Feeding the feeds on R4DUsing the Research4Development Research portal R4D

to store and disseminate your research findingsMartin Parr (CABI), Chris Addison (EUFORIC)

R4D is only as good as its content will allow

It contains details of 5,000 projects

…and 18,000 documents

and alerts thousands of users every day when we add new content

It should include your research

The home page of R4DThe home page of R4D

Users access your content via search engines and feedsUsers access your content via search engines and feeds

These include targeted feeds These include targeted feeds from R4D on particular from R4D on particular themes and countriesthemes and countries

Each feed contains new Each feed contains new content added to R4D on a content added to R4D on a particular subjectparticular subject

For ‘Agriculture’ any relevant For ‘Agriculture’ any relevant news, success stories, new news, success stories, new projects or project documents projects or project documents that we add to R4D go into the that we add to R4D go into the feeds each dayfeeds each day

These are sent to users as These are sent to users as feeds, including website feeds, including website feeds or email alertsfeeds or email alerts

Targeted feeds can be Targeted feeds can be delivered to users in several delivered to users in several ways, via:ways, via:

•a Google personal page,a Google personal page,•a Newsfeed,a Newsfeed,•as code which can be used as code which can be used to integrate the feed on your to integrate the feed on your website,website,•as a PDF, etcas a PDF, etc

R4D alerts delivered by R4D alerts delivered by newsfeed can also be used to newsfeed can also be used to set up targeted alerts via set up targeted alerts via emailemail

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11 Confirm you want to receive Confirm you want to receive a targeted alert via emaila targeted alert via email

22 When you receive a When you receive a verification request, click the verification request, click the linklink

33 To receive confirmation of To receive confirmation of your email subscriptionyour email subscription

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You can create your own You can create your own targeted feeds from our targeted feeds from our project database, to create for project database, to create for example a feed of new example a feed of new outputs from a particular outputs from a particular programmeprogramme

We can help you set up more We can help you set up more complex feedscomplex feeds

R4D is only as good as its content will allow

It should include your research

How do I ensure my research on R4D is up-to-date?

To submit documents, click hereTo submit documents, click here

1 1 Register to login, and when Register to login, and when you receive a password enter you receive a password enter the pagethe page

2 2 Opt to register a new Opt to register a new document, or revise an document, or revise an existing submissionexisting submission

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33 Complete details in the Complete details in the online form and select submitonline form and select submit

44 The structured content you The structured content you have provided is emailed to have provided is emailed to you and usyou and us

55 If you haven’t given us an If you haven’t given us an address for the document you address for the document you will have to email it to us as will have to email it to us as an attachmentan attachment

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Please contact us for further information:

www.Research4development.info

Martin ParrProgramme ManagerCIMRCm.parr@cabi.org