# Sign Up / Sign In

In 2025, we released the User Accounts feature, allowing anyone to create a free account and log in. Click the User Icon in the navigation menu of <https://pdap.io> to sign up or sign in.

## Benefits of user accounts

* [Follow searches](/features/follow-a-search.md) to get notified when new data is added
* Make Requests to get help finding data or with a larger research project
* Submit new Data Sources to our database, making it better for everyone
* Participate in [Data Labeling](/activities/data-source-annotation.md), another way of adding sources to the database.


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.pdap.io/features/sign-up-sign-in.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.
