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The motivation behind creating Authorea has been to help streamline scientific collaboration in writing any flavor of scientific documentation, notably research papers aimed at passing peer-review and getting published as scientific proceedings. While the authorship and submission experience comes first, a goal that comes in a close second place is to also increase the transparency of the entire scientific process, using the final publication as a ``looking glass'' into the practices and data collection which happened behind the scenes.  The core of the transparency problem is that we are still using the original publishing metaphor for documents, dating back to the innovations of 16th century Galileo Galilei, while simultaneously working on 21st century projects which are potentially large scale, high-dimensional, multi-author and/or internationally distributed. The usual scientific document submitted to academic venues today is still oriented towards the printed page, remains opaque to the underlying data, of which it presents static snapshots, and is constrained by page count and margin sizes.  This disconnect between experimental results and publications allows room for unintentional bias and omissions to sneak in, while making it difficult for reviewers to verify, and follow-up experiments to continue the work in question.  \subsection{Facets of Transparency}  We offer a brief enumeration of the positive impact of the transparency of methodology and data on the scientific process: