How to access Overton Subscribing institutions have multiple options for logging into Overton. The available options will depend on the type of license your...
Guide for account admins Each organisation using Overton has a staff member listed as the Group Admin – this person can see who has...
Search for policy documents that cite or mention your organisation Search using the main dashboard Type your organisation’s name into the search box in the ‘Search policy documents tab’. A...
Search for scholarly articles cited in policy Search using the main dashboard Type your organisation’s name, journal title, funder or publisher name into the search box in...
Search for policy documents that cite or mention someone from your organisation For organisations that produce scholarly research or policy documents, it is often useful to be able to see where individual...
Saved searches, alerts, tags and highlights If you have created an Overton account, you are able to customise your search experience in a few different ways....
Key sources Citations or mentions in some policy sources may be more relevant to your organisation than others. To help you quickly...
Requesting a new policy source Overton is always adding new policy sources and we’re always happy to hear from our clients about which ones they...
Finding out which sources, institutions and journals Overton tracks You can see the information Overton tracks by going to the ‘Browse Data’ tab in the menu bar when you’re...
Exporting search results Exporting policy document search results to a spreadsheet In the grey bar above the search results, you have the option...
Sharing search results Sharing summary reports When you run a search of Overton’s policy document database, you can view the results in a...
Minimum hardware requirements What are the minimum hardware requirements for accessing Overton? Web application While there are no minimum hardware requirements per se...
How to read policy document results Image map of a result Use the following map to identify the different elements in a policy document result. Coloured...
Summary reports for policy documents When you run a search in the ‘Search Policy Documents’ tab, you can view the results as a list on...
Summary reports for scholarly articles When you run a search in the ‘Search Scholarly Articles tab, you can view the results as a list on...
Making the most of your Overton trial Overton is used by organisations for various main purposes; understanding Policy Influence, demonstrating Research Impact, Discovery and Research, and to...
Has my work been cited in Policy? Overton’s primary focus is policy documents so we do not index every scholarly article which has ever been published. The...