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{{short description|A cloud-based LaTeX editor}}
{{short description|Cloud-based LaTeX editor}}
{{Infobox Software
{{Infobox software
| name = Overleaf
| title = Overleaf
| screenshot = Screenshot of Overleaf.png
| logo = Cib-overleaf (CoreUI Icons v1.0.0).svg
| screenshot = Overleaf v2 editing page.jpg
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| author = John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller
| screenshot size = 270
| repo = https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf
| caption = Overleaf running as a [[Progressive web app|PWA]] on [[Windows 11]]
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| genre = [[Web application]]
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| author = John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller
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| license = [[AGPLv3]]
| website = [https://www.overleaf.com/ www.overleaf.com]
| repo = https://github.com/overleaf/
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| genre = [[Web application]]
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| website = https://www.overleaf.com/
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'''Overleaf''' is a collaborative cloud-based [[LaTeX]] editor used for writing, editing and publishing scientific documents.<ref name="SimplyStatistics" /><ref name="OverleafAbout" />
'''Overleaf''' is a collaborative cloud-based [[LaTeX]] editor used for writing, editing and publishing scientific documents.<ref name="SimplyStatistics" /><ref name="OverleafAbout" />


It partners with a wide range of scientific publishers to provide official journal LaTeX templates, and direct submission links.<ref name="ScholarOne" /><ref name="AIP" /><ref name="OverleafDirectSubmissionLink" />
It partners with a wide range of scientific publishers to provide official journal LaTeX templates, and direct submission links.<ref name="ScholarOne" /><ref name="AIP" /><ref name="OverleafDirectSubmissionLink" />


Overleaf was originally launched in 2012 as WriteLaTeX by the company WriteLaTeX Limited, co-founded by John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller.<ref name="CompaniesHouseGovUK" /><ref name="OpenGovUK" /><ref name="Endole" /><ref name="DueDil" /><ref name="StartupBeat" /> Both are mathematicians and were inspired by their own experiences in academia to create a better solution for collaborative scientific writing.<ref name="OnYourWavelength" /><ref name="DigitalScience" />
Overleaf was conceived by John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller, who started developing it in 2011<ref name="JEP" /> as WriteLaTeX, through their company WriteLaTeX Limited.<ref name="CompaniesHouseGovUK" /><ref name="OpenGovUK" /><ref name="Endole" /><ref name="DueDil" /><ref name="StartupBeat" /> Both are mathematicians and were inspired by their own experiences in academia to create a better solution for collaborative scientific writing.<ref name="OnYourWavelength" /><ref name="DigitalScience" /> They launched a beta version of Overleaf on 16 January 2014, at the first #FuturePub event, held at the British Library in London.<ref name="Freyfogle" /><ref name="ScholCommsProd" />
They started developing WriteLaTeX from 2011.<ref name="JEP" /> They launched the beta version of Overleaf on 16 January 2014, at their first #FuturePub event held at the British Library in London.<ref name="Freyfogle" /><ref name="ScholCommsProd" />


On 20 July 2017, Overleaf acquired ShareLaTeX to create a combined community of over two million users.<ref name="ResearchInformation" /><ref name="SSP" /><ref name="ShareLaTeX.com" /> This led to the creation of Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform hosted at overleaf.com.<ref name="MathVault" /><ref name="ShareLaTeX.com" />
After merging with ShareLaTeX in 2017, they released Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform.<ref name="ShareLaTeX.com" />


== History ==
Overleaf was selected as one of the ten teams who participated to the 2013 Summer's Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) accelerator programme.<ref name="AnnouncingBGV" /><ref name="Nesta" /><ref name="WriteLaTeXBGV" /> That program started on the July 1, 2013, and lasted for 3 months.<ref name="Startacus" /><ref name="BGVWereBack" /><ref name="PaulMiller" /> The Demo Day of that BGV 2013 Summer program was held on the September 19, 2013.<ref name="BGVWDemoDay" />
Overleaf was selected as one of the ten teams who participated to the 2013 Summer's Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) accelerator programme.<ref name="AnnouncingBGV" /><ref name="Nesta" /><ref name="WriteLaTeXBGV" /> That program started on the July 1, 2013, and lasted for 3 months.<ref name="Startacus" /><ref name="BGVWereBack" /><ref name="PaulMiller" /> The Demo Day of that BGV 2013 Summer program was held on the September 19, 2013.<ref name="BGVWDemoDay" />


The company received strategic investment from [[Digital Science]] in 2014.<ref name="DSInvests" /><ref name="DSInvestsRI" /><ref name="DSInvestsVentureBeat" /><ref name="DSInvestsTheBookSeller" /> Overleaf won Innovative Internet Business at the 2014 [[Nominet]] Internet Awards,<ref name="NominetInternetAwards" /> and featured 99th in [[SyndicateRoom]]'s 2018 list of Britain's top 100 fastest-growing business.<ref name="SyndicateRoomTop100" />
The company received strategic investment from [[Digital Science]] in 2014.<ref name="DSInvests" /><ref name="DSInvestsRI" /><ref name="DSInvestsVentureBeat" /><ref name="DSInvestsTheBookSeller" /> Overleaf won Innovative Internet Business at the 2014 [[Nominet]] Internet Awards,<ref name="NominetInternetAwards" /> and featured 99th in [[SyndicateRoom]]'s 2018 list of Britain's top 100 fastest-growing business.<ref name="SyndicateRoomTop100" />


Overleaf has been discussed as a tool for writing scientific publications in [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']],<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Perkel|first=Jeffrey M.|date=2020-03-31|title=Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00916-6|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=580|pages=154–155|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00916-6|doi-access=free}}</ref> [[Science (journal)|''Science'']],<ref>{{Cite web|last=PainApr. 30|first=Elisabeth|last2=2018|last3=Pm|first3=3:00|date=2018-04-30|title=How to write your Ph.D. thesis|url=https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/04/how-write-your-phd-thesis|access-date=2020-06-11|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|language=en}}</ref> Red Hat's [[opensource.com]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Feed 269up|first=03 Nov 2015 Lois Donnelly|title=A breakdown of FOSS for students and researchers in academia|url=https://opensource.com/education/15/11/foss-academic-research|access-date=2020-06-11|website=Opensource.com|language=en}}</ref> and the German IT magazine ''[[Heise Online]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=online|first=heise|title=LaTeX im Browser: Overleaf und ShareLaTeX fusionieren|url=https://www.heise.de/ix/meldung/LaTeX-im-Browser-Overleaf-und-ShareLaTeX-fusionieren-3779700.html|access-date=2020-06-11|website=iX Magazin|language=de}}</ref> "In 2017, [[CERN]], Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, adopted Overleaf as its preferred collaborative authoring platform."<ref name=":0" />
Overleaf has been discussed as a tool for writing scientific publications in [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']],<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Perkel|first=Jeffrey M.|date=2020-03-31|title=Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=580|issue=7801|pages=154–155|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00916-6|pmid=32235940|bibcode=2020Natur.580..154P}}</ref> [[Science (journal)|''Science'']],<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Pain|first1=Elisabeth|date=2018-04-30|title=How to write your Ph.D. thesis|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/how-write-your-phd-thesis|access-date=2020-06-11|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|language=en}}</ref> Red Hat's [[opensource.com]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=3 November 2015 |first=Lois |last=Donnelly|title=A breakdown of FOSS for students and researchers in academia|url=https://opensource.com/education/15/11/foss-academic-research|access-date=2020-06-11|website=Opensource.com|language=en}}</ref> and the German IT magazine ''[[Heise Online]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=LaTeX im Browser: Overleaf und ShareLaTeX fusionieren|url=https://www.heise.de/ix/meldung/LaTeX-im-Browser-Overleaf-und-ShareLaTeX-fusionieren-3779700.html|access-date=2020-06-11|website=iX Magazin|language=de}}</ref> "In 2017, [[CERN]], Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, adopted Overleaf as its preferred collaborative authoring platform."<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kasioumis |first1=Nikos |last2=Brancolini |first2=Valeria |year=2019 |editor-last=Forti |editor-first=A. |editor2-last=Betev |editor2-first=L. |editor3-last=Litmaath |editor3-first=M. |editor4-last=Smirnova |editor4-first=O. |editor5-last=Hristov |editor5-first=P. |title=Collaborative Scientific Authoring at CERN: A user-centered approach |journal=EPJ Web of Conferences |volume=214 |pages=07003 |doi=10.1051/epjconf/201921407003 |s2cid=203696999 |issn=2100-014X|doi-access=free }}</ref>

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Overleaf provides templates for submission to scientific journals and conferences. For example, the [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=What is Overleaf?|url=https://supportcenter.ieee.org/app/answers/detail/a_id/1300/~/what-is-overleaf?|access-date=2020-06-11|website=[[IEEE]]}}</ref> and [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Write your article using Overleaf {{!}} Springer|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/overleaf|access-date=2020-06-11|website=www.springer.com|language=en}}</ref> (including Nature<ref>{{Cite web|title=Submit a LaTeX manuscript to a Springer journal using Overleaf|url=https://support.nature.com/en/support/solutions/articles/6000127538-submit-a-latex-manuscript-to-a-springer-journal-using-overleaf|access-date=2020-06-11|website=Springer Nature Support|language=en}}</ref>) 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.<ref name="ResearchInformation" /><ref name="SSP" /><ref name="ShareLaTeX.com" /> This led to the creation of Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform hosted at overleaf.com.<ref name="ShareLaTeX.com" />


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”.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Merging SaaS Products In A User-Centered Way: A Case Study of Overleaf and ShareLaTeX (Conference entry) |url=https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2021/program/content/56988 |access-date=2021-06-01 |website=SIGCHI |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery | location=New York | year=2021 |doi=10.1145/3411763.3443455 |language=en |last1=Reis |first1=Paulo |last2=Lees-Miller |first2=John D. |last3=Laqua |first3=Sven |title=Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |chapter=Merging SaaS Products in a User-Centered Way — A Case Study of Overleaf and ShareLaTeX |pages=1–8 |isbn=9781450380959 |s2cid=233987710}}</ref>
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Overleaf provides templates for submission to scientific journals and conferences. For example, the [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=What is Overleaf?|url=https://supportcenter.ieee.org/app/answers/detail/a_id/1300/~/what-is-overleaf?|access-date=2020-06-11|website=supportcenter.ieee.org}}</ref> and [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Write your article using Overleaf {{!}} Springer|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/overleaf|access-date=2020-06-11|website=www.springer.com|language=en}}</ref> (incl. Nature<ref>{{Cite web|title=Submit a LaTeX manuscript to a Springer journal using Overleaf|url=https://support.nature.com/en/support/solutions/articles/6000127538-submit-a-latex-manuscript-to-a-springer-journal-using-overleaf|access-date=2020-06-11|website=Springer Nature Support|language=en}}</ref>) mention the possibility for submission using Overleaf.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Comparison of TeX editors]]
*[[Collaborative real-time editor]]
*[[Collaborative real-time editor]]
*[[TeX]] and [[LaTeX]]
*[[Comparison of TeX editors]]
*{{annotated link|TeX}}


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<ref name="DigitalScience">{{cite web |last1=King |first1=George |title=The Overleaf Founder Story |url=https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/the-overleaf-founder-story |website=[[Digital Science]] News Blog |date=2 July 2015 |access-date=18 November 2019}}</ref>
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<ref name="JEP">{{cite journal |last1=Hammersley |first1=John |date=Winter 2015 |title=Collaborative Writing |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0018.116?view=text;rgn=main |journal=Journal of Electronic Publishing |volume=18 |issue=1 |doi=10.3998/3336451.0018.116 |access-date=7 March 2020 |language=en|doi-access=free |hdl=2027/spo.3336451.0018.116 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
<ref name="Freyfogle">{{cite web |last1=Freyfogle |first1=Ed |title=The #futurepub event |url=https://freyfogle.com/post/73565925098/the-futurepub-event |website=Ed Freyfogle Blog |date=17 January 2014 |accessdate=7 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
<ref name="Freyfogle">{{cite web |last1=Freyfogle |first1=Ed |title=The #futurepub event |url=https://freyfogle.com/post/73565925098/the-futurepub-event |website=Ed Freyfogle Blog |date=17 January 2014 |access-date=7 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
<ref name="ScholCommsProd">{{cite web |last1=Mulvany |first1=Ian |title=WriteLateX/Overleaf launch event at the British Library |url=http://scholarly-comms-product-blog.com/2014/01/18/writelatex-overleaf-launch |website=ScholCommsProd Blog |date=18 January 2014 |accessdate=7 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
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<ref name="ResearchInformation">{{cite web |title=Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million |url=https://www.researchinformation.info/news/overleaf-and-sharelatex-join-forces-create-community-two-million |website=Research Information |date=20 July 2017 |accessdate=18 November 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="ResearchInformation">{{cite web |title=Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million |url=https://www.researchinformation.info/news/overleaf-and-sharelatex-join-forces-create-community-two-million |website=Research Information |date=20 July 2017 |access-date=18 November 2019}}</ref>
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<ref name="SSP">{{cite web |title=Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million |url=https://www.sspnet.org/community/news/overleaf-and-sharelatex-join-forces-to-create-community-of-two-million |website=Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) |date=20 July 2017 |access-date=8 March 2020}}</ref>
<ref name="ShareLaTeX.com">{{cite web |title=ShareLaTeX is now part of Overleaf |url=https://www.sharelatex.com |website=ShareLaTeX |accessdate=8 March 2020}}</ref>
<ref name="ShareLaTeX.com">{{cite web |title=ShareLaTeX is now part of Overleaf |url=https://www.sharelatex.com |website=ShareLaTeX |access-date=8 March 2020}}</ref>
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<ref name="AnnouncingBGV">{{cite web |title=Announcing BGV Summer 2013 Cohort! |url=https://bethnalgreenventures.com/blog/announcing-bgv-summer-2013-cohort |website=Bethnal Green Ventures Blog |date=24 June 2013 |access-date=8 March 2020}}</ref>
<ref name="Nesta">{{cite web |title=Teams announced for Bethnal Green Ventures Summer 2013 |url=http://www.nesta.org.uk/blogs/policy_innovation_blog/teams_announced_for_bethnal_green_ventures_summer_2013 |website=Nesta |date=24 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707045111/http://www.nesta.org.uk/blogs/policy_innovation_blog/teams_announced_for_bethnal_green_ventures_summer_2013 |access-date=7 July 2013|archive-date=2013-07-07 }}</ref>
<ref name="AnnouncingBGV">{{cite web |title=Announcing BGV Summer 2013 Cohort! |url=https://bethnalgreenventures.com/blog/announcing-bgv-summer-2013-cohort |website=Bethnal Green Ventures Blog |date=24 June 2013 |accessdate=8 March 2020}}</ref>
<ref name="Nesta">{{cite web |title=Teams announced for Bethnal Green Ventures Summer 2013 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707045111/http://www.nesta.org.uk/blogs/policy_innovation_blog/teams_announced_for_bethnal_green_ventures_summer_2013 |website=Nesta |date=24 June 2013 |accessdate=7 July 2013}}</ref>
<ref name="WriteLaTeXBGV">{{cite web |title=WriteLaTeX joining forces with Bethnal Green Ventures and Nesta |url=https://www.overleaf.com/blog/31 |website=Overleaf Blog |date=25 June 2013 |access-date=8 March 2020}}</ref>
<ref name="WriteLaTeXBGV">{{cite web |title=WriteLaTeX joining forces with Bethnal Green Ventures and Nesta |url=https://www.overleaf.com/blog/31 |website=Overleaf Blog |date=25 June 2013 |accessdate=8 March 2020}}</ref>
<ref name="Startacus">{{cite web |title=The Bethnal Green Ventures Incubator opens for entries |url=https://startacus.net/culture/the-bethnal-green-ventures-incubator-opens-for-entries |website=Startacus |date=17 March 2013 |access-date=8 March 2020}}</ref>
<ref name="Startacus">{{cite web |title=The Bethnal Green Ventures Incubator opens for entries |url=https://startacus.net/culture/the-bethnal-green-ventures-incubator-opens-for-entries |website=Startacus |date=17 March 2013 |accessdate=8 March 2020}}</ref>
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Overleaf
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

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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] (including Nature[37]) mention the possibility for submission using Overleaf.

Merge with ShareLaTeX

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "Write papers like a modern scientist (use Overleaf or Google Docs + Paperpile)". Simply Statistics blog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Overleaf - About us". Overleaf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. ^ "ScholarOne Partner Program". Web of Science Group. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  4. ^ "New partnership between AIP Publishing and Overleaf provides an enhanced authoring experience". AIP Publishing. 22 October 2018.
  5. ^ Hammersley, John (Winter 2015). "Collaborative Writing". Journal of Electronic Publishing. 18 (1). doi:10.3998/3336451.0018.116. hdl:2027/spo.3336451.0018.116. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  6. ^ "WriteLaTeX limited". Companies House. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  7. ^ "WriteLaTeX limited". OpenGovUK. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  8. ^ "WriteLaTeX limited". Endole. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  9. ^ "WriteLaTeX limited". DueDil. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  10. ^ "WriteLaTeX has built a Cloud-based collaborative paper writing platform for academics". CMSWire. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  11. ^ Budrikis, Zoe (10 May 2019). "Interactions: John Hammersley". On Your Wavelength - A physics blog from the Nature journals. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  12. ^ King, George (2 July 2015). "The Overleaf Founder Story". Digital Science News Blog. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  13. ^ Freyfogle, Ed (17 January 2014). "The #futurepub event". Ed Freyfogle Blog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  14. ^ Mulvany, Ian (18 January 2014). "WriteLateX/Overleaf launch event at the British Library". ScholCommsProd Blog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  15. ^ a b c "ShareLaTeX is now part of Overleaf". ShareLaTeX. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  16. ^ "Announcing BGV Summer 2013 Cohort!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  17. ^ "Teams announced for Bethnal Green Ventures Summer 2013". Nesta. 24 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  18. ^ "WriteLaTeX joining forces with Bethnal Green Ventures and Nesta". Overleaf Blog. 25 June 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  19. ^ "The Bethnal Green Ventures Incubator opens for entries". Startacus. 17 March 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  20. ^ "We're back!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 14 February 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  21. ^ Miller, Paul (14 February 2013). "Bethnal Green Ventures — some good news". Paul Miller Blog. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  22. ^ "And suddenly… it's almost DEMO DAY!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  23. ^ Shepherd, Cameron (23 July 2014). "Digital Science Invests in London start-up WriteLaTeX". Digital Science News Blog. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  24. ^ "Digital Science invests in WriteLaTeX". Research Information. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  25. ^ Zhou, Larry (23 July 2014). "WriteLaTeX picks up funding to push its collaborative academic writing tool". VentureBeat. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  26. ^ Page, Benedicte (24 July 2014). "Digital Science in WriteLaTeX investment". The Bookseller. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  27. ^ "Nominet Internet Award winners 2014 revealed". Nominet. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  28. ^ "Britain's Top 100 fastest-growing businesses 2018". SyndicateRoom. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  29. ^ a b Perkel, Jeffrey M. (2020-03-31). "Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing". Nature. 580 (7801): 154–155. Bibcode:2020Natur.580..154P. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00916-6. PMID 32235940.
  30. ^ Pain, Elisabeth (2018-04-30). "How to write your Ph.D. thesis". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  31. ^ Donnelly, Lois (3 November 2015). "A breakdown of FOSS for students and researchers in academia". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  32. ^ "LaTeX im Browser: Overleaf und ShareLaTeX fusionieren". iX Magazin (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  33. ^ Kasioumis, Nikos; Brancolini, Valeria (2019). Forti, A.; Betev, L.; Litmaath, M.; Smirnova, O.; Hristov, P. (eds.). "Collaborative Scientific Authoring at CERN: A user-centered approach". EPJ Web of Conferences. 214: 07003. doi:10.1051/epjconf/201921407003. ISSN 2100-014X. S2CID 203696999.
  34. ^ "What is Overleaf?". IEEE. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  35. ^ "Write your article using Overleaf | Springer". www.springer.com. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  36. ^ "Submit a LaTeX manuscript to a Springer journal using Overleaf". Springer Nature Support. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  37. ^ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". Research Information. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  38. ^ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). 20 July 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  39. ^ "Merging SaaS Products In A User-Centered Way: A Case Study of Overleaf and ShareLaTeX (Conference entry)". SIGCHI. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  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". 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. S2CID 233987710.
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