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Your Research Project Space

Immediately after registering your Your research project , you will be directed to the project's dedicated Confluence space. This space and any pages it contains will only be accessible by members of the research team.This space can be thought of as a Research Notebook; pages can be easily added and collaborated on. Confluence is a powerful wiki-based environment, for a brief overview of how to edit and add pages then have a look at the pages on this sitewill have its own space within confluence, which the GeCIP team will create on your behalf. This space is where all members of the project can create and edit pages. You can use this space for writing updates on your project, problem solving, writing up your methods/results, etc. The home page is automatically created when you submit your project and you can customise this in any way you like. Only those who are listed as co-researchers can edit the pages within your project’s space, but all GeCIP members can view them. This space and any pages it contains will only be accessible to those with access to the Research Environment.

If you want to make the page private then you can edit the page restrictions by clicking on the 3 dots menu in the top right hand corner. Then navigating to "Restrictions". Here you can name the users that you want to be able to view and edit the space.

You should include all researchers who are expected to be authors on any publication resulting from this project as co-researchers. For GeCIP members who have received account details for the Research Environment, you will be able to add them by searching for their name. If anyone working on the project does not have an account for the Research Environment (yet), you can add them as ‘external contributors’ on the page after you have selected co-researchers; you will need their full name and email address in order to do this.

Note, external collaborators will not be able to view and interact with the project space in Confluence as they will not have the necessary credentials to log into the Research Environment.

Creating Publications

There is the option to use Confluence to prepare your publication draft. Although it may not have all the formatting options available in word processors, Confluence is ideal for collaborating on text and will allow you to:

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