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\begin{document}

\title{Alternatives to Google Docs}


 \author{\href{https://www.authorea.com/users/77723}{Authorea Help}}


\date{\today}

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\section*{Are you looking for an alternative to Google
Docs?}

{\label{462039}}

Choosing the right word processor for your documents is very important.
While Google Docs and Authorea are similar in some ways, Google Docs is
a great tool for writing general purpose drafts whereas Authorea is more
appropriate if you are writing a scholarly manuscript, a student essay,
a math heavy manuscript, a technical blog post, or a data-driven
document. We list here a few key comparison points that show how Google
Docs and Authorea are different.

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\section*{1. Bibliographic management}

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Whether you are citing a paper on the flying ice cube~\cite{Harvey_1998}
or a paper by~\citet{28069665}, Authorea lets you easily add citations
to bibliographic references in a couple of clicks. The Authorea citation
manager lets you search millions of scholarly papers and add and format
them quickly. A bibliography, listing all references at the end of the
document, is built automatically for you.

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\caption{{Authorea's citation manager
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\section*{2. Mathematical equations, LaTeX and Markdown
support}

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Do you need to write formulae and heavy mathematical notation in your
paper? Or maybe you need to write entire parts of your paper in LaTeX?
Similar to Google Docs, Authorea's rich text editor is a true WYSIWYG
editor (what you see is what you get), but it gives you the ability to
include mathematics as well as LaTeX and Markdown. If you have to type a
simple (yet beautiful) equation such as \(e^{i\pi}+1=0\), or a full
fledged equation in LaTeX, such as eq.{\ref{eqn:lat}}
(below), you can! Read this tutorial:
\href{https://intercom.help/authorea/write/structure-of-a-document/how-to-write-mathematical-equations-and-formulae}{How
to add mathematical equations and formulae}.~

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\caption{{Authorea's interface lets you add mathematics using an equation editor
or you can input raw LaTeX.
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\section*{3. Direct integration with publishers: format citations and
submit to journals in one
click}

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At any point in time in your writing process,
\href{https://intercom.help/authorea/publish/export/exporting-a-document}{you
can export a version of your document (in PDF, Word, or LaTeX)}
formatted in the style (including citation style!) of your choice (e.g.
"\emph{download a 1-column line-numbered 12pt version of your paper
with~APA citations and figures positioned at the end of the document"}).
Why is this important? \textbf{If you submit a paper to Journal X and
get rejected, you don't have to spend a full day reformatting your paper
and citations for Journal Y}. Authorea does it for you, in one click.
~Additionally, Authorea is now integrated with the top journal
publishers, so that you don't have to worry about exporting your work to
PDF or Word at all. You can submit it automatically to the journal of
choice, in one click. Additionally, you can publish right on Authorea
(yes, \href{https://intercom.help/authorea/publish}{you can get a DOI
for your manuscript}!)

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\includegraphics[width=1.00\columnwidth]{figures/publish-1120/publish-1120}
\caption{{Publish your articles online and in the world's leading journals
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\section*{4. Built on Git, for superior version
control}

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Every Authorea document is a Git repository you can interact with (i.e.
push from, pull to, fork, etc). Our Git back-end~has two major
advantages: 1) All changes made to Authorea documents are tracked by Git
i.e. one of the most robust version control systems. No longer will you
need to track changes in Word. Version history of any document is
integrated within the document itself. 2) Since every document in
Authorea is a Git repository, you can include more than just text and
images: data, code, videos, data visualizations, notebooks, workflows.

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\caption{{Authorea's History view is like track changes on steroids, fully built
on Git
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\section*{5. Data hosting}

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Since every document in Authorea is a Git repository, you can include in
it more than just text and images: data, code, videos, data
visualizations, notebooks, workflows. Authorea creates web-native
documents that allow you to \textbf{integrate data, code and all the
material needed to reproduce scientific results}. This enables
transparency and reproducibility, the very foundations of the scientific
method. Authorea can allow the long-awaited leap that
will~\href{https://www.authorea.com/107282}{push~the scientific paper
into~the 21st century}. Figure~{\ref{626250}}, below,
has data associated with it (see the data flag in the top left!)

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\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=1.00\columnwidth]{figures/open-access-costs/open-access-costs}
\caption{{A chart showing a temporal distribution with (random!) data. Data is
included ``behind'' the figure (click on the data flag on the top left)
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}}
\end{center}
\end{figure}



\section*{6. Semantic, structured
documents}

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Authorea is primarily built for scholarly articles, and it knows what
scholarly articles look like. So every article you create has a semantic
structure: a title, a list of authors (with affiliations), a number of
labeled paragraphs/sections, labeled figures, tables, and equations,
citations and a bibliography at the end. Some documents may also have an
abstract and keywords. This structure allows you to quickly and easily
refer to any part of your document. In the future, we will be able to
use this semantic markup in even more interesting ways.

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\includegraphics[width=0.98\columnwidth]{figures/reference1/reference1}
\caption{{Authorea's referencing tool lets you ``cite'' any part of your document:
sections, tables, figures, equations and more
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\section*{7. Authorea is the social open science platform of the
future}

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Google Docs is an editor. Authorea is more than that: it is a social
open science platform. Scholars on Authorea have profile pages,
including bios and statistics. Their institutions also have
dedicated~pages and collaboration statistics. Authors can keep track of
their academic connections and
\href{https://www.authorea.com/browse}{discover new content}.
\textbf{Authorea is} \textbf{the place where the next generation of open
fact-based research will be created, consumed, shared, and reviewed}.\selectlanguage{english}
\begin{figure}[h!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=1.00\columnwidth]{figures/artboard/artboard}
\caption{{A glimpse into the future of Authorea: a powerful search engine for
scientific research
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}}
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\end{figure}

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\section*{8. On premise Enterprise installations for maximum security and
privacy}

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Do you, or your institution, manage confidential data and content that
cannot be hosted on the cloud? Authorea offers~Enterprise licenses that
let you run a white-labeled instance of Authorea that is locally hosted
or deployed on your private cloud, to satisfy organizational network
security requirements. Find out more about
\href{https://www.authorea.com/user_plans}{pricing and plans}.

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