Matteo Cantiello edited Authorea.tex  about 9 years ago

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While the need to publish creates a huge inertia for scholars to move away from the current paradigm, Authorea provides an excellent testbed to experiment with \textbf{Open Peer Review}.  A first experiment of this kind is undergoing: a \href{https://www.authorea.com/19261}{paper written on Authorea} was submitted to a major journal and, on the same day, to the well known preprint repository \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07779}{arXiv}. This is not news, and it's done routinely by many scholars every day. However while the arXiv is a great tool for sharing research before it's published or even reviewed, it does not allow to comment or leave feedback on the content. That's why the arXiv preprint was linked to its Authorea version, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07779}{Authorea version},  where readers can leave feedback using a powerful commenting system. So ultimately the place where the paper was written becomes also the place where the paper is discussed by the community. Since Authorea is also built for transparency and reproducibility, allowing to include the data and the code used during the research process, it is the ideal place for an effective review to take place. This makes the review process more natural and seamless. The feedback left on Authorea becomes part of the paper itself. Doubts raised by an open reviewer can be answered by the community, ideas or suggestions become commentaries that can trigger future investigations. The important point is that all this work is not lost, and becomes part of the legacy of a paper.