Getting started
Welcome to Researchpages.net.
If you already have a login and want to get started, you’ve come to the right place. If you want to request an account on ResearchPages (at this stage signup is by request to the webmaster only), please go to request_login.
what does it do?
Principally, ResearcPages is a CMS (content management system). The idea behind a CMS is that site administrators and site users can create content for the site through the website itself i.e. the editing interface is integrated with the viewing interface and everything is done through your web browser.
As well as a CMS in the classic sense – where you have permission, you can edit a page / add a new one and change the words that appear on that page – there are also a series of ‘web-apps’ – essentially tables in the database for other types of content. For example, you can add publications to the publications database, which then appear in brief on your personal page (/people/your-name/) and in full your publications page (/people/your-name/publications).
Resources (files you want to share / include in your pages on the site) work in a similar way.
Where do I start?
Your best bet is to click on the ‘My Page’ link at the top of the page. This is your ‘profile’ page – the one that people will see when they look for you on ResearchPages. There you may
- add some publications to the database (instant gratification as they will appear on your personal page next time you visit it)
- see which groups you are a member of (if any). Note that for each group you are a member of, another instance of your personal page will exist at ’/group/people/your-name/’. This will contain the same user-generated content, but may look a bit different – if the group has its own stylesheet – and has some slightly different dynamically-generated content around the edges. See
- /people/martin-johnson/
- /esmg/people/martin-johnson/
for an example of this
- Edit your personal page (in the example above the ‘research interests’ bit is created through the CMS interface
- Create new pages below your personal page – on these ones you may add sidebars and create any content that you wish.
- Add resources e.g. copies of your posters / papers / reports et.
- Post to your blog
Home page
Your private home page is a good base from which to browse your network of groups and friends on ResearchPages. Here you receive notifications of activity on the site by groups, and group members and friends. There are also links to all of your friends and groups, and a directory of pages which you are an editor of.
Tell me more!
I have tried to document features ‘in situ’ i.e. as you come to need knowledge of how a particular thing works, the info should be there on the page, rather than hidden away in a help document. However, this effort is far from complete, as is the help section . If you get stuck or have any queries, or wish to report a bug, please email .