Authorea uses Git, a robust versioning control system to keep track of document changes. Every edit you and your colleagues make is recorded and can be undone at any time.
- Use many formats.
- Authorea lets you write in LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, Javascript, and more. Different coauthors, different formats, same document.
- Data-rich science.
- Did you ever wish you could share with your readers the data behind a figure? Authorea documents can take data alongside text and images, such as IPython notebooks and d3.js plots to make your articles shine with beautiful data-driven interactive visualizations.
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Authorea uses a gentle form of open source persuasion. You can have one (1) private article for free but unlimited public articles. As your monthly rate goes up, you can have an increased number of private articles. Works for me because most if not all of my writing/editing is destined to be public anyway.
Standards are most useful when they are writ LARGE so private or “secret” standards have never made sense to me.