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Overleaf

Topic: Software

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Short description: Cloud-based LaTeX editor
Overleaf
Overleaf Logo.svg
Screenshot of Overleaf.png
Overleaf running as a PWA on Windows 11
Original author(s)John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller
Repositoryhttps://github.com/overleaf/
TypeWeb application
LicenseAGPLv3
Websitehttps://www.overleaf.com/

Overleaf is a collaborative cloud-based LaTeX editor used for writing, editing and publishing scientific documents.[1][2]

It partners with a wide range of scientific publishers to provide official journal LaTeX templates, and direct submission links.[3][4][5]

Overleaf was conceived by John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller, who started developing it in 2011[6] as WriteLaTeX, through their company WriteLaTeX Limited.[7][8][9][10][11] Both are mathematicians and were inspired by their own experiences in academia to create a better solution for collaborative scientific writing.[12][13] They launched a beta version of Overleaf on 16 January 2014, at the first #FuturePub event, held at the British Library in London.[14][15]

After merging with ShareLaTeX in 2017, they released Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform.[16]

History

Overleaf was selected as one of the ten teams who participated to the 2013 Summer's Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) accelerator programme.[17][18][19] That program started on the July 1, 2013, and lasted for 3 months.[20][21][22] The Demo Day of that BGV 2013 Summer program was held on the September 19, 2013.[23]

The company received strategic investment from Digital Science in 2014.[24][25][26][27] Overleaf won Innovative Internet Business at the 2014 Nominet Internet Awards,[28] and featured 99th in SyndicateRoom's 2018 list of Britain's top 100 fastest-growing business.[29]

Overleaf has been discussed as a tool for writing scientific publications in Nature,[30] Science,[31] Red Hat's opensource.com[32] and the German IT magazine Heise Online.[33] "In 2017, CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, adopted Overleaf as its preferred collaborative authoring platform."[30][34]

Overleaf provides templates for submission to scientific journals and conferences. For example, the IEEE[35] and Springer[36] (incl. Nature[37]) 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.[38][39][16] This led to the creation of Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform hosted at overleaf.com.[16]

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”.[40][41]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Write papers like a modern scientist (use Overleaf or Google Docs + Paperpile)". https://simplystatistics.org/2016/04/21/writing. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  2. ↑ "Overleaf - About us". https://www.overleaf.com/about. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  3. ↑ "ScholarOne Partner Program". https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/scholarone-partner-program/. Retrieved 18 November 2019. 
  4. ↑ "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. 
  5. ↑ 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. 
  6. ↑ "WriteLaTeX limited". https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08343637. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  7. ↑ "WriteLaTeX limited". https://opengovuk.com/company/08343637. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  8. ↑ "WriteLaTeX limited". https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/08343637-writelatex-limited. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  9. ↑ "WriteLaTeX limited". https://app.duedil.com/company/gb/08343637/writelatex-limited. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  10. ↑ "WriteLaTeX has built a Cloud-based collaborative paper writing platform for academics". https://startupbeat.com/writelatex-qa-id3915/13514. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  11. ↑ Budrikis, Zoe (10 May 2019). "Interactions: John Hammersley". http://blogs.nature.com/onyourwavelength/2019/05/10/interactions-john-hammersley/. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  12. ↑ King, George (2 July 2015). "The Overleaf Founder Story". https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/the-overleaf-founder-story. Retrieved 18 November 2019. 
  13. ↑ Freyfogle, Ed (17 January 2014). "The #futurepub event" (in en). https://freyfogle.com/post/73565925098/the-futurepub-event. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  14. ↑ 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. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 
  15. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 "ShareLaTeX is now part of Overleaf". https://www.sharelatex.com. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  16. ↑ "Announcing BGV Summer 2013 Cohort!". 24 June 2013. https://bethnalgreenventures.com/blog/announcing-bgv-summer-2013-cohort. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  17. ↑ "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. Retrieved 7 July 2013. 
  18. ↑ "WriteLaTeX joining forces with Bethnal Green Ventures and Nesta". 25 June 2013. https://www.overleaf.com/blog/31. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  19. ↑ "The Bethnal Green Ventures Incubator opens for entries". 17 March 2013. https://startacus.net/culture/the-bethnal-green-ventures-incubator-opens-for-entries. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  20. ↑ "We're back!". 14 February 2013. https://bethnalgreenventures.com/blog/were-back. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  21. ↑ Miller, Paul (14 February 2013). "Bethnal Green Ventures — some good news". https://paulmiller.org/2013/02/14/bethnal-green-ventures-some-good-news. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  22. ↑ "And suddenly… it's almost DEMO DAY!". 17 September 2013. https://bethnalgreenventures.com/blog/and-suddenly-its-demo-day. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  23. ↑ 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. Retrieved 9 March 2020. 
  24. ↑ "Digital Science invests in WriteLaTeX" (in en). 23 July 2014. https://www.researchinformation.info/news/digital-science-invests-writelatex. Retrieved 9 March 2020. 
  25. ↑ 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. Retrieved 9 March 2020. 
  26. ↑ Page, Benedicte (24 July 2014). "Digital Science in WriteLaTeX investment" (in en). https://www.thebookseller.com/news/digital-science-writelatex-investment. Retrieved 9 March 2020. 
  27. ↑ "Nominet Internet Award winners 2014 revealed" (in en). 3 July 2014. https://www.nominet.uk/nominet-internet-award-winners-2014-revealed. Retrieved 8 January 2020. 
  28. ↑ "Britain's Top 100 fastest-growing businesses 2018" (in en). https://www.syndicateroom.com/guides-and-reports/100-fastest-growing-companies-uk-2018. Retrieved 8 January 2020. 
  29. ↑ 30.0 30.1 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. 
  30. ↑ 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. 
  31. ↑ 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. 
  32. ↑ "LaTeX im Browser: Overleaf und ShareLaTeX fusionieren" (in de). https://www.heise.de/ix/meldung/LaTeX-im-Browser-Overleaf-und-ShareLaTeX-fusionieren-3779700.html. 
  33. ↑ 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. 
  34. ↑ "What is Overleaf?". https://supportcenter.ieee.org/app/answers/detail/a_id/1300/~/what-is-overleaf?. 
  35. ↑ "Write your article using Overleaf | Springer" (in en). https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/overleaf. 
  36. ↑ "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. 
  37. ↑ "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. Retrieved 18 November 2019. 
  38. ↑ "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. Retrieved 8 March 2020. 
  39. ↑ "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. 
  40. ↑ 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. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1145/3411763.3443455. ISBN 9781450380959. 



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