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The following information is also provided here in a downloadable and printable PDF file.
Los instrucciónes para la base de datos Global-Local, en Espanol.
To enter the database as a guest, simply click on the 'Guest Access' login button from any 'Research Locations' page. Guests can search the database but not upload or download files.
To enter the database as a 'Registered User' you need to be associated in some way with one of the projects conducted within the Community Sustainability overall project. Only people who are approved as participants by a Site Manager will have their registrations approved. To express interest in joining a project please go to the Submit to this Site page and fill in the form provided there. There you will be asked to read and agree to the ethical considerations we ask participants to follow in using the database. If your registration is approved you will receive a confirmation email with a Username and a Password within a few days.
Once you have entered the database, to view the materials for your research location, simply click on the arrow ( ) to the left of the location name.
This will begin expanding out into a 'tree' of subject headings or 'Categories'. Click on any
() and more Categories will appear.
If you then click on an underlined Category you will see the materials stored under that heading in the main screen area.
If you are a Guest, you will only be able to see records and the thumbnail images of the contents of the collection. If you are a Registered User you will be able to upload or download materials.
To view materials collected under the same headings at other research locations, simply click on the arrow () to the left of 'Global'.
To Log Out and return to our Research Locations page, simply click on the button at the right-hand end of the green bar that runs across the upper part of the screen.
Functions on the ScreenIn the green bar across the upper part of the screen there are six functions. The simplest are Search, Search Result, Find All and Logout.
Search: all items in the catalogue have a caption, a description, a filename, keywords and categories associated with them (for more on assigning these to files, see below). All the words in those 'fields' are searchable using this function.
Search Result: this displays the outcome of a given search.
Find All: if you click find all it will show all the records in the whole database. You can then browse them page by page.
Logout: when you have finished using the database, please click on Logout and you will be taken back to the Research Location main page.
There are two more advanced functions.
Advanced Search: this allows you to combine one or more search terms and to search within an existing search.
Collection Basket: when you are a Registered User this allows you to keep the results of a search as a 'collection'. In 'Details View' (see below) if you click on the record name it opens out a menu the last option of which is 'Add to Collection Basket'.
Below this bar there are a series of icons.
The first four give you different different views of records in the collection:
Thumbnail View: this shows you a thumbnail image of the record, and is where you can 'download' an item from the database if you are a Registered User simply by clicking on 'Download'. (Guest users are not able to see the 'Download' button.)
Details View: this view gives the filename, file size, date of entry into the database and any subsequent modification of the file
Record Information: this view gives you all the information by which an item in the database is searchable (caption, description, keywords) and gives detailed information on the item.
Preview: this function is only available for image files, and gives a preview of the image.
  
The next three buttons are used to gain a small, medium and large view of the thumbnail images, but the large view is currently unavailable due to the general database settings.
 
The last two buttons allow you to alter the number of items that appear on the screen in the Thumbnail View as you are searching or browsing. The button on the left allows you to increase (+) or decrease (-) the number of columns and the button on the right allows you to increase (+) or decrease (-) the number of rows.
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An on-line, searchable database of research materials on Global Cities themes.
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Global-Local-Database-Procedures.pdf
