Results
After performing a search on the Search tab, you’ll find a list of records* that comply to that search on the Results tab.
* Each object description in a database is saved in a so-called record. So, a record contains data that belongs together because it describes a single museum object or occasionally a group of objects or specimens catalogued together.
After an Advanced search or Expert search you’ll immediately get to see a list of resulting records displaying a thumbnail image if there is one, the accession number, the object category and the UCL Culture museum or collection the object or specimen belongs to.
Click a record to display more Details of that record.
After a Simple search in more than one database simultaneously, on the Results tab you’ll first get to see a results overview of how many records were found per database, for example ‘hat’:
UCL Art Museum [101 Results]
Jeremy Bentham Auto-Icon [2 Results]
Science Collections [3 Results]
Click the Search command to view the relevant results in a record list. Or click the Refine button to adjust your search for a single database. From the results list you can quickly switch to the results in another database by clicking the name of that database underneath Switch database in the column to the left.
It’s possible to view the results as either a list or gallery (an image grid). The display buttons are located on the left above Switch database.
Browsing through the list
You can navigate through the pages of results pages by clicking the arrows at the left and right of the page numbers, or click on a page number in between those arrows.
Selecting records
In every record in the list, there is an Add to Selection option. Click it to mark the record, and it will be included in your personal selection. You can use this selection later on (via the Selection tab) ) to print out, or to download and send via e-mail.
Click Select all button in the column to the left to select all records at once.
You deselect a record by clicking a marked checkbox again.
Click the Clear selection button in the column to the left, to deselect all marked records.
Click the Invert selection button to select all non-marked records, and to deselect all marked records at the same time.
Printing, downloading or e-mailing the currently displayed list page
The list page can be printed, or downloaded as an HTML page: click on either the printer icon or the download icon in the Actions section on the left.
When you click Download the .html file is saved in your default \Downloads folder. From Windows Explorer you can open this file in a program of your choice: right-click the file and select Open within the pop-up menu to pick the desired software. If you open the file in a browser or in Microsoft Word, it will be displayed much like the web page was presented originally, although in Word you may have to do some editing before it's ready for printing, while if you open the file in a simple text editor you will be presented with the HTML code itself.
Search History
Here you can see a list of all your searches this session, refresh an individual search or refine a search by returning to the Search tab containing your current search command, so that you can adjust it.