General

1. How do I add a university?
   Visit the 'Departments' page, then click on the 'Add University' link on the right of the tree.
2. How do I add a department?
   First select a university by clicking on its name, then click the 'Add Department' button below the university box.
3. How do I add a research interest?
   First navigate to the Research Interests tree. To add a sub-research interest, navigate to the parent and then click the 'Add Research Interest at this level' button.
4. How do I drag the tree from left to right?
   Click on the background and drag it to move the tree.
5. How do I fix a spelling mistake in my department or university name?
   Click on the [edit] link in the top left hand corner of the department or university box.
   
   If you notice a spelling error you can't fix, then email us at and we'll fix it for you.
6. 'The full Academia.edu feature set requires Adobe Flash Player.'
   The main tree on Academia.edu uses Flash. If you see this message, you probably don't have Flash installed. If you do have Flash installed, e.g. you can watch YouTube videos, which are all in Flash, and still see this message, then please email us at .

Account

1. How do I change my email notifications?
   Go to your 'My Account' page, under the section titled 'Notifications' select your options and click save.
2. How do I change my password?
   To change your password, visit your 'My Account' page and enter a new password in the Password (twice) to change your password.
3. How do I reset my password?
   To reset your password, go to the 'Login' page and click on the 'reset password' link, enter your email and click on the 'Email me the link' button.
4. How do I remove my account?
   Go to 'My Account', and click on 'Remove' at the bottom.
5. Facebook Connect is not working for me.
   If you are having any problems with Facebook Connect, send us an email at explaining what is going wrong, and we'll fix it.

Webpage

1. How do I change my department or university?
   You can change your affiliation details by editing your webpage. Click on the '(edit)' link next to 'My Webpage' in the top navigation bar — you can change your university or department from there.
2. Can I affiliate with multiple institutions?
   Right now, we don't support that, but we will add this functionality soon. For the moment, we suggest that you affiliate with one of them, and you can add the other later.
3. I can't find my Academia.edu page on Google.
   Google sometimes takes a while to update its index with new pages on the web. However, if you link to your Academia.edu page from the website of your department or college (ask your department IT officer), that will speed up this process dramatically. It will also mean that your Academia.edu page appears significantly higher up in the search results.
4. What are keywords?
   Keywords are search queries that people have used on Google, and other search engines, to find your pages on Academia.edu.
5. How do I add a paper?
   Click '(edit)' next to 'My Webpage' in the top navigation bar, on the following page click 'Add a Paper', enter the details of your paper and upload the document if desired, and then click the 'Save' button.
   
   You can also use the above steps to upload talks, teaching documents and books.
6. How do I re-upload a paper or upload a paper document to an existing saved paper entry?
   Paper uploads must be done before the paper is saved and cannot be attached later. Create a new paper entry with the document attached. To do this click the 'edit' link next to 'Papers' on your webpage, then click the 'Add Paper' button.
7. How do I add a photo?
   Click '(edit)' next to 'My Webpage' in the top navigation bar, click the 'Choose File' button in the upper left corner, select your photo file, and click the 'Upload Photo' button.
8. How do I add/remove research interests?
   Click '(edit)' next to 'My Webpage' in the top navigation bar, click 'edit' next to 'Research Interests', use the search box or browse the list of Research Interest and click the 'Add' button next to the interest you wish to add. To remove interests click the 'Remove' button in either the browsing window or your 'Current Research Interests' section.
9. How do I change my CV?
   To change your CV you must first remove your current CV. To remove your CV click '(edit)' next to 'My Webpage' in the top navigation bar, then click the 'edit' link next to 'CV' on your edit page, and lastly click the "Change/Remove Curriculum Vitae" at the bottom of the page. Once your old CV is removed you can add a new CV by clicking the button 'Click here to Upload a Curriculum Vitae'

Networking

1. What is the difference between following someone and adding them as a contact?
   The difference is that following someone doesn't require the person's approval; adding them as a contact does require their approval. The point of the 'follow' feature is so that your News Feed can contain updates from the people whose work you know, but whom you don't know directly.
2. How do I stop "following" someone?
   Go to your webpage, in the right navigation click the 'Following' link, then click the 'Stop following' link on the right side of the page.
3. How do I remove someone from my contacts?
   Go to your webpage, in the right navigation click the 'Contacts' link, then click the 'Remove from Contacts' link on the right side of the page.

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