Wilfrid Laurier University on Overleaf

Wilfrid Laurier University is providing Overleaf Professional features for all students, faculty and staff who would like to use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects. Overleaf Professional features include real-time track changes, unlimited collaborators, and full document history.

Overleaf is designed to make the process of writing, editing and producing your research papers and project reports much quicker for both you and your collaborators. Overleaf can also be linked to other services to best fit into your workflow.

Overleaf is a solution provided and supported by the Office of Research Services for use by Laurier faculty, staff, and students.

As per Policy 9.5 External Information Technology and Cloud Services Policy, a Privacy and Security Impact Assessment has been completed for Overleaf and this solution has been approved for use with Internal (type 2) Information. Overleaf has not been evaluated for use with Restricted (type 3) Information. Please view the Policy 3.4 Data Classification and Information Management for more information on data types.

Before utilising this solution, users should be aware of the following:

• While Laurier has access to aggregated metrics, others at the university will not have access to User’s projects without the User granting permission.
• Users are encouraged to download a backup of their project if concerned about the retention of their research product.
• Users should be aware that as a cloud-based solution, the data you provide to Overleaf is not stored on Laurier servers and may be stored outside of Canada.

If you have questions or would like more detail about how your personal information and research product is stored and retained in Overleaf, please contact Charity Parr-Vasquez at cparrvasquez@wlu.ca or see Overleaf’s Privacy Notice.

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