How researchers communicate their results is arguably as important as the results themselves. And yet, research communication has changed very little over the last 350 years. In this talk I will discuss how we're introducing a new model and mode of communication for researchers at Authorea. Authorea, a collaborative editor for researchers, allows authors to write rich data-driven manuscripts on the web–articles that natively offer readers a dynamic, interactive experience with an article’s full text, images, data, visualizations, and code–paving the road to increased data sharing, data reuse, research reproducibility, and Open Science.

1. Data-driven, Interactive
Scholarly Publications
with Authorea
Alberto Pepe

2. How many people in the
audience actively write
and publish research
papers?
QUESTION

3. Authorea allows
scientists to include
interactive data-driven
visualization in their
scholarly publications
IN A NUTSHELL

4. …they produce
21st century
research
…written up on
20th century
tools
…packaged in a
17th century
format
WHAT SCIENTISTS
DO

7. What would
Galileo do?

8. Pepe A, Goodman A, Muench A, Crosas M, Erdmann C (2014) How Do Astronomers Share Data? Reliability and Persistence of
Datasets Linked in AAS Publications and a Qualitative Study of Data Practices among US Astronomers. PLoS ONE 9(8): e104798.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104798
LINKING TO DATASETS IS NOT
GOOD ENOUGH

12. Re: Paper_Version_Final_Final_1_David.docx
NO MORE EMAILS WITH SUBJECT

13. Authorea “tracks changes” via Git and “Smart
Merges”
VERSION CONTROL FOR
DOCUMENTS

14. Authorea https://www.authorea.com/19957
DATA “INSIDE” SCHOLARLY
ARTICLES

15. Integrates with Jupyter Notebooks, d3.js,
plotly, CartoDB and more
Authorea https://www.authorea.com/123654 Authorea https://www.authorea.com/70990
INTERACTIVE DATA-DRIVEN
SCIENCE

16. A WRITING PLATFORM FOR ALL SCHOLARS

17. LaTeX ON THE WEB, FOR THE WEB

18. Export any document to 8,269 styles
EASY JOURNAL SUBMISSION AND
FORMATTING

19. CREDIT FOR OPENNESS AND DATA SHARING
Metrics for Open Science and Data Challenges

20. ACCELERATING SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING

21. AUTHOREA IS MADE IN BROOKLYN
We’re a team of 10 working to make
science better. We are hiring.

22. Product demo at
authorea.com