Solutions

Under the umbrella of Wiley Open Research, Authorea is joining Wiley and Atypon colleagues, as well as researchers across the globe and across disciplines to propose and build effective and beneficial ways to boost scientific progress in this time of crisis. We are scientists, publishers, graduate students, research assistants, funders, and technologists. 
This is a live document. Over the next few weeks, we will propose a number of challenges and solutions, and list them below. We welcome new contributors and new ideas. Feel free to participate by commenting on this document or any of the documents linked below. 

1. Writing scientific manuscripts together, remotely

Times like these provide a great opportunity to get some scientific writing done. We mention below some tools that allow collaborative composition of research documents. 
Manuscripts.io is a powerful and simple authoring tool for complex documents. Manuscripts.io features very advanced science-specific features such as inline execution of computational notebooks, direct submission to journals, project management features, and complex citation styles. Manuscripts.io is free to use and Open Source. The Manuscripts.io editor is being integrated into Authorea in the next few months.
Overleaf is a very popular and powerful editor for LaTeX. It enables simultaneous collaboration on LaTeX documents and is specifically suited to collaboratively produce PDF documents with mathematical notation and advanced formatting. In response to the Covid pandemic, Overleaf is temporarily giving Professional Accounts, free of charge, to any person in need of a collaborative, online authoring tool for their work (more here).
Authorea was built exactly to accelerate scientific discovery by boosting remote online collaboration. The mission and importance of research tools like Authorea is clearer than ever, in times like these, when most researchers are working from home. Authorea features a word processor (with Rich Text, LaTeX and Markdown support) that enables multiple authors to work together on the preparation of scientific manuscripts, blog posts, white papers, posters, code, data, and computational notebooks. The blog post you are reading was written in and is hosted on Authorea. Authorea is entirely free to use for individuals who use it for academic purposes (students, as well as educators). Find out here how to get a free account.