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  • 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...
  • 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 User Accounts

    Trial Users are able to explore each tab in the Overton database (Policy Documents, People and Scholarly Articles) but they...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Duplicate policy documents in Overton

    Overton takes steps to not index duplicate policy documents (you can find more information on how we disambiguate policy documents...
  • 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...

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