For all the clamor about Web 2.0, there still is not to this day a fully integrated collaboration tool that would allow academics to work simultaneously and seamlessly with RAs or students, even as this becomes more pressing by the day. The existing tools are either 1/ expensive and software specific (sharepoint), or 2/ free, online and collaborative but with limited editing functions and, especially, no integration with popular bibliography editors such as Zotero or Endnote (also, they create problems when reverting to Word which, for most journals' purposes, is still the standard when it comes to submission), or 3/ allowing collaboration with the main word processors by allowing sharing of files but not simultaneous editing (Webdrive).
Only a company like Onedrum so far seems to offer something like what academics need. It's just a pity they don't offer Word collaboration yet.
Only a company like Onedrum so far seems to offer something like what academics need. It's just a pity they don't offer Word collaboration yet.
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You've an interesting perspective on this. What would be on your ideal feature list?
I find that the sharing features of Mendeley and its integration with Word get me most of where I'm trying to get, but that's from a writer's perspective.
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