For over a year through 2016 to 2017 a CERN-wide trial of collaborative authoring platforms took place, aiming at understanding the authoring habits of the CERN community and gathering user requirements. As a result, the Overleaf cloud platform is now fully available to the CERN Community.
Overleaf is a collaborative, cloud-based writing platform with over 3.9 million users worldwide as of early 2019. It's helping to make the process of writing, editing and publishing scientific documents quicker and easier for students, teachers and researchers alike.
Overleaf was founded by two mathematicians in 2012. They had been working on a project involving many partners to build...