![]() Citations and references were, frankly, a mess.Īt some point in this painful process, the document was exported to Word because some poor colleague had to use EndNote to compile all the references. Unfortunately this was not the case for academics. That was back in 2011 and by then Google Docs already had impressively solved the problem of collaborative writing. I was not alone, more than 10 others were writing at the same time in a Google Doc. I remember only too well editing the manuscript and supplementary text on a weekend right before the deadline for the paper submission of the ModENCODE project. With a background in genomics, I’ve personally been part of several big consortia. ![]() How do you write a paper with hundreds of authors in the first place? Even if only 10% of 200 authors of a paper actually take part in the writing there’s the not insignificant we are faced with the problem of 20 people editing the same document. ![]() ![]() However, we’re more interested in the practical aspects of this debate. ![]()
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