Tip of the Week: Use Tags to Organize Your Dashboard

September 28, 2017 By Ryan Looney

Did you know you can organize your Project Dashboard with tags?

Strategies for Funding Scholarly Authorship Services on your Campus

September 26, 2017 Helen B. Josephine, Solution Specialist at Overleaf

Many activities in the classroom, the lab, and the research group intersect with the library and the resources provided by the library budget. Students, faculty and researchers use an amazing array of online resources—e-books, journals, conference proceedings, datasets, complex databases—usually funded by the university library. But what about the scholarly tools needed to analyze, write, publish and archive the results of the research completed? Which budget supports the analytic software for social scientists, the GIS software to map data, the authoring software to format articles, the supplies for the 3D printer lab? In this article Helen Josephine explores the options for libraries to partner with other campus departments and units to fund the tools and services needed to support today’s digital scholarly environment.

Case Study: An Introduction to Code Ocean—Creating and Uploading Content into Overleaf

September 21, 2017 By Graham Douglas

Code Ocean is a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform that provides researchers and developers with an easy way to share, discover and run code published in academic journals and conferences.

In this Case Study article we show how files produced by algorithms and projects published on Code Ocean can be uploaded into an Overleaf LaTeX document. We also demonstrate that Code Ocean can be used as an external platform for producing a wide range of programmatically-generated content specifically for use within Overleaf LaTeX documents.

Tip of the Week: Working Offline with Git

September 21, 2017 By Ryan Looney Did you know you can work offline and use Git to sync your files?