UKSG Conference 2016 Breakout Session - Online authoring tools for global collaboration, John Hammersley

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Science is a global enterprise, and over two million scientific papers are written every year in collaborations that span the globe. What are the best tools and technologies that support this growing need for global collaboration? How can libraries and publishers harness these tools to help their users in these efforts? This session will explore new technologies to facilitate global, interdisciplinary collaboration and how some publishers and libraries are taking advantage of these tools.

Education

Collaborative writing, reviewing
and publishing tools
Dr John Hammersley, Co-founder and CEO

4,000,000 documents
350,000 authors
10,000 institutions
in 3 years

The internet is transforming research and collaboration

Source: Knowledge, networks and nations. Global scientific collaboration in the 21st century - The Royal Society - 2011

• Multiple versions of the same document
• Long email chains
• Formatting & typesetting
• Maintaining references
• Long revision cycles
Endless problems

“ It really streamlined the process of writing the paper…
I was happy to find a 21st century solution. ”
Artem Kaznatcheev
Researcher at McGill University

Overleaf at Stanford University
Use at Stanford
Before Trial
(Dec 2014)
Today
(Jan 2016) Increase
Confirmed users 375 2065 450%
Projects by users 1,896 13,655 620%

Metrics: providing data on usage, collaborations & outputs

Customizable editor for journals and institutions

Custom submission links with:
• Automated transfer of files and
metadata
• Automated pre-submission checks
• Direct submission into systems such
as Editorial Manager, Scholar One
and eJournalPress

“The integration of Overleaf into our editorial workflow
enabled the swift processing of the authors' manuscripts
and simplified the procedure for our pre-publication checks.”

● Fast uptake: 350,000 users worldwide, free to authors.
● Direct partnerships with academic publishers, institutions &
other tools in the research workflow to streamline writing,
collaboration, submission and review.
● Provides added value to authors, editors, reviewers and
publishers.
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