Getting started

Subscribing institutions have multiple options for logging into Overton. The available options will depend on the type of license your...

Each organisation using Overton has a staff member listed as the Group Admin – this person can see who has...

Search for citations of research from your organisation in policy documents. Watch our step-by-step video or read through the steps.

Find scholarly research cited in policy documents by organisation or individuals using DOIs and other identifiers. Video: Search for scholarly...

For organisations that produce scholarly research or policy documents, it is useful to be able to see where individual authors...

If you have created an Overton account, you are able to customise your search experience in a few different ways....

Citations or mentions in some policy sources may be more relevant to your organisation than others. To help you quickly...

Overton is always adding new policy sources and we’re always happy to hear from our clients about which ones they...

You can see the information Overton tracks by going to the ‘Browse Data’ tab in the menu bar when you’re...

Exporting policy document search results to a spreadsheet In the grey bar above the search results, you have the option...

Sharing summary reports When you run a search of Overton’s policy document database, you can view the results in a...

What are the minimum hardware requirements for accessing Overton? Web application While there are no minimum hardware requirements per se...

This article will help you understand the different elements of the policy document and grey literature search results. Policy document...

When you run a search in the ‘Search Policy Documents and Grey Literature’ search, you can view the results in...

Results from the ‘Search Scholarly Articles’ search can be viewed as a summary report. A summary report examines the results...

Overton is used by organisations for various main purposes; understanding Policy Influence,  demonstrating Research Impact, Discovery and Research, and to...

Overton’s primary focus is policy documents so we do not index every scholarly article which has ever been published. The...

This is intended as general, informal guidance for how to reference data from Overton. There is a wide range of...