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Overleaf
Original author(s)John Hammersley & John Lees-Miller
Repositoryhttps://github.com/overleaf/overleaf
TypeWeb application
LicenseAGPLv3
Websitewww.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 originally launched in 2012 as WriteLaTeX by the company WriteLaTeX Limited, co-founded by John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller.[6][7][8][9][10] Both are mathematicians and were inspired by their own experiences in academia to create a better solution for collaborative scientific writing.[11][12] They started developing WriteLaTeX from 2011.[13] They launched the beta version of Overleaf on the 16th of January 2014 at their first #FuturePub event held at the British Library in London.[14][15]

On the 20th of July 2017, Overleaf acquired ShareLaTeX to create a combined community of over two million users.[16][17][18] This led to the creation of Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform hosted at overleaf.com.[19][18]

Overleaf was selected as one of the ten teams who participated to the 2013 Summer's Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) accelerator programme.[20][21][22] That program started on the 1st of July 2013 and lasted for 3 months.[23][24][25] The Demo Day of that BGV 2013 Summer program was held on the 19th of September 2013.[26]

The company received strategic investment from Digital Science in 2014.[27][28][29][30] Overleaf won Innovative Internet Business at the 2014 Nominet Internet Awards,[31] and featured 99th in SyndicateRoom's 2018 list of Britain's top 100 fastest-growing business.[32]

Overleaf has been discussed as a tool for writing scientific publications in Nature,[33] Science,[34] Red Hats opensource.com[35] and the German IT magazine heise online.[36] "In 2017, CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, adopted Overleaf as its preferred collaborative authoring platform."[33]

Overleaf provides templates for submission to scientific journals and conferences. For example, the IEEE[37] and Springer[38] (incl. Nature[39]) mention the possibility for submission using Overleaf.

See also

References

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  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. ^ "WriteLaTeX limited". Companies House. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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  10. ^ Budrikis, Zoe (10 May 2019). "Interactions: John Hammersley". On Your Wavelength - A physics blog from the Nature journals. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  11. ^ King, George (2 July 2015). "The Overleaf Founder Story". Digital Science News Blog. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  12. ^ Hammersley, John (Winter 2015). "Collaborative Writing". Journal of Electronic Publishing. 18 (1). doi:10.3998/3336451.0018.116. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  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. ^ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". Research Information. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  16. ^ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). 20 July 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  17. ^ a b "ShareLaTeX is now part of Overleaf". ShareLaTeX. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  18. ^ "The Definitive, Non-Technical Introduction to LaTeX, Professional Typesetting and Scientific Publishing - OverLeaf — The Popular Choice". Math Vault. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  19. ^ "Announcing BGV Summer 2013 Cohort!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  20. ^ "Teams announced for Bethnal Green Ventures Summer 2013". Nesta. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  21. ^ "WriteLaTeX joining forces with Bethnal Green Ventures and Nesta". Overleaf Blog. 25 June 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  22. ^ "The Bethnal Green Ventures Incubator opens for entries". Startacus. 17 March 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  23. ^ "We're back!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 14 February 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  24. ^ Miller, Paul (14 February 2013). "Bethnal Green Ventures — some good news". Paul Miller Blog. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  25. ^ "And suddenly… it's almost DEMO DAY!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  26. ^ Shepherd, Cameron (23 July 2014). "Digital Science Invests in London start-up WriteLaTeX". Digital Science News Blog. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  27. ^ "Digital Science invests in WriteLaTeX". Research Information. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  28. ^ Zhou, Larry (23 July 2014). "WriteLaTeX picks up funding to push its collaborative academic writing tool". VentureBeat. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  29. ^ Page, Benedicte (24 July 2014). "Digital Science in WriteLaTeX investment". The Bookseller. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  30. ^ Nominet (3 July 2014). "Nominet Internet Award winners 2014 revealed". Nominet. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  31. ^ SyndicateRoom and Beauhurst. "Britain's Top 100 fastest-growing businesses 2018". SyndicateRoom. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  32. ^ a b Perkel, Jeffrey M. (2020-03-31). "Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing". Nature. 580: 154–155. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00916-6.
  33. ^ PainApr. 30, Elisabeth; 2018; Pm, 3:00 (2018-04-30). "How to write your Ph.D. thesis". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2020-06-11. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  34. ^ Feed 269up, 03 Nov 2015 Lois Donnelly. "A breakdown of FOSS for students and researchers in academia". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2020-06-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  35. ^ online, heise. "LaTeX im Browser: Overleaf und ShareLaTeX fusionieren". iX Magazin (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  36. ^ "What is Overleaf?". supportcenter.ieee.org. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  37. ^ "Write your article using Overleaf | Springer". www.springer.com. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  38. ^ "Submit a LaTeX manuscript to a Springer journal using Overleaf". Springer Nature Support. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
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