Searching

Run a search Go to the dashboard and select the ‘Search Policy Documents’ tab in the search window. Start typing...

For organisations that produce, publish or fund scholarly research, the route into a search in Overton often starts with a...

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

Image map of a result Use the following map to identify the different elements in a policy document result. Coloured...

In the “Search Policy Documents” search mode, there are numerous filters available to help users structure and/or limit a search...

Learn Overton’s search syntax for phrases, proximity matching, searching specific fields and boolean queries Simple keyword searches in Overton will...

Tips for searching for people by name The author name data we get in Overton ultimately comes from publishers and...

Scholarly Articles search for books cited in policy The gold standard way of searching for books or book chapters that...

When you run a search in the ‘Search Policy Documents’ tab, you can view the results as a list on...

When you run a search in the ‘Search Scholarly Articles tab, you can view the results as a list on...

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

If a name doesn’t return any matches or fewer citations than expected in the People tab there may still be...