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Met one of the founders at a conference last spring. Great guy and dedicated to improving how papers are written. While Authorea can help with interchange forma
by hyperion2010 10y ago
Met one of the founders at a conference last spring. Great guy and dedicated to improving how papers are written. While Authorea can help with interchange formats and publication formats, by itself it cannot begin to rite the ship of science publishing.
- apathy 10y agoWell, you can't apply a technical solution to a social problem and expect it to stick, but the former can make the latter easier to fix by removing (some) inertia. The GitHub approach (free for open, pay for private) seems sensible. I worry sometimes whether that is sustainable for GitHub, but given the competition out there (e.g. Overleaf, which I use quite regularly), I'm hopeful it will work out.