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Re:Overleaf: collaborative LaTeX-based writing and publishing by udev on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:42AM (#9611237)
This is great for students, for terms papers, reports, etc.

People who advance science as we know it, and those who target big journals (Nature, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, etc.) are unlikely to want to store their manuscript on a third party website like this.

But it is true that the former group is significantly larger.

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Re:Overleaf: collaborative LaTeX-based writing and publishing by wodenokoto on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:13AM (#9611430)
Yet we recommend them to save it on github.
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Re:Overleaf: collaborative LaTeX-based writing and publishing by arcanus on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @01:42PM (#9613055)
Recommend, perhaps.

I never put a paper up on github until after it has been published, and I've seen considerable push-back from fellow scientists at the suggestion we consider it.

Despite the pervasive influence of github, it is quite easy to spawn local git/svn/hg repos.

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