Signing up for APLS

Once you have an APLS login, you can access APLS through your browser at https://apls.pitt.edu/labbcat.1

On this page
  1. Request a user account
  2. Read the terms of use
  3. Initial login
  4. Later logins
  5. Forget your password?

Request a user account

Request a user account here. (Don’t worry, we’ll approve your request! It’s just the way our registration system is set up.) We’ll send you a username and temporary password within 1 US business day.

Read the terms of use

While you wait for your username and temporary password, you can read the terms of use. When you first log in to APLS, you’ll be asked to agree to these terms.

Initial login

Once you have a username and temporary password, you can log in to https://apls.pitt.edu/labbcat:

There are two additional things you’ll only need to do the first time you log in:

  1. You’ll see a page with the terms of use (identical to the terms of use page on this site). Scroll to the bottom and click I Agree.

  2. Then you’ll see a prompt to reset your temporary password. Enter your new password and click Change Pass Phrase.

Later logins

You’ll see this login prompt every time you load APLS in a new browser session (that is, if you close all tabs). If you close the tab(s) for APLS but don’t close your browser completely, you can reopen APLS in a new tab without logging back in.

Forget your password?

If you forget your password, fill out the password-reset form. We’ll reset your password within 1 US business day.

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  1. Advanced users can also access APLS via the nzilbb.labbcat package for R, or the nzilbb-labbcat library for Python. These packages have most of the functionality of the browser-based graphical user interface (https://apls.pitt.edu/labbcat), with some added benefits such as reproducibility (e.g., a particular set of search criteria can be encoded in R/Python code rather than described for copy/paste). Even if you plan to mostly use these interfaces, however, it’s a good idea to learn the browser-based GUI first, as it will help you build an intuitive sense for how APLS data is organized. ↩