ResearchVitae Pro
The full editing kit, free to earn.
The free page is complete, and stays that way. Pro is for the researcher who wants the whole type case: every layout, every palette, item-by-item control over what shows. During the beta nothing is for sale: preview all of it on your own page, and earn Pro by referral.
The beta deal
Refer a colleague. You both get a month of Pro.
Share your link
Your sharing URL lives in the editor. Copy it and send it to the colleague whose faculty page still says 2009.
You both go Pro
The moment they sign in, their page is published and a month of Pro lands on both accounts: theirs as a welcome, yours as thanks.
Months bank for launch
Earned months don't count down during the beta. They bank, and start counting at launch. Earn up to twelve: a year of Pro, free.
Hear when 1.0 lands.
We will never email you. We don't even collect your address. This opt-in newsletter is the one way to hear when 1.0 lands.
A hosted form: no scripts, no tracking on this site.
Design control
12 layouts, one record.
Every layout renders the same synced ORCID record. Switch any time and your content carries over. Quarterly, Press and Air are free; Pro unlocks the other 9.
A quiet serif journal: sidebar credentials, generous margins.
Front-page energy: a giant nameplate and hard black rules.
Whitespace as structure: no rules, no borders, one quiet blue.
A fielded record sheet: mono labels, hairline grid, no ornament.
Ceremonial and centered: engraved ornaments, justified prose.
Soft cards and pills: reads like a polished product page.
Print-shop poster: hard borders, harder shadows, riso pink.
A scholar's book page: engraved rules, small capitals, years in the margin.
Strictly Swiss: a single red rule, a big grid, and nothing it doesn't need.
Scrapbook energy: tape, stickers, and a page that doesn't take itself too seriously.
A small scholarly volume: running head, hanging indents, a colophon.
Two stocks, one binding: an inverted credentials rail beside clean text.
‡ More curated layouts, colour schemes and type pairings are added over time; Pro always includes all of them.
Colour, recut for any layout
Every palette works on every layout. Eight of the 40 shown.
Free includes 3.
Head and body, paired
Serif journals, Swiss grotesques, mono record-sheets: swap the voice without touching the layout.
Free includes 3.
The fine adjustments
Spacing, line height and type scale: tighten a long record, or let a short one breathe.
Free is set to the defaults.
Curation
Your record, your cut.
ORCID still owns the facts; Pro decides what makes the page, item by item.
Reorder sections
Drag sections into the order your field expects: funding first, teaching last, however your discipline reads a CV.
Hide individual items
Curate works one by one, and hide individual links from your record too. Hiding whole sections is free; the item-by-item cut is the Pro part.
Custom links
Add the links ORCID doesn't have: your lab site, a scheduler, a preprint server profile.
Custom text blocks
Prose with minimal markdown, placeable anywhere on the page: a teaching statement, news, office hours.
Social links
Paste your GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky, Scholar and more — each shows as its own icon, recoloured to fit the layout.
Page extras
And the rest of the kit.
Header image
Upload a header image for the top of your page. The profile photo upload is free, on any plan.
Unlimited publications
The full back catalogue, rendered, with no cap. Free pages show your most recent 50.
On-demand ORCID sync
Pull your record in the moment it changes, up to five times a week. Every page also syncs itself fortnightly.
Banner off
The small "published free on ResearchVitae" note comes off your page.
Try it all, free
See your page in all 12 layouts, refer a colleague to unlock.
Anyone with a free page can preview every Pro layout, palette and pairing live in the editor, on your own real page, not a demo. Previews are never saved; nothing changes unless you go Pro.
For the record
What stays free.
Pro is the full kit, not rescue from a stripped-back free tier. These never move behind the paywall:
- Your published page, no time limit
- Fortnightly ORCID sync
- Show or hide whole sections
- Name, title & bio overrides
- Publication sort order
- Profile photo upload, or an initials monogram
- Quarterly, Press & Air layouts, 3 palettes, 3 pairings
‡ The free page is a complete product on its own; Pro is the full kit on top, never rescue from a stripped-back one.
Earning Pro
Refer a colleague; you both get a month.
Share your link from the editor. The moment your colleague signs in, their page is published and a month of Pro lands on both accounts. Months don't count down during the beta. They bank, and start at launch. Earn up to a year.
Try the whole type case on your own page.
Sign in with your iD (you're already published) and preview every Pro layout on your own record. Pro is free to earn during the beta, and it never holds your page hostage.
Create your free page