Setting up Key Sources Some policy sources matter more to your organisation than others. To help you focus on the ones that matter most,...
Understanding policy document search results This article will help you understand the different elements of the policy document and grey literature search results. Policy document...
Understanding CSV exports Exporting results from the “Search Policy Documents” tab to CSV provides a list and several categories of data about the...
Summary reports for policy documents When you run a search in the ‘Search Policy Documents and Grey Literature’ search, you can view the results in...
Policy document filters In the “Search Policy Documents” search mode, there are numerous filters available to help users structure and/or limit a search...
Trial account limitations While an Overton Index trial is a great way to get familiar with the platform’s functionality, features and our data,...
Making the most of your institutional trial Overton is used by organisations for various purposes, including understanding policy influence, demonstrating research impact, discovery and research, and supporting...
Duplicate policy documents in Overton While Overton takes measure to not index duplicate policy documents, there are some situations in which duplicates occur in the database. This page will cover these situations.
Policy documents filter: Language Overton is largely language agnostic. We index policy documents regardless of their language or alphabet. For details about the processing...
How to track the cascading impact of research in policy Keeping track of how research from a scholarly article spreads into policy documents can be pretty tricky, especially as it...
How to reference Overton This is intended as general, informal guidance for how to reference data from Overton. There is a wide range of...
How does Overton generate document descriptions? Overton generates descriptions and themes for all documents within our database using a large language model (LLM). We run these...
How does Overton Index classify its sources? Overton Index uses a comprehensive policy source taxonomy to classify all of its sources to help refine and analyse search...
Differences Between Excel and CSV Exports Exporting results from either the “Search Policy Documents” tab or “Scholarly Articles” tab provides easy access to result sets. Policy...