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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 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][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 started developing WriteLaTeX from 2011.[14][15] 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.[16][17][15][18][19][20] WriteLaTeX was then formally relaunched as Overleaf in January 2015.[21][22][23][24]

On the 20th of July 2017, Overleaf acquired ShareLaTeX to create a combined community of over two million users.[25][26][27][28] This led to the creation of Overleaf v2, combining original features from both into a single cloud-based platform hosted at overleaf.com.[29][28]

Overleaf was selected as one of the ten teams who participated to the 2013 Summer's Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) accelerator programme.[30][31][32] That program started on the 1st of July 2013 and lasted for 3 months.[33][34][35] The Demo Day of that BGV 2013 Summer program was held on the 19th of September 2013.[36][37]

The company received strategic investment from Digital Science in 2014.[38][39][40][41][42] Overleaf won Innovative Internet Business at the 2014 Nominet Internet Awards,[43] and featured 99th in SyndicateRoom's 2018 list of Britain's top 100 fastest-growing business.[44]

Their customers include universities, such as Harvard,[45][46][47] MIT,[48][49][50] Princeton,[51][52][53][54] Stanford,[55][56][57][58] DTU,[59][60][61] and ETH Zurich.[62][63] alongside research institutions such as CERN.[64][65][66]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Overleaf - About us". Overleaf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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  4. ^ "New partnership between AIP Publishing and Overleaf provides an enhanced authoring experience". AIP Publishing). 22 October 2018.
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  9. ^ "Google Docs vs writeLaTex: Real Time Collaborative Writing Tools Do Battle". CMSWire. 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. ^ Hammersley, John (Winter 2015). "Collaborative Writing". Journal of Electronic Publishing. 18 (1). doi:10.3998/3336451.0018.116. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  14. ^ a b Hammersley, John (31 December 2013). "Join us at the British Library in January to celebrate a New Year for science and publishing". Overleaf Blog. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  15. ^ Freyfogle, Ed (17 January 2014). "The #futurepub event". Ed Freyfogle Blog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  16. ^ Mulvany, Ian (18 January 2014). "WriteLateX/Overleaf launch event at the British Library". ScholCommsProd Blog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  17. ^ Hammersley, John (17 January 2014). "Overleaf launch press release". Overleaf Blog. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  18. ^ Hammersley, John (25 January 2014). "Photos from the launch event". Overleaf Blog. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  19. ^ Hammersley, John (10 April 2019). "#FuturePub London returned to a full house!". Overleaf Blog. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  20. ^ Kottwitz, Stefan (26 December 2014). "writeLaTeX is now Overleaf". TeXblog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  21. ^ Hammersley, John (16 December 2014). "WriteLaTeX is continued Overleaf". Overleaf Blog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  22. ^ Hammersley, John (8 January 2015). "New Year, New Name, New Free Features!". Overleaf Blog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  23. ^ King, George (9 January 2015). "The Next Chapter of the WriteLaTeX Story is Overleaf!". Digital Science News Blog. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  24. ^ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". Research Information. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  25. ^ "Overleaf and ShareLaTeX join forces to create community of two million". Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). 20 July 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  26. ^ "Exciting News — ShareLaTeX is joining Overleaf". Overleaf Blog. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  27. ^ a b "ShareLaTeX is now part of Overleaf". ShareLaTeX. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  28. ^ "The Definitive, Non-Technical Introduction to LaTeX, Professional Typesetting and Scientific Publishing - OverLeaf — The Popular Choice". Math Vault. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  29. ^ "Announcing BGV Summer 2013 Cohort!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  30. ^ "Teams announced for Bethnal Green Ventures Summer 2013". Nesta. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  31. ^ "WriteLaTeX joining forces with Bethnal Green Ventures and Nesta". Overleaf Blog. 25 June 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  32. ^ "The Bethnal Green Ventures Incubator opens for entries". Startacus. 17 March 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  33. ^ "We're back!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 14 February 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  34. ^ Miller, Paul (14 February 2013). "Bethnal Green Ventures — some good news". Paul Miller Blog. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  35. ^ "And suddenly… it's almost DEMO DAY!". Bethnal Green Ventures Blog. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  36. ^ Bethnal Green Ventures (19 September 2013). "BGV Demo Day 2013". Eventbrite. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  37. ^ Shepherd, Cameron (23 July 2014). "Digital Science Invests in London start-up WriteLaTeX". Digital Science News Blog. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  38. ^ "Digital Science invests in WriteLaTeX". Research Information. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  39. ^ Zhou, Larry (23 July 2014). "WriteLaTeX picks up funding to push its collaborative academic writing tool". VentureBeat. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  40. ^ Page, Benedicte (24 July 2014). "Digital Science in WriteLaTeX investment". The Bookseller. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  41. ^ Hammersley, John (23 July 2014). "Digital Science invests in WriteLaTeX". Overleaf Blog. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  42. ^ Nominet (3 July 2014). "Nominet Internet Award winners 2014 revealed". Nominet. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  43. ^ SyndicateRoom and Beauhurst. "Britain's Top 100 fastest-growing businesses 2018". SyndicateRoom. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  44. ^ "Harvard Library Tool Overleaf". Harvard Library Services and Tool. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  45. ^ "Overleaf Professional at Harvard". Harvard Library Research Guides. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  46. ^ "Harvard University on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  47. ^ "Overleaf Pro+ now available to MIT community". MIT Libraries News. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  48. ^ "Citation Management and Writing Tools: Overleaf". MIT Libraries. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  49. ^ "Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
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  51. ^ "Scholarly Communications Office Tools". Princeton University Library. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  52. ^ "Overleaf & ShareLaTeX, the Online LaTeX Editor". Princeton Department of Computer Science Computing Guide. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  53. ^ "Princeton University on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  54. ^ "Free Overleaf Pro Account for all Stanford students, faculty, staff". Stanford Libraries Blog. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  55. ^ "Overleaf/WriteLaTex: trial access for one year (Jan-Dec 2015)". Stanford Libraries Blog. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  56. ^ "Bibliography Management - LaTeX, BibTeX and Overleaf". Stanford Libraries. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  57. ^ "Stanford University on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  58. ^ "Software - Getting Started". DTU LaTeX Support. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  59. ^ "ShareLatex". DTU gDataBar Support. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  60. ^ "Technical University of Denmark on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  61. ^ "Collaborative LaTeX editor". ETH Zurich Services & resources. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  62. ^ "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  63. ^ "CERN community can now access Overleaf and ShareLaTeX". CERN. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  64. ^ Perkel, Jeffrey (10 January 2020). "Three ways to collaborate on writing: Document-sharing tools for scientists". NatureIndex. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  65. ^ "European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Overleaf". Overleaf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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