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UNSW provides Overleaf accounts to students and faculty
By Mary Anne Baynes

Overleaf is happy to announce that The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) and Overleaf have partnered to provide all UNSW students, faculty and staff with Overleaf Pro+Teach accounts. The UNSW Library is providing the UNSW community with innovative scholarly authorship technology via premium Overleaf accounts and a custom UNSW authoring portal on Overleaf:

UNSW portal on the Overleaf platform
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A New Tool for Authors – the IEEE LaTeX Analyzer, powered by Overleaf
By Mary Anne Baynes

London, UK—February 8, 2018: A new tool for authors – the IEEE LaTeX Analyzer, powered by Overleaf – helps speed up the publishing process by allowing authors to upload articles and validate their article’s LaTeX files prior to submission to the IEEE.

Image of a LaTeX file passing the validation tests of the IEEE LaTeX Analyzer service
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Lift-off with ShareLaTeX: Cornell Rocketry wins documentation award
Simran Shinh, Operations Research Engineering '20, Cornell University

In this Question and Answer session, Simran Shinh of Cornell University (Operations Research Engineering '20) tells us why Cornell Rocketry chose ShareLaTeX and how it helped them win an award for their technical documentation.

Photo of Cornell Rocketry Team's rocket, Ezra, leaving the launch pad

Cornell Rocketry Team’s rocket, Ezra, leaves the launch pad. Photo credit: Liam Patterson (Electrical Engineering '20).

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Tip of the Week: How to download an Overleaf template
By Graham Douglas

In this week’s tip we provide a short video showing how to download an Overleaf template for use in a local TeX/LaTeX installation.

screenshot of the Overleaf templates page

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Attending the launch of Dimensions from Digital Science
By John Hammersley

Earlier this week I was delighted to be able to attend the launch of the new Dimensions product from our colleagues at Digital Science. Held at the Wellcome Trust building in central London, the evening was a mix of invited talks and panel discussions from speakers across the research workflow, along with a live demo of the new product from Daniel Hook and Christian Herzog who have led this project from its inception. The reaction in the room was very positive and engaged, which was all the more impressive given that this was an after work event on a Monday night!

At its core, Dimensions is connecting together the data behind the different elements of research – including grants, publications, citations, clinical trials and patents – and allowing the user to query that data in a very flexible way to make it as broad or specific as they need. For researchers it provides immediate, free access to search and citation data for 86 million articles and books.

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