Overleaf, creators of the leading online collaborative writing platform for researchers, have a new technology service available for publishers and institutions – the Overleaf LaTeX Validation Service. This new service enables publishers and other third parties to more easily process LaTeX manuscripts for publication, saving time for authors and providing publishers with improved consistency and quality control.
The idea is simple: to address the common cause of problems in the traditional submission process, where a journal or repository cannot reproduce the author's view of the compiled manuscript due to missing files or mismatched software versions. This typically causes a lot of problems, because from the author's perspective, everything already looks correct. Overleaf eliminates this issues by providing authors and editors with the same view of the document; that which was compiled and validated using Overleaf.
In this way, the service offers a robust solution to the challenges of managing LaTeX submissions, allowing third parties to use the Overleaf technology and servers to handle all of their LaTeX compilations automatically, via a managed Application Programming Interface (API).
What happens if a file fails to validate? In this case, authors or editors can be provided with a facility to open the LaTeX file on Overleaf, to use the user-friendly interface to quickly find and fix errors in the document, and resubmit through the validation service.
It can save a lot of time and frustration on all sides, especially if authors are travelling and do not have access to a LaTeX installation—for instance, when attending a conference or working at another institution.
All services will also include full LaTeX technical support via Overleaf's current support system and personnel, as well as a metrics and analytics dashboard to provide statistics such as the number of compilations processed each day. Partners can choose to implement the service in a number of ways, and can also work with Overleaf to enhance and customise the service to meet publisher-specific validation and workflow requirements.
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