A description of Overton’s bulk data snapshot format Data snapshots give you access to the Overton database in machine readable form so that you can import it into your own database or BI system. Note that data snapshots are not publicly available – we have a list of customers who…
In this short video, you will learn what Overton is, what data is available and how to get started using the platform.
Important things to know if you’re planning to use metrics or indicators based on Overton’s data Overton’s search and filtering capability makes it quick and easy to find policy documents authored by your academics or citing your institution’s research. Often you’ll want to focus on the qualitative aspects of the…
Briefly covers Overton’s data and how it differs from other policy tracking systems Overton is the world’s largest database of policy documents (“documents written primarily for or by policymakers”) and the relationships between them. We systematically add sources that meet our minimum criteria and in response to user requests. We…
What languages does Overton support? Overton is largely language agnostic Overton is largely language agnostic (with some caveats – see below) and documents are indexed, analyzed and made available for search regardless of the language or alphabet that they’re written in. To make browsing easier, document titles (data in the…
More information on the types and geographic focus of the sources in Overton Overton tracks thousands of different sources of policy documents from 190+ different countries. New documents from those sources are automatically added to the database. We collect policy documents from governments and official bodies but also from IGOs,…
Does Overton contain only recent policy or older documents too? The quick but rough way to answer this is to log in to the app, go to the “Policy” tab and apply any filters you’re interested in (government documents only, from South America, central banks only etc.) and then run…
Learn more about which sources we track and explore the extent of our international coverage.
More information on the number of sources and documents we collect Overton indexes more than 12M documents from more than 1700 different policy sources, making it many times larger than similar systems. For example in August 2021 the policy component of Dimensions/Altmetric contained ~ 2.6M citations of DOIs in policy…
Information on the taxonomies that Overton uses to map topics, entities and subject areas to policy documents Overton uses machine learning techniques to extract topics and entities from the full text of each policy document we index, and then tries to map them to a taxonomy to make browsing and…