At Authorea, we want to change the way scientists communicate and share their research. This includes giving all the information behind figures a place to live: by letting readers and reviewers access your data and code, your results can be easily reproduced and extended. ADDING DATA TO ARTICLES It’s really easy to incorporate Jupyter Notebooks as well as datasets in your articles. This guide illustrates the step-by-step procedure to easily add any arbitrary dataset to an Authorea article, by navigating to the Data folder, and adding files there (they get added to the Authorea’s underlying Git repository). ADDING DATA “BEHIND” FIGURES You can also associate data and Jupyer Notebooks to a specific figure. This guide illustrates the step-by-step procedure for adding a figure to an Authorea document and attaching data and Jupyer Notebooks to it. Whenever Authorea documents detect “data behind a figure”, a data flag icon appears next to the figure, as for the figure below. The icon is meant to alert you, your collaborators and readers that some data is available behind the figure.

Authorea allows researchers to include interactive figures from a variety of data analysis and visualization tools, including Carto. This document is intended to show how a Carto file looks when embedded in an Authorea document. To embed your Carto files in Authorea docs, you can follow step-by-step instructions here.

Authorea allows researchers to include interactive figures from a variety of data analysis and visualization tools, including Plotly. This document is intended to show how a Plotly file looks when embedded in an Authorea document. To embed your Plotly files in Authorea docs, you can follow step-by-step instructions here.

Authorea allows researchers to include interactive figures from a variety of data analysis and visualization tools, including D3.js. This document is intended to show how a D3.js file looks when embedded in an Authorea document. To embed your D3.js files in Authorea docs, you can follow step-by-step instructions here.

Hello, and welcome to Authorea!👋  We're happy to have you join us on this journey towards making writing and publishing smoother, data-driven, interactive, open, and simply awesome. This document is a short guide on how to get started with Authorea, specifically how to take advantage of some of our powerful tools. Of course, feedback and questions are not only welcome, but encouraged--just hit the comment icon at the top of the document 💬and join the conversation.The BasicsAuthorea is a document editing and publishing system built primarily for researchers. It allows you to collaborate on documents and publish them easily. Each Authorea document can include data, interactive figures, and code. But first, let's get started! 1. Sign up.If you're not already signed up, do so at authorea.com/signup.  Tip: if you are part of an organization, sign up with your organizational email.  2. First stepsDuring the signup process you will be asked a few questions: your location, your title, etc. You will be also prompted to join a group. Groups are awesome! They allow you to become part of a shared document workspace. Tip: during signup, join a group or create a new one for your team. Overall, we suggest you fill out your profile information to get the best possible Authorea experience and to see if any of your friends are already on the platform. If you don't do it initially during sign up, don't worry; you can always edit your user information in your settings later on.Once you've landed on your profile page (see below). There are a few things you should immediately do:Add a profile picture. You've got a great face, show it to the world :) For reference, please see Pete, our chief dog officer (CDO), below. Add personal and group information. If you haven't added any personal information, like a bio, a group affiliation, your ORCID, or your location, do it! You might find some people at your organization already part of Authorea, plus it is a great way to build your online footprint, which is always good for getting jobs.

The arXiv is the most popular preprint repository in the world. Since its inception in 1991, the arXiv has allowed researchers to freely share publication-ready articles prior to formal peer review. The growth and the popularity of the arXiv emerged as a result of new technologies that made document creation and dissemination easy, and cultural practices that incentivized collaboration and data sharing. The arXiv represents a unique place in the history of research communication and the Web itself, however it has arguably changed very little since its creation.  Here we look at the strengths and weaknesses of arXiv in an effort to identify what possible improvements can be made based on new technologies not previously available. Based on this, we argue that a modern arXiv might in fact not look at all like the arXiv of today.  

At Authorea we're constantly thinking about how to make research writing easier, faster, and more robust from initial idea all the way through publication. Beyond stressing over making Authorea an impeccable experience and tool for researchers, we also like to think outside of the box for new innovative features that may not be on our immediate radar but are things we'd like to focus on at some point in the near future. Authorea X, if you like.Today, we'd like to ask for your feedback on one of the new ideas we're working on. We actively sought your feedback when we redesigned our new editor and would like to continue to involve researchers in the development of Authorea as much as possible. After all, we're building a great experience for you!In our latest brainstorming session, we discussed how we could help researchers improve their writing beyond what we're currently doing.  Specifically, how could we make the writing process one informed by data?  We identified a few key things we thought were important to the researcher based on requests as well as on our own observations and came up with what we're tentatively calling: "the Authorea Fitbit of research writing."  The Authorea Fitbit of researchWhile there are numerous metrics aimed at measuring the output of a researcher and the impact of their work \cite{Abbott_2010}, there is no easy way to track how a researcher is writing.  Some researchers have started manually keeping track of their writing progress on Twitter like the online #acwrimo community or the "thesis-writing tracker" by Achintya Rao of CERN but this is somewhat laborious and really just added work.  We think we can do better than a daily tally.  We can automatically track your writing patterns and share with you in a useful dashboard your typical behavior as well as your progress over a certain period of time. With such a system we would hope to be able to provide answers to the following:What time do I write most frequently at?  What are the most common words that I use?  How frequently do I write?How many words am I writing per day, per week, and per year?These are the things that we think researchers may like to know and thus we started quickly mocking up what this could look like on Authorea.  Our mocks are just initial sketches, heavily inspired by Github, and we hope, with your feedback, that they could become something very useful to researchers.  What would you track about your writing if you could? Tweet at us @authorea or leave a comment on Facebook or this article! 

We've been getting asked more and more if Authorea can be used to not only write and preprint manuscripts but as a place to publish, collect peer reviews, and in essence, run a journal.  The short answer is yes, we're in the process of rolling out some experimental features to allow collections to (1) receive submissions from the public, (2) enable editor and reviewer roles to filter submissions and provide peer review (anonymized or not), (3) publish accepted manuscripts alongside peer review reports (transparent peer review).An example of such collection is https://journal.sketchingscience.org/Interested in creating and running a collection on Authorea? Here's how to get started.Create a user account on Authorea Create a group/collection: https://authorea.com/inst/newWrite to us at hi@authorea.com so that we can turn on submissions and peer review features for your collectionWrite to us at hi@authorea.com if you would like your custom domain/URL (such as https://journal.sketchingscience.org/)  Instruct your authors to "submit" to your collection/journal by using the Submit button.Use the peer review module features to screen submissions and publish approved manuscripts in your collection with a DOI!Note: some of these features are paid features.

"If you want to be one year behind, don’t read bioRxiv” – Jeff LeekWelcome to PREreview! On PREreview you can collaboratively write reviews of preprints. This project was born in April 2017 as a collaboration eetween Samantha Hindle and Daniela Saderi, scientists and ASAPbio Ambassadors, with help from Josh Nicholson, at the time working for Authorea. ASAPbio (Accelerating Science And Publication in biology) is a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the word about preprints to accelerate scientific discovery.As of October 2018, we are proud to have become an official project fiscally sponsored by Code for Science and Society. Learn more in this blog post.We are also proud to announce that we have received funding from the Sloan Foundation and the Wellcome Trust to continue to grow our community. Reed more here and stay tuned for some exciting updates! Our Mission PREreview seeks to diversify peer review in the academic community by crowdsourcing pre-publication feedback to improve the quality of published scientific output, and to train early-career researchers (ECRs) in how to  collaboratively review others' scientific work. We want to facilitate a cultural shift in which every scientist posts, reads, and engages with preprints as standard practice in scholarly publishing. We see PREreview as a hub to support and nurture the growth of a community that openly exchanges timely, constructive feedback on emerging scientific outputs. We believe that by empowering ECRs through peer review training programs, thereby increasing the diversity of researchers involved in the peer review process, PREreview will help establish a healthier and more sustainable culture around research dissemination and evaluation.