I'm Alberto Pepe, the guy challenging Elsevier. I'm Co-Founder of Authorea - a budding collaboration and publishing platform for academics to write, share and discuss research and scholarly articles for free and in real time. Ask Me Anything!

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Hello r/science! My name is Alberto Pepe; my co-founder, Dr. Nathan Jenkins and I created Authorea after we both grew disappointed by the slow, inefficient, and obsolete ways by which research papers are written and disseminated.

We believe:

• in breaking the cycle of the individual in academia and squashing the collective obsession with academic rankings;
• that open science and open scholarship will positively shape the future of academic publishing and increase the rate of scientific discovery;
• in researchers retaining ownership of their work and all individuals having access to their work for free (even if experiment 'failed');
• in the 'paper of the future'; whereby a static paper is no longer viewed as an acceptable form of submission, rather a digital-born format that allows the reader to access and interact with the most important elements of a researcher's work: the data and code.

I’ll be back at 1 pm EST (10 am PST, 6 pm UTC) to answer your questions, ask me anything!

">I'm Alberto Pepe, the guy challenging Elsevier. I'm Co-Founder of Authorea - a budding collaboration and publishing platform for academics to write, share and discuss research and scholarly articles for free and in real time. Ask Me Anything!