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  • Comment: The draft heavily relies on a single source (overleaf). Also, vimeo and reddit are user-generated content, which could not establish notability. WikiAviator (talk) 15:45, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Comment: Fails WP:NORG - lacks significant coverage on multiple independent reliable secondary sources. Blogsites, Vimeo, press releases and interview with the founder (Reddit) are not acceptable or reliable independent sources. Dan arndt (talk) 09:01, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Overleaf
TypeWeb application
Websitewww.overleaf.com

Overleaf, formerly WriteLaTeX[1][2] is an open-source collaborative, cloud-based LaTeX editor used for writing, editing and publishing scientific documents. It partners with a wide range of scientific publishers to provide official journal LaTeX templates, and direct submission links.[3][4][5]

Overleaf was co-founded in 2012, by John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller. Both are mathematicians and were inspired by their own experiences in academia to create a better solution for collaborative scientific writing.[6][7]

Overleaf is a privately held company run by its two founders. The company received strategic investment from Digital Science in 2014, after being part of the Bethnal Green Ventures accelerator programme in 2013.[8]. Overleaf won Innovative Internet Business at the 2014 Nominet Internet Awards[9], and featured 99th in SyndicateRoom's 2018 list of Britain's top 100 fastest-growing business.[10]

On January 14th 2016, Overleaf founder John Hammersley took part in a Reddit AMA on the r/science subreddit.[11]

On July 20th, 2017, Overleaf acquired ShareLaTeX, to create a combined community of over two million users.[12] Overleaf V2 combined original features from both into a single cloud-based platform hosted at overleaf.com.

In March 2019, Overleaf reached over 4 million users worldwide.[13] Customers include universities, including Harvard[14][15][16] and MIT[17][18][19], alongside research institutions such as CERN.[20][21]

Overleaf is available as an on-premise solution for enterprise companies. It is locally installed for businesses who want to host their data inside their firewalls on local servers.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Company information". Crunchbase. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  2. ^ Hammersley, John. "WriteLaTeX is continued Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  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. ^ King, George (2 July 2015). "The Overleaf Founder Story". Digital Science. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  6. ^ Hammersley, John (10 May 2019). "Interactions: John Hammersley". OnYourWavelength. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  7. ^ Bethnal Green Ventures. "write latex". Vimeo. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  8. ^ Nominet. "Nominet Internet Award winners 2014 revealed". Nominet. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  9. ^ SyndicateRoom and Beauhurst. "Britain's Top 100 fastest-growing businesses 2018". SyndicateRoom. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  10. ^ "r/science - Science AMA Series: I'm John Hammersley, mathematics PhD and co-founder of Overleaf, here to discuss my transition from academia to industry, to becoming a company founder, Ask Me Anything!". Reddit. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". Research Information. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  12. ^ Hammersley, John (27 March 2019). "Wow—Four million people now use Overleaf!". Overleaf. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  13. ^ "Harvard Library Tool Overleaf". Harvard Library Services and Tool. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Overleaf Professional at Harvard". Harvard Library Research Guides. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  15. ^ "Harvard University on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  16. ^ "Overleaf Pro+ now available to MIT community". MIT Libraries News. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  17. ^ "Citation Management and Writing Tools: Overleaf". MIT Libraries. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  18. ^ "Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  19. ^ "CERN community can now access Overleaf and ShareLaTeX". CERN. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  20. ^ Perkel, Jeffrey (10 January 2020). "Three ways to collaborate on writing: Document-sharing tools for scientists". NatureIndex. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
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