Start-up Paperpile is launching a free academic citation manager built from scratch for Google Docs. It enables scholars to write academic papers collaboratively, fully switch to the Google Apps ecosystem to manage their research library and boost productivity.
Google's free Education tools for universities are very popular. More than 70 percent of the biggest universities in the US run on Google for Education. Last month, Google announced 50 million active users on their blog. However, the adoption of Google Apps at academic institutions is not evenly distributed. While the adoption of Gmail and Calendar is ubiquitous, Docs and Drive lag far behind.
Despite Google Docs being the obvious choice for collaborative writing, important given the trend towards "hyper authorship" - with thousands of authors contributing to a paper - the critical issue of how to manage citations and references has stymied its use.
That is until now. With the release of a new free citations add-on for Google Docs, Paperpile makes reference management as easy and collaborative as Google Docs itself, offering academics everything needed to write a submission ready manuscript or grant.
In a recent survey of Paperpile users, 84% fully replaced their old desktop software with it - 71% previously used EndNote and/or Mendeley. They use Paperpile to write documents that are vital to their career, funding or degree: 55% to write articles for peer reviewed journals; 25% for grant applications; 21% for PhD or Master's theses and 12% for books or book chapters.
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