Overleaf is an online LaTeX and Rich Text collaborative writing and publishing tool that makes the whole process of academic writing, editing and publishing much quicker and easier.
Go to the Toronto Metropolitan University Overleaf portal to claim your free Overleaf Professional account:
https://www.overleaf.com/edu/torontomu
OR
Sign-up using your institution-affiliated email address using this link:
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Contact Nora Mulvaney, Engineering Librarian, at nmulvaney@torontomu.ca for assistance with setting up your Overleaf account or scheduling an Overleaf training session.
For technical questions, please email support@overleaf.com
Real-time collaboration in your browser!
The convenience of an easy-to-use manuscript editor, with real-time collaboration and structured, fully typeset output produced automatically in the background as you type. Prefer to edit directly in LaTeX? Overleaf provides a full collaborative online LaTeX editor you can switch to at any time.
Short Video Introduction to Overleaf
Interactive Online Introduction to LaTeX
Overleaf offers the following features that ease collaborative research, writing and publishing workflows:
Real-time preview of projects to review your document while editing and writing - type on the left and see your finished document on the right.
Integrated, streamlined publishing allows you to submit immediately and directly to the journal of your choice with an integrated submission system to dozens of publishing partners.
Overleaf for Teaching - provide interactive demonstrations in class and easily create templated assignments on Overleaf for students, there's nothing to install for them to get started!
Overleaf is now offering free webinars! Topics and levels vary and more information can be found by visiting the
Overleaf Webinars page!
You will also find a number of recorded webinars for play on demand.
Short video introduction to the main features of Overleaf.
Free online LaTeX course by John Lees-Miller, co-founder of Overleaf.
Part 1: The Basics
Part 2: Structured Documents & More
Part 3: Not Just Papers: Presentations & More
The course was developed for the University of Bristol and the slides are open source and permissively licensed (MIT), so you are free to remix them for use in your own courses.
Read more about Overleaf and ShareLaTeX joining forces here