Overton walkthrough for Oxford University
Overton is the world’s largest database of policy documents, indexing over 7 million policy documents from around the world and making them full-text searchable. During this workshop, participants will become familiar with Overton’s data and the three main search modes available in the platform. We will cover how to use Overton to see where research is cited in policy, where people are mentioned in policy and how to use Overton as a grey literature search tool.

Intended audience: Researcher & research student; Staff
Date: 11 December 2025, 11:00
Venue: Online via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Organising department: Bodleian Research and Learning Support
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/workshops#/course/OXFORDBODL/ISKILL0079
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University of Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals and Bodleian reader card holders.
Editors: Helen Bond, Melanie Smith