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My organisation

In FSTA Direct, Administration provides access to configuration and account information, including reports on usage. The My organisation screen enables the Local Administrator to update contact and other information, configure account options, and to link to other areas of functionality.

Navigation to Administration: If Administration is set as your default landing page (see Preferences) then this is the screen you arrive at by default after logging in. You can navigate to Administration from the Home page or another Search screen by clicking on the Admin link in the dark blue menu bar.

1. Updating your organisation's details: address and contact fields can be edited in order to update or change contact information. Click on 'Apply' to confirm any changes you wish to make.
2. Account configuration:
   1. Single record view default: when a user clicks on a FSTA Direct record link from an email or RSS feed they are taken to a page that shows the record in some degree of detail; the amount of detail is set here. For prepay customers the default value is 'Title' (no charge for viewing this) and for other users the default is 'Full'. Click on 'Apply' to confirm any changes you wish to make.
   2. Get more units link: generates an email to IFIS to purchase more units (prepay customers only)
   3. Users use organisation units: in prepay accounts purchased units can be shared from a central allocation or allocated to individual users. When this box is checked units that remain in the central allocation are available to all users. Click on 'Apply' to confirm any changes you wish to make.
   4. Default users create accounts: when this option is selected, users that access FSTA Direct using an approved IP address range can create their own user account (to allow personalisation features such as email alerts and saved searches). Click on 'Apply' to confirm any changes you wish to make. When users or administrators make changes to user details or create a new profile, an email notifies the Local Administrator of the changes that have been made.
   5. The User list and Create new user links take the Local Administrator to this functionality.
   6. Click on 'Apply' to confirm any changes you wish to make.
3. Edit IP ranges
   1. To define a new range:
      1. In the 'New range' area, define the range by entering start and end values. (If you have a single IP address use this for both the start and end values.)
      2. Click the Add button. A confirmation message appears in red.
   2. To change a range:
      1. In the 'Existing ranges' area, change the numbers in the appropriate boxes.
      2. Click the appropriate Apply button. A confirmation message appears in red.
   3. To delete a range:
      1. In the 'Existing Ranges' area, click the appropriate Delete button. A confirmation message appears in red.
4. Full text linking:
1. The controls in this submenu enable you to customise the full-text and other linking buttons that are shown at the end of each record. The links are presented in three main categories:
1. Full text  Check or uncheck the appropriate boxes and click the 'Apply' button to confirm your choices.  
1. Publisher full-text links go to the journal publisher's web site using a DOI link; access to the article will usually require a subscription or one-off payment (for more information, see here). It is possible to choose separately whether or not  links to paid-for content or to free content are shown.
2. Patent full-text links are to the document's records held at the European Patent Office esp@cenet web site; there is currently no charge for access
3. The document delivery link connects the user with this IFIS service powered by the British Library
4. The library request link provides a form for the user to complete which can be emailed to the Local Administrator - more on this here.
5. [Prepay customers only] Check the 'Allow use of prepay units to pay for full text?' box if you are happy for individual users to order and pay for full-text documents from the IFIS full-text document delivery service.
2. OpenURL The controls here enable you to display a link to your OpenURL-based library system, specify the URL to use, and to change the button image that is shown to users. Check or uncheck the box, specify the URL, and click on 'Apply' to confirm any changes you wish to make.
3. Web searches - the functionality is described in more detail here. The controls allow you to specify which search engines are available to users. Check or uncheck the appropriate boxes, edit the names of the services and their URLs, and click on 'Apply' to confirm any changes you wish to make.
5. Organisation settings:
   1. This submenu allows the Local Administrator to customise FSTADirect to show and link to your organisation's logo and online Help resources.
   2. There are three Help links that can be specified. The first link is displayed on all screens in the light blue menu to the left of the Dictionary link (see screen fragment at 1, below). The specified URL should be complete, i.e. include the 'http://' prefix.
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      2.  All three links will be shown on the Home page, underneath the heading 'Help and information from your library', located under the log in panel (see screen fragment at 3, below). The specified URLs should be complete, i.e. include the 'http://' prefixes.
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      4. Click on 'Apply' to confirm any changes you wish to make.
   3. It also possible to upload and display a logo for your organisation. The graphic file used should not exceed 150 x 60 pixels in JPG or GIF format.This is displayed on all screens in the top right of the screen.
      1. Click on the Browse button to locate and select a file on your PC and then click Apply.
      2. Check or uncheck the 'Show logo' box to enable or disable the display of the logo on users' screens, and click Apply to confirm your choice..

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