What does Overleaf offer scientists and researchers?
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By Catherine Dhanjal

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If your organisation has a requirement to produce technical articles, grant applications and other documents, particularly those requiring the use of mathematical formulae, scientific notations, graphs and charts then you'll want to find out what our reviewer thought of LaTeX-based software tool Overleaf.

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If you're working in the R&D and science fields you're probably familiar with an authoring tool known as LaTeX. We recently reviewed Overleaf, a collaborative writing and publishing tool based on LaTeX and aimed at authors, institutions, publishers and enterprise users.

Jinfo Subscribers can log in now to read our "Mini review of Overleaf". 

Digital Science - focusing on tech for scientific research

Overleaf is part of the Digital Science group, whose portfolio includes:

• Online digital repository Figshare (reviewed by Jinfo in 2016)
• And Altmetric, a data science platform that allows research organisations, publishers, funders and other organisations to track the attention gained by research elements such as journals, books and datasets (Jinfo product review publishing soon).

Reviewer Helen Josephine explains, "The Overleaf platform brings cloud-based, state-of-the-art collaboration technology to authors, editors, and publishers in science, engineering, or any other field requiring tables, charts, graphs, scientific notation or formulae not easily supported or formatted by standard authoring tools."

On the corporate side she notes that: "Enterprise clients have a portal customised to the needs of the organisation with links to the appropriate corporate templates for report formats, journal articles or funding applications."

There are other platforms offering a similar experience and pricing ranging from free to enterprise accounts. Helen provides a useful table comparing the key features of Overleaf against competitors ShareLaTeX and Authorea. 

Find out more

Jinfo Subscribers can log in now to find out more about partners, publishers, key features and the user interface in our "Mini review of Overleaf".

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