1. Site basics

1.1 Accessing the site
1.2 ResearchResearch Lite
1.3 Getting started
1.4 A typical page
1.5 The 4 databases
1.6 Browser requirements

2. Searches and email alerts

2.1 Database searches
2.2 Understanding email alerts
2.3 Setting up email alerts in one go
2.4 Setting up email alerts as you browse the site

3. Finding funding for your research

3.1 Funding opportunities, programmes and news
3.2 "Funding opportunities" vs "Sponsors"
3.3 Listings of funding opportunities
3.4 Using our thesaurus of disciplinary keywords
3.5 The hierarchical indexing schema
3.6 "Broad" vs "Exact" matches for index keywords
3.7 7 strategies for finding funding

4. Keeping up with the news

4.1 Research Day and other news publications
4.2 Browsing a publication online
4.3 Searching the archives
4.4 Getting publications by email
4.5 Setting up personalised email alerts for news

5. Sharing information with Bookmarks & magazines

5.1 Work options
5.2 Magazine options

6. Specifying your expertise profile

7. Managing your account

7.1 Accessing your profile pages

8. Acknowledgements 

1. Site Basics

1.1 Accessing the site

You must be on a UTA networked computer to access the full range of features available on ResearchResearch.com. Once you have obtained a user name and password by entering the requested information on the form found here you will be able to access some of the advanced features from a non-networked computer.

New (10/14/05): Users on campus can now register themselves for a personal account without going through the administrator. To register, users should visit the ResearchResearch website and then click the link on the right hand side ³Apply for a personal account².

You can tell whether your computer has access to ResearchResearch by going to http://www.ResearchResearch.com. If UTA’s logo appears at the top of the right-hand toolbar, you do have access. If your institution's name does not appear, you don't have access and should request a password and login through the website above or by contacting your Grant and Contract Specialist.

Access from your computer at home, and additional personalized services such as email alerts of new funding opportunities, are only available with a username and password.

Some of the features on the ResearchResearch website will require the use of pop-up windows. Please ensure that pop-ups are enabled before reporting any difficulties with a feature.

1.2 ResearchResearch Lite

ResearchResearch Lite is a free service provided at http://lite.researchresearch.com. It contains a restricted range of content and has only cut down functionality, but uses the same underlying interface and technology as the main ResearchResearch site.

Since UTA has access to the full ResearchResearch site, please use the main site at http://www.researchresearch.com should you be misdirected to ResearchResearch Lite.

1.3 Getting started

Every institution has its own Start page with guidance tailored to the needs of its own users. If you have secured a user name and password or are on a UTA networked computer and do not see the UTA logo in the upper right hand corner of the start page, go to the right hand side of the page and click on the "Start page" link.

1.4 A typical page

Every page on ResearchResearch has the same basic framework:

Quick search box (top right – light green arrow) Help bar (top – yellow arrow) Navigation bar (left side – orange arrow) Central panel and links (red arrow) Account bar (right side – blue arrow)

Simple search box

You can search through all the material on ResearchResearch at any time with the Quick search box. Choose any of the databases, News, Funding Opportunities, Funding Organizations or Jobs (Jobs currently maintains only U. K. listings) using the drop down menu. Click OK to activate your search.

The search works in the same way as a search on an Internet search engine. You can enter a phrase, e.g. "AIDS in Africa", and get results ranked in order of relevance. Even if there is no exact match for your phrase, the closest results will still be displayed.

If you want more exact control over your searches, including logical operators and the ability to get at individual fields in the databases, you can use the more advanced Database Search options which are available on the Navigation bar after clicking on any of the databases.

The pale blue bar at the top and bottom of every page gives you access to all the Help resources on ResearchResearch.

You can always get back to the Home page by clicking the "Home" button or the ResearchResearch logo. This will take you to ResearchResearch’s home page, not the UTA home page. To return to the UTA home page, please click on the Start Page link indicated in section 1.3 above.

The "Help" button provides page-specific advice for many pages. If guidance is available, the word Help appears in white. If the word is grey, no guidance is available from ResearchResearch for that page. You may however, contact your specialist for assistance.

The "FAQ" button provides access to web pages dealing with frequently asked questions. You can also email the Support Desk from here.

The "User Guide" button provides access to the latest version of this document, as web pages, Microsoft Word or PDF format. The user guide on the ResearchResearch website is not specific to UTA.

Navigation bar

Navigation to all pages on the site is provided via the left hand Navigation bar. Hover your mouse over links in order to see tips about where the links take you. The "Site sections" (blue arrow) part provides access to the complete databases of information available on ResearchResearch. If you want access to, for example, the entire database of funding opportunities, this is the place to come. The "Territories" section (green arrow) gives access to our publications around the globe. For example, the "USA" section contains links both to Research Day: USA and the research area specific publications.

Central panel and links

The substance of the material on ResearchResearch appears in the central panel. This is where you will enter the information for your searches and find your results.

Account bar

Everything that is related to your personal account is mediated via the Account bar (blue arrow) on the right side of the screen. From the top, several sections may appear here, depending on where you are on the site. Links from the central panel to other items (if applicable) appear at the bottom of this bar.

Documentation bar

Background documentation on ResearchResearch including their policies on Privacy, Acceptable Use and Trading can be accessed via the bar at the bottom of any page.

1.5 The 4 databases

There are four linked databases of information on ResearchResearch:

News
Sponsors & programs
Funding opportunities (calls for proposals)
Jobs.

These contain all the relevant information from all of ResearchResearch’s publications. For example, the News database contains all the stories from the previous editions of Research Day as well as the current publications updated every two weeks, such as Research Day: USA.

You can access these databases by clicking on the links under Site sections.

1.6 Browser requirements

For all parts of the site, you will need either Netscape or Explorer, version 4 or higher.

Netscape version 4 users will see a visually different interface because that browser handles cascading style sheets poorly. ResearchResearch recommends that you upgrade your browser for an improved experience.

Additionally, ResearchResearch has discovered that some text displays poorly in Explorer 5 on Mac OS X. This has been adjusted where ever possible. Please notify the ResearchResearch support desk if you come across any examples.

2 Searches and email alerts

ResearchResearch offers you flexible ways of:

searching for information that matches your personal interests

arranging alerts by email about new information that matches your interests.

These features apply to all four databases - News, Funding opportunities, Sponsors and Jobs.

2.1 Database searches

As well as the "Simple search" box on every page (see 1.3 above), there are Database search pages for all four of our databases. These give you access to field-by-field searches across the databases, allowing for fine control over your search results. You must include a keyword in the box named “Any Text” (green arrow).

Once you have signed in with your username, you have the option to store any of the searches you perform for future reference. This way you can return to the site in future and re-run exactly the same queries.

Once signed in, whenever you perform a search a new section will appear in the right hand navigation bar entitled "Database search". Click on the link below (red arrow) and a new window will pop up (blue arrow). Here you can save the query by entering a name for it and clicking the “OK”.

To access your saved searches in future, click on the "Review my profile" link and then choose the "Database searches" option in the left bar

2.2 Understanding email alerts

You can use the flexible email alert options on ResearchResearch to ensure that you are alerted to all the news and funding opportunities you are interested in. You are given control over what material you are sent, meaning you can be sure that you are sent more of what you do want and less of what you don't.

You must be signed in with your username and password in order to set up your alerts. If you are browsing the site using your institution's site-wide access, you will need to obtain a password from your specialist before the on-screen options to set up alerts are available. Once signed in, you will be shown the "Email alerts" heading in the right bar (yellow arrow). Once you have followed the steps below, there will generally be two options underneath that you can click.

"Send me alerts" will start sending you emails right away.

"Save, but don't send me emails for now" will store your interest in your list of email alerts, so that you can re-run the search at will, but will not prompt any emails to be sent to you.

New (10/14/05): Users now have the additional ability to suspend email alerts while away on a trip or holiday.
They also have the option to receive their personalised funding opportunity alerts in a new email format. This format features BOTH HTML styling AND filtering of the opportunities to eliminate duplicates. So it is both easier on the eye and quicker to scan.

ResearchResearch uses the term "Email alerts" for personalized emails sent out with material that has been selected according to your chosen preferences. You can set up alerts for either funding opportunities or news items that match your interests. New items that match your profile will then be sent to you once a week.

You can also choose to receive some publications by email, for example, the listing of stories in the latest edition of Research Day USA is sent out every day. Emails like this, that are the same for everyone, are covered under section 3.4.

2.3 Setting up broad based email alerts

Click the "Set up email alerts" link (yellow arrow) in the right hand bar. This will take you to a page of on-screen guidance. Following the instructions there, you can set up several kinds of alerts. For news items, your alerts can only be based on matching a word or phrase you type in with the text of the news stories. For funding opportunities, you can also specify your interests as free text, but you also have more precise options. You can specify keywords from our thesaurus of 3500 index terms (eg Physics) through the Free Text option (blue arrow).

You can choose to receive alerts of all new opportunities from a Sponsor (green arrow) that interests you – (eg the National Science Foundation) by checking the box to the right of the sponsor’s name. Or you can choose to restrict your interest to one of the Sponsor's programs (eg the NSF Directorate for Engineering) by clicking on the name of the Sponsor and then checking the box to the right of the program name.

Once you have made your selection, you may choose to have any results emailed to you by clicking “send me alerts” (red arrow) or saving your alerts by clicking “save, but don’t send” (pink arrow). All of these alerts will be saved to your profile.

Note that if you have already established keyword preferences on the ScienceWise or Community of Science services, you can enter the same index terms here. All three of us use essentially the same thesaurus of index terms.

2.4 Setting up email alerts as you browse the site

As you browse and search the web pages on site, you will be given the option to set up email alerts for certain areas. Look for links in the right hand bar under the "Email alerts" heading.

You will see the option to set up email alerts when you browse the funding opportunities database by Sponsor or by Discipline. Select the checkboxes you are interested, then click the link in the right bar.

You will also see the option to save your search and therefore set up alerts when you perform a free text search on the news or funding opportunities database.

3 Finding funding for your research

3.1 Funding opportunities, programmes and news

There are two databases of funding information at ResearchResearch:

1. Funding opportunities covering requests for proposals and funding announcements

2. Sponsors & programs covering the funding programs run by sponsors.

These are connected by links so that you can click through from a sponsor to one of its programs and then to specific requests for proposals. And vice versa.

The two databases can be accessed from the left navigation bar as "Funding opportunities" and "Sponsors".

In addition, many of the news stories may be directly connected to sponsors and requests for proposals, in this case we also add links to the relevant information.

3.2 "Funding opportunities" vs "Sponsors"

Funding opportunity records are researched, verified, indexed and uploaded to the site day by day.

By contrast, profiles of programs and sponsors are researched and updated annually (or as major changes are announced). A copy of the proposed new entry is sent to the program managers so that they may make any corrections.

The program and sponsor profiles give a broad picture of the range of activity an organization funds. They are also indexed separately from the funding opportunities. This means they are an alternative first step in the search for funding that many experienced users prefer over the more obvious search for funding opportunities. Once a likely program has been identified, it is easier to see the funding opportunities in context and identify suitable funding targets. Alternatively, a call to the program manager may result in an opportunity to submit a proposal that is not evident from the text of calls for proposals.

3.3 Listings of funding opportunities

Often, advance information about what calls for proposals are expected in the future is available. This information is shared with you in the listings of funding opportunities in the Deadline column and in the Deadline field in funding opportunity records. You will see the following formats. In all cases, Closed calls are shown last.

1 Nov 03

A plain date indicates a call for proposals with a fixed deadline. If the call has a two-step application process the first due date is shown.

No deadline Call posted 1 Jun 02

Some sponsors do not specify a deadline for some calls. In this case the date on which the request is first posted on the site. Often, but not always, this is when the sponsor last promoted the call.

Next due 1 Feb 04

Where a call is repeated from time to time, you may find yourself in the gap between one call closing and the next one opening. Where the calls are on a well-established schedule, e.g. with many NIH calls in the US, the date of the next deadline is shown.

1 Aug 03 Next due 1/2/2004

Again, this deals with a repeated call, in this case when the upcoming deadline is a short time away. As above, the date the next deadline is expected is shown.

Call expected 1/10/2003

If there is advance knowledge of an upcoming call for proposals that has not yet been publicized, the due date is formatted this way. In this case, the earliest date the request is anticipated is shown. Click through to the record for further guidance.

Closed

If a program has been terminated by a sponsor, it is withdrawn from the relevant funding opportunities system and you will no longer find them in searches.

If there is no information about future calls but the program has not been withdrawn, you will see the word Closed. This does not mean that the call will not be repeated in future. It means that its status is unknown.

3.4 Using the thesaurus of disciplinary keywords

From the Home page, click through to "Funding opportunities" and then "by Discipline".

You can now browse around the hierarchical thesaurus of research fields. There are around 3500 terms in all. You can navigate as follows:

Use the A-Z links (e.g. P for Parkinson's Disease – red arrow) Click on the "Top" button and move down through the hierarchy (e.g. Biomedical > Disease entities > Parkinson's Disease – blue arrow) At any time, use the up or down arrows to move between the three levels in the hierarchy and broaden or narrow your choices (yellow arrow)

You can click through to see the funding opportunities in your field at any time by clicking on the index term itself (e.g. click on "Parkinson's Disease" to see opportunities indexed with that term)

Note that some index keywords appear in more than one place in the hierarchy. For example, "Biomedical engineering" appears under both "Biomedical" and "Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering".

3.5 The hierarchical indexing schema

The schema used on ResearchResearch has three levels. For example:

Biomedical (Top level - broad)

Disease entities (Middle)

Parkinson's Disease (Bottom - exact).

You can browse through the schema in the "by Discipline" pages under "Sponsors" or "Funding opportunities". Use the arrows to the left of the terms to navigate up and down through the levels (yellow arrow above).

3.6 "Broad" vs "Exact" matches for index keywords

Some sponsors offer funding for narrow specialities, e.g. Parkinson's Disease. Others might offer it for research into any disease. Still others might offer it for research into anything biomedical.

If your field of interest is the brain, then you are probably most interested in funding aimed specifically at Parkinson's. But you may also be interested in funding with broader objectives that is also available to you. The hierarchical indexing schema that we use allows us to make all this information available to you in a way that you can control.

"Exact" matches show you items that have been indexed with precisely the keyword you have specified.

"Broad" matches also show you:

3.7 Strategies for finding funding with ResearchResearch

Subscribe to the funding opportunities email that comes out every two weeks

You can subscribe to the email by signing in and clicking the "Review my portfolio" button in the right bar. These publications are divided by area of interest into “magazines” such a Bio, Physical, Social/Humanities.

Set up email alerts based on your disciplinary interests

Specify your interests, e.g. "Acoustic Tomography" from a list of 3500 terms by checking boxes in easy-to-navigate pages. See Searches and email alerts above for details.

Set up email alerts based on programs that interest you

From the Funding opportunities Database search page you can specify that you want to be notified of all new calls from specific sponsors, or even from specific programs run by a sponsor.

For example, you can choose to receive all funding opportunities from the NSF Mathematics program. See Searches and email alerts above.

Set up a portfolio of stored database searches

Once you've refined your searches you can store the queries for future use. See Searches and email alerts above for details.

4 Keeping up with the news

4.1 Research Day and other news publications

ResearchResearch’s news coverage ranges across research policy, funding and politics in over 30 countries around the world. Its brief is to report on anything that affects the environment that researchers operate in. This includes the funding environment created by government policies and major sponsors of research. But it goes much wider than that, covering the economic, social and ethical environment, as well as questions of manpower, intellectual property and exploitation.

ResearchResearch currently offers two distinct types of news publications:

Research Day (generally, though not always, published daily)

Flagship papers, divided by area of interest, published every two weeks.

All of these are created by our journalists for an audience in a particular territory. For example, Research Day: USA is a completely different publication to Research Day: Europe. They all take breaks or reduce their frequency during holiday periods when there is little news.

The editions of Research Day monitor the political scene, the progress of legislation, press releases from government departments, major sponsors, and leading media.

The chief selling point of the flagship papers is that they report news that no-one else is covering. The great majority of stories written for them never appear anywhere else. They also tend to go into more detail, add more context and explain why new developments matter. Plus they add comment and analysis from leading figures within the global research community.

4.2 Browsing a publication online

Select a publication from the left hand Navigation bar. You will be taken to the most recent edition of the publication. Links from here will also provide you with access to a list of back issues.

4.3 Searching the archives

In order to search across the entire news archives, go to the "News" link in the left navigation bar. You can restrict your search to a single publication or range across all of them using the "Database search" option just as you would a funding search. You also search publications month by month using the "Browse" option.

4.4 Getting publications by email

To arrange to receive the email version of a publication, sign in and choose the "Review my portfolio" button under "My account" and then click on “Publications” (red arrow). For the publications you wish to receive, check the "Email me" box (green arrow).

The emails you receive will not contain long articles. They will contain short summaries with links to enable you to read the full text on the web site.

You may need to sign in with your username and password to read the full text of items you click through to.

4.5 Setting up personalised email alerts for news

You can arrange to be sent emails whenever a new news story matches your criteria by storing your search. For example, search for "National Science Foundation" (yellow arrow). Then click the “save but don’t send” link (pink arrow) and a screen will appear with your search term highlighted. By clicking on the link you will reveal the results of your search. You will also have the option of emailing the individual links to yourself or colleagues. Along with the results, an additional "Email alerts" section will appear in the right hand bar. Click the link under this heading.

5 Sharing information with Bookmarks & magazines

ResearchResearch has features that allow you to collect, manage, edit and share information gathered from ResearchResearch with your colleagues within a single, simple interface. Using the checkboxes sprinkled around the site you can bookmark items of interest, add your own notes and then publish a collection to your colleagues as an online magazine. Magazines allow you to share research ideas and items of importance or interest with your collaborators. You must be logged in to access these features.

5.1 Work options

Once you have signed in with your username and password, the "Work" heading will appear in the Account bar on the right of your screen and you will be able to start using the magazine and bookmark features.

Because the magazine features require us to store details of items selected by you, you cannot use them without your own username. If you don't have one already, you can obtain one from the following link

Selecting items Use the checkboxes (red arrow) next to the item of interest to select the items you want to work with. Click the Select all check box to choose all the items in a list. Click it twice (but not too fast) to deselect them all. Emailing items Click the "Email" button (blue arrow) to send items to colleagues. You will be presented with a form with which to compose and send your email. You can send the email from here or click the link at the top of the window to send it using your own email program (see the next item for details of software requirements in this case).

To send the email, complete the following:

The message will appear to be sent from the email address stored in your account.

Using your own email program to share bookmarks and magazines

Many users prefer to use their own email program to send these emails because they have their address books stored there. In order to use your own email program, click the "here" link at the top of the window that pops up (yellow arrow).

The first time you use your own email program you should check that it works properly with our site. We use standard Internet protocols to pass the information from your web browser to your email program. Unfortunately, not all users have their machines correctly configured and some browsers and some email programs fail to adhere to the standards.

When you click the "here" link, the following should happen:

Double check that the URL has not been truncated or corrupted. If it has, recipients will not be able to click through to view the items.

If you have trouble with making your email program work properly with your browser, there is a simple work around: copy the URL from the web page and paste it into your email program.

Previewing emails

You can preview exactly what the recipients of an email will see when they click through to view items you have sent by clicking the Preview button

Downloading a plain text version

Click the "Download" link to view a plain text version of the items you have selected in a browser window. Windows users can use the right mouse button to save the file to disk. Mac users should hold the mouse button down for a few seconds to do the same.

5.2 Magazine options

Once you have signed in, you can click the "Magazines & bookmarks" link at any time to review your bookmarks and create magazines. For readers, these work in just the same way as the emails explained above. You send colleagues a URL in an email. They then open the mail and click on the link to read the magazine you have published. Bookmarking items Click the "Bookmark" button (red arrow) to save your items on your bookmarks page on ResearchResearch for future reference or for collection into a magazine.

Checking your Bookmarks and magazines

From the top of the page, all of the items you have bookmarked while browsing the solicitations and sponsors are listed in the following order:

Magazines (red arrow) News (blue arrow) Funding opportunities (yellow arrow) Funding programs (pink arrow) Funding organizations (orange arrow) Within these sections, the items you added most recently are shown first and this is the date shown with the item. Note that you now have additional options under the Work heading (green arrow).

Counting magazine views

Shown with each magazine is a counter that starts at "0 views" and ticks up by one each time anyone clicks through to read the magazine once it has been published.

Email, preview, download items

You can email items to colleagues, preview what those recipients will see and download plain text versions of items exactly as you can elsewhere on the site. See Work options above.

Adding notes

You can add your own notes to any item by clicking the "Add note" link on the item. You can add more than one note and, when publishing magazines, use the checkboxes to specify whether you want all the notes, some or none to be shown to readers.

Flagging items

You can flag selected items using the "Flag/Unflag" link in under the Work heading on the right of your screen. This places a red flag next to the selected items, alerting readers to the need to pay special attention.

Deleting bookmarks

Use the "Delete" button to permanently delete bookmarks.

Creating a magazine

Select the items you want to include in your magazine using the checkboxes.

By default, all the notes associated with an item are selected when you select the item. If you don't want to include all the notes, you can then deselect some of them. You cannot select a note without the corresponding item.

Click the "Collect into magazine" button under the Work heading. This will give you a form for entering a title for the magazine and a box for introductory text.

You can include links to web sites and email addresses outside ResearchResearch in your introduction. These links will be live for readers.

When you click OK, your magazine will be created and you will be given the chance to review it before publishing it.

The Magazine review page

When you create a magazine you are automatically placed in the Magazine review page so that you can check the magazine and make any changes before publishing it.

Alongside the magazine material itself, there are blue editing buttons shown with each item and a ticker counting the number of times users click through to read each individual item. Apart from these additions, this page is the same as the one readers see when they click through to view the magazine.

You can reach the Magazine review page at any time by clicking on the magazine title in the Bookmarks page.

Removing items from a magazine

From the Magazine review page, you can remove items that you do not wish to include.

Publishing a magazine

From the Magazine review page, select "Email this magazine" to place your magazine in circulation.

ResearchResearch does not provide you with a public web page where you can place links to your magazines. Your bookmarks page is personal to you. If you want to create a web page with links to your magazines, perhaps on the research section of your institution's internal web pages, copy the URL in the email dialog box and post this on your web page. Readers clicking on the URL will see your magazine.

Previewing a magazine

From the Magazine review page, you can obtain exactly the same view of a magazine as your readers by clicking the "Preview this magazine" button.

Withdrawing a magazine from circulation

If you decide that you no longer want anybody to be able to read your magazine, you can do so. Note that this is different from archiving the magazine (see below), which moves the magazine off your main Bookmarks page but still allows others to view it.

From the Magazine review page, click the "Withdraw this magazine" button.

Adding items to a magazine

To add items to a magazine, go to the main Bookmarks and magazines page. Select the items you want to add, then click the "Add items" button on the magazine of your choice.

Archiving bookmarks and magazines

From the main Bookmarks and magazines page, click the "Archive" button. The items you have selected will be removed from this page and placed in your personal archive. You can access the archive at any time by clicking the link at the top of the page.

6 Specifying your expertise profile

For the benefit of Grant and Contract Services, you can specify your fields of research expertise on ResearchResearch using the standard thesaurus of discipline keywords.

From the Home page, click through to "Funding opportunities" and then "by Discipline".

You can now browse around our hierarchical thesaurus of research fields. There are around 3500 terms in all. You can navigate as follows:

You can click through to see the funding opportunities in your field at any time by clicking on the index term itself (e.g. click on "Parkinson's Disease" to see opportunities indexed with that term)

Select the check boxes next to the discipline terms that interest you. Then go to the right hand bar and click one of the links under the heading "Email alerts". if you do not wish to receive emails, but just want to register your fields of interest, select the option to "Save, but don't send me emails for now".

Repeat until you are happy that your interests have been accurately specified.

Choosing your disciplinary interests will allow Grant and Contract Services to run funding searched tailored to your areas of interest. Not all of the results returned to you will be of specific interest, however, they may provide some guidance on funding trends and information about what areas are of interest to particular sponsors.

Please be advised that GCS cannot run searches for you unless you have chosen areas of interest. Please contact your specialist for additional information.

The items in your profile of expertise are only those listed in the by Discipline section of the Funding opportunities preferences. They appear in your profile for your Administrator whether or not you have ticked the Email checkbox. To remove an item from your profile, tick the Delete checkbox and then click OK.

7 Managing your account

Once you have signed in with your username and password, you can control the way your account is set up and the services that are delivered to you. You can for example change your email address, switch on and off the emails you are receiving or change your password.

New (10/14/05): A new, simpler interface has been developed to help users set up and manage their accounts more easily. The interface guides users through the stages involved in configuring their account step by step.

Tip: Most users have their email address as their username. If you tire of typing this in, most web browsers allow you to enter the string of characters in a preferences panel. Typing just the first couple of characters will then prompt the browser to fill in the rest.

7.1 Accessing your profile pages

You can access your profile pages by clicking the "Review my profile" button in the right bar.

From these pages you can control the way your account on ResearchResearch is set up. You have powerful tools here to control both the emails that are sent to you and your experience browsing around the web site. You can also use the features here as a set of shortcuts to take you to the information you are specially interested in each time you return to the site.

Publications

All the material on ResearchResearch belongs in one of our publications. These are data sets that you or your institution has purchased access to. Some of these are the online editions of well-known paper publications - eg the news in Research USA. Others, such as the various editions of Research Day, have no off-line equivalent.

if you do not want your search results clouded by results from irrelevant data sets, you can switch off access to a publication here. Uncheck the "Show in listings" box and click OK.

Some publications come with associated email notifications. For example, the Research USA News publication has an email that goes out every two weeks with a table of contents and highlights of the issue. You can switch these emails on and off using the "Email me" checkboxes.

News and Funding alerts

You can halt the emails we send you weekly by unchecking the Email me box of alerts you do not wish to receive. If you are sure you will not want to receive those alerts in future, you can use the delete box instead.

Tip: You can re-run the query that is the basis of your alert by clicking on the name of your alert.

Database searches

You can store complex search queries for future reference from any of the Database search pages on the site. (Once you have run the search, use the buttons in the right bar to save it).

Click on the name of a search to re-run it.

Personal details

Update your email address here. Or change your password.

If you would like to receive emails in a simple HTML format in future, for additional clarity and functionality, update your preference here. (Note that this feature is not currently active).

8 Acknowledgements

March 2005. This guide has been edited for use by UT Arlington. An unedited general version may be accessed on the ResearchResearch web site.

This guide was prepared using the online ResearchResearch User Guide (English. March 2003. Version 1.3). Portions have been modified to increase clarity, update information, and specify information pertinent only to The University of Texas at Arlington.