My Account · user guide for readers and book buyers
Read, buy and keep it all in one place
A free visitor account lets you buy articles, chapters, issues, e-books and printed books, and find everything you bought again later. Open Access articles can be read without an account.
Freeaccount, verified by email
Articles & chaptersPDF and full text
Booksprinted and digital
Library accessthrough your institution
Orderstrack and pay later
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Register (free)
- Click New user register here on the sign-in page, or Register at the top of any page.
- Fill in your name, email, phone and country, and choose a user name and password.
- We email you a one-time code; type it in to confirm your email address. The code is valid for 10 minutes; you can ask for a new one.
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Sign in
- Open Sign In and enter your email or User ID and your password. The button shows the password as you type it.
- Forgot your password? Click Lost your password?; a reset link comes to your email.
- If you sign in while buying or opening an article, you return to the same place afterwards.
- After 5 wrong tries, sign-in pauses for 15 minutes.
Authors, reviewers and editors use the Manuscript Portal instead (the boxes on the right of the sign-in page). One person can have both accounts.
My Account menu
| Menu item | What you find there |
|---|---|
| My Bookstore Orders | Your bookstore orders with their status and delivery address, and any unpaid orders. |
| Subscriptions | Journals or books you subscribe to, with the start and expiry dates. |
| My Library Access | Join your institution’s library to read what it has bought. |
| My E-Prints | Access codes you bought for an article, to share with others. |
| Purchased Books | Books bought from the Books section. |
| Purchased Articles / Chapters | Download the PDF or read the full text of each article or chapter you bought. |
| Purchased Volumes / Issues | Whole issues or volumes you bought. |
| Purchased Bookstore | Bookstore books you bought; digital editions open with Read Book. |
| My Profile | Your details, delivery address and password. |
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Read and buy articles & chapters
- Open Access articles are free to read and download, with or without an account.
- For other articles and book chapters, choose to buy the article or chapter, or the whole issue or volume, and pay online.
- What you buy stays in your account: open Purchased Articles / Chapters to Download the PDF or read the full text, at any time.
- e-Prints: buy access codes for an article (for example to give to students or colleagues). My E-Prints → View Token lists the codes, and Generate CSV downloads them.
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Buy books
- Browse the Book Store. Each book can come as Hard Copy, Paperback, Online (PDF), Kindle or Audio; choose the type, add it to the cart and check out.
- For printed books, give the delivery address (your saved address is offered) and pay online.
- Digital editions open from Purchased Bookstore → Read Book.
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Your orders
- My Bookstore Orders lists each order; View shows the books, amounts, delivery address and status (for example Dispatched or Delivered).
- Orders that were started but not paid are shown separately: Complete payment or Remove them.
If money was taken from your account but the order is not listed, please do not pay again. Write to office@gathacognition.com with your payment reference and we will confirm your order.
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Library access
- If your university, college or institute library has bought our books or subscribes to our journals, you can read them from your own account.
- Open My Library Access and join with the library’s invite code, or with your institutional email (we email a code to that address to confirm it).
- Membership lasts one year; renew the same way.
- Librarians: see For Librarians to set up access for your members.
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Your profile
- My Profile has three parts: your details, My Address (phone and address, offered as the delivery address at checkout) and Change Password.
- Sign out with Logout at the end of the menu, especially on a shared computer.
Help
Questions about your account, a payment or an order?
Write to us.
For an order or payment, please quote the order number or payment reference.