Why Register? Registration enables many features of our website that are otherwise unavailable. Our "Power Tools" allow you to email your friends and colleagues when you find information here that you'd like to share with them; participate in discussions on our content; annotate pages and rate pages... You'll also activate your own personal folder for storing your favourite pages for easy retrieval later. Furthermore, you'll be able to take part in our user polls and forums. Registration is free.

Verification: Submitting this form is only half of the registration process; an email will be sent to the email address you submit with instructions as to how to confirm your registration, along with your password. Therefore, it is essential that the email address you give us is valid.

Your Privacy: The information supplied here is not used for anything other than identification. Your details are never used for mass mailing (our mailing lists and other email services are operated on an "opt in" basis and are completely independent of registration). Under no circustances do we share registration details with third parties for any purpose other than law enforcement. We respect your privacy, you are completely free to register under an assumed name and using an anonymous email account - in fact, we recommend this.

The Fields

• "username" - the username you will use to login with.
• "display name" - your name (or alias), which will be used to identify you to others. This is displayed when you add comments to pages, post messages in the forums or send email via our website.
• "email address" - your email address. If you choose, others can email you via our website - your email address is never revealed, other users can only contact you via our re-mailer. Email you send does include your email address (as the sender).

You can change your details at any time by using "my settings".