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Overleaf

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Overleaf
Overleaf running as a PWA on Windows 11
Original author(s)John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller
Repositorygithub.com/overleaf/
Written inJavaScript
PlatformWeb platform
TypeWeb application
LicenseAGPLv3
Website{{{1}}}

Overleaf is software for running a collaborative cloud-based LaTeX editor used for writing, editing and publishing scientific documents. More precisely, the term "Overleaf" may refer to the free-licensed software itself, to the main website running a proprietary version of the software, or to the organisation hosting the website running the proprietary software version.[1][2][3]

The Overleaf organisation works with several scientific publishers to provide official journal LaTeX templates and direct submission links.[4][5][6]

The Overleaf software was conceived by John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller, who started developing it in 2011[7] as WriteLaTeX, through their company WriteLaTeX Limited.[8][9][10][11][12] Both are mathematicians and were inspired by their own experiences in academia to create a better solution for collaborative scientific writing.[13][14] They launched a beta version of Overleaf on 16 January 2014, at the first #FuturePub event, held at the British Library in London.[15][16]

After merging with ShareLaTeX in 2017, the developers released Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform.[17]

History

Overleaf was selected as one of the ten teams who participated to the 2013 Summer's Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) accelerator programme.[18][19][20] That program started on the July 1, 2013, and lasted for 3 months.[21][22][23] The Demo Day of that BGV 2013 Summer program was held on the September 19, 2013.[24]

The Overleaf organisation received strategic investment from Digital Science in 2014.[25][26][27][28] Overleaf won Innovative Internet Business at the 2014 Nominet Internet Awards,[29] and featured 99th in SyndicateRoom's 2018 list of Britain's top 100 fastest-growing business.[30]

Overleaf was described as a tool for writing scientific publications in Nature,[31] Science,[32] Red Hat's opensource.com[33] and the German IT magazine Heise Online.[34] In 2017, CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, provided the proprietary, hosted version of Overleaf to its members. A survey found that Overleaf was more popular than Authorea and doDoc.[31][35]

Overleaf provides templates for submission to scientific journals and conferences. For example, the IEEE[36] and Springer[37] (including Nature[38]) mention the possibility for submission using Overleaf.

Merge with ShareLaTeX

On 20 July 2017, Overleaf acquired ShareLaTeX to create a combined community of over two million users.[39][40][17] This led to the creation of Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform hosted at overleaf.com.[17]

In May 2021, Lees-Miller (Overleaf), Paulo Reis (Overleaf), and Sven Laqua (Digital Science) were awarded the SIGCHI Best Case Study Award at the ACM CHI2021 Conference for their case study "Merging SaaS Products In A User-Centered Way: A Case Study of Overleaf and ShareLaTeX".[41][42]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Write papers like a modern scientist (use Overleaf or Google Docs + Paperpile)". https://simplystatistics.org/2016/04/21/writing. 
  2. ↑ "Overleaf - About us". https://www.overleaf.com/about. 
  3. ↑  , Wikidata Q133891194
  4. ↑ "ScholarOne Partner Program". https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/scholarone-partner-program/. 
  5. ↑ "New partnership between AIP Publishing and Overleaf provides an enhanced authoring experience". AIP Publishing. 22 October 2018. https://publishing.aip.org/about/news/new-partnership-between-aip-publishing-and-overleaf-provides-an-enhanced-authoring-experience. 
  6. ↑ Hammersley, John (Winter 2015). "Collaborative Writing" (in en). Journal of Electronic Publishing 18 (1). doi:10.3998/3336451.0018.116. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0018.116?view=text;rgn=main. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  7. ↑ "WriteLaTeX limited". https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08343637. 
  8. ↑ "WriteLaTeX limited". https://opengovuk.com/company/08343637. 
  9. ↑ "WriteLaTeX limited". https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/08343637-writelatex-limited. 
  10. ↑ "WriteLaTeX limited". https://app.duedil.com/company/gb/08343637/writelatex-limited. 
  11. ↑ "WriteLaTeX has built a Cloud-based collaborative paper writing platform for academics". https://startupbeat.com/writelatex-qa-id3915/13514. 
  12. ↑ Budrikis, Zoe (10 May 2019). "Interactions: John Hammersley". http://blogs.nature.com/onyourwavelength/2019/05/10/interactions-john-hammersley/. 
  13. ↑ King, George (2 July 2015). "The Overleaf Founder Story". https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/the-overleaf-founder-story. 
  14. ↑ Freyfogle, Ed (17 January 2014). "The #futurepub event" (in en). https://freyfogle.com/post/73565925098/the-futurepub-event. 
  15. ↑ Mulvany, Ian (18 January 2014). "WriteLateX/Overleaf launch event at the British Library" (in en). http://scholarly-comms-product-blog.com/2014/01/18/writelatex-overleaf-launch. 
  16. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "ShareLaTeX is now part of Overleaf". https://www.sharelatex.com. 
  17. ↑ "Announcing BGV Summer 2013 Cohort!". 24 June 2013. https://bethnalgreenventures.com/blog/announcing-bgv-summer-2013-cohort. 
  18. ↑ "Teams announced for Bethnal Green Ventures Summer 2013". 24 June 2013. http://www.nesta.org.uk/blogs/policy_innovation_blog/teams_announced_for_bethnal_green_ventures_summer_2013. 
  19. ↑ "WriteLaTeX joining forces with Bethnal Green Ventures and Nesta". 25 June 2013. https://www.overleaf.com/blog/31. 
  20. ↑ "The Bethnal Green Ventures Incubator opens for entries". 17 March 2013. https://startacus.net/culture/the-bethnal-green-ventures-incubator-opens-for-entries. 
  21. ↑ "We're back!". 14 February 2013. https://bethnalgreenventures.com/blog/were-back. 
  22. ↑ Miller, Paul (14 February 2013). "Bethnal Green Ventures — some good news". https://paulmiller.org/2013/02/14/bethnal-green-ventures-some-good-news. 
  23. ↑ "And suddenly… it's almost DEMO DAY!". 17 September 2013. https://bethnalgreenventures.com/blog/and-suddenly-its-demo-day. 
  24. ↑ Shepherd, Cameron (23 July 2014). "Digital Science Invests in London start-up WriteLaTeX" (in en). https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/digital-science-invests-in-london-start-up-writelatex. 
  25. ↑ "Digital Science invests in WriteLaTeX" (in en). 23 July 2014. https://www.researchinformation.info/news/digital-science-invests-writelatex. 
  26. ↑ Zhou, Larry (23 July 2014). "WriteLaTeX picks up funding to push its collaborative academic writing tool" (in en). https://venturebeat.com/2014/07/23/writelatex-picks-up-funding-to-keep-pushing-its-collaborative-academic-writing-tool. 
  27. ↑ Page, Benedicte (24 July 2014). "Digital Science in WriteLaTeX investment" (in en). https://www.thebookseller.com/news/digital-science-writelatex-investment. 
  28. ↑ "Nominet Internet Award winners 2014 revealed" (in en). 3 July 2014. https://www.nominet.uk/nominet-internet-award-winners-2014-revealed. 
  29. ↑ "Britain's Top 100 fastest-growing businesses 2018" (in en). https://www.syndicateroom.com/guides-and-reports/100-fastest-growing-companies-uk-2018. 
  30. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Perkel, Jeffrey M. (2020-03-31). "Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing" (in en). Nature 580 (7801): 154–155. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00916-6. PMID 32235940. Bibcode: 2020Natur.580..154P. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00916-6. 
  31. ↑ Pain, Elisabeth (2018-04-30). "How to write your Ph.D. thesis" (in en). https://www.science.org/content/article/how-write-your-phd-thesis. 
  32. ↑ Donnelly, Lois (3 November 2015). "A breakdown of FOSS for students and researchers in academia" (in en). https://opensource.com/education/15/11/foss-academic-research. 
  33. ↑ "LaTeX im Browser: Overleaf und ShareLaTeX fusionieren" (in de). https://www.heise.de/ix/meldung/LaTeX-im-Browser-Overleaf-und-ShareLaTeX-fusionieren-3779700.html. 
  34. ↑ Kasioumis, Nikos; Brancolini, Valeria (2019). Forti, A.; Betev, L.; Litmaath, M. et al.. eds. "Collaborative Scientific Authoring at CERN: A user-centered approach". EPJ Web of Conferences 214: 07003. doi:10.1051/epjconf/201921407003. ISSN 2100-014X. 
  35. ↑ "What is Overleaf?". https://supportcenter.ieee.org/app/answers/detail/a_id/1300/~/what-is-overleaf?. 
  36. ↑ "Write your article using Overleaf | Springer" (in en). https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/overleaf. 
  37. ↑ "Submit a LaTeX manuscript to a Springer journal using Overleaf" (in en). https://support.nature.com/en/support/solutions/articles/6000127538-submit-a-latex-manuscript-to-a-springer-journal-using-overleaf. 
  38. ↑ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". 20 July 2017. https://www.researchinformation.info/news/overleaf-and-sharelatex-join-forces-create-community-two-million. 
  39. ↑ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". 20 July 2017. https://www.sspnet.org/community/news/overleaf-and-sharelatex-join-forces-to-create-community-of-two-million. 
  40. ↑ "Merging SaaS Products In A User-Centered Way: A Case Study of Overleaf and ShareLaTeX (Conference entry)" (in en). https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2021/program/content/56988. 
  41. ↑ Reis, Paulo; Lees-Miller, John D.; Laqua, Sven (2021). "Merging SaaS Products in a User-Centered Way — A Case Study of Overleaf and ShareLaTeX" (in en). Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1145/3411763.3443455. ISBN 9781450380959. 



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