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  • Using Overton’s Advanced Search

    Learn how our advanced search query builder works and which search strategies you can use in Overton Index. Our advanced...
  • Search for names in Overton

    Users can search for people’s names in Overton to see if an individual has been cited or mentioned in policy....
  • Search for policy documents that cite or mention your organisation

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

    Find policy citations for scholarly articles cited in policy using DOIs and other unique identifiers and by institutional affiliation Search...
  • Search for policy documents that cite or mention someone from your organisation

    For organisations that produce scholarly research or policy documents, it is useful to be able to see where individual authors...
  • Search for books or book chapters cited in policy

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

    Policy to policy citations happen when one policy document references another. Overton Index includes actual policy documents but also reports...
  • 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 purposes, including understanding Policy Influence,  demonstrating Research Impact, Discovery and Research, and supporting...
  • Search using DOIs and other identifiers

    Searching for scholarly works cited in policy is easy when you use DOIs or other identifiers such as PMIDs, ISBNs,...
  • Policy documents filter: Language

    Overton is largely language agnostic. We index policy documents regardless of their language or alphabet. For details about the processing...
  • Searching on Overton Engage

    Search options on Engage There are a few different ways to search on Engage, which are impacted by the subscription...
  • Saving searches on Overton Engage 

    Save a search Once you have run a search for policy engagement opportunities, you can save your search from grey...
  • Searching for similar policy documents

    Find similar policy documents using semantic search
  • Search by Overton ID

    Searching with Overton IDs lets users target specific subsets of documents within Overton Index. Users may want to do this...

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