Frequently Asked Questions

The Article Search facility (see top right corner of the screen) will individually compare every entered word of the search phrase with the article’s title and author (so ignoring all numeric information such as years and page numbers). Note that the order of the words in the search phrase, whether whole or partial words are entered, is not significant.

The Advanced Search menu option (on the left of the screen) takes you to a page where you can significantly refine your search criteria by entering a Year of Publication, a Category, whether to selectively search in Journals or Sentinels, the Author’s last name, Cover theme title search (Yes or No) and check for whole title words only. Please note the following;

•	If you enter in a non numeric or invalid year, then you will find you have no matching records when you click the “Find” button.
•	You can enter partial words at either the ‘Title’ or ‘Author’ text prompts. The order that these (partial) words are entered must be the same as the order found in the result list. For example, the entry of ‘Bloggs Joe’ in the Author’s prompt will not find those articles authored by ‘Joe Bloggs’.
•	You can match across multiple categories by holding down the <Ctrl> key on your keyboard when you make your selections from the Categories list.

When looking for articles by specific individuals, whether via Search or Advanced Search, you need to recheck the accuracy of your search criteria.

Spaces and the case (upper or lower) of the searched for phrase are not significant to the matching of articles, and each word of the search phrase is matched independently of all other words. For example, entering in “oodi il” will not only identify all articles that reference Jill Gooding (whether as author or as interviewed by), it will also include an article by Edith Bailey as the name matches ‘il’ and the title matches ‘oodi’ (because of the word ‘Brooding’).

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The amount of material involved is far too vast to either scan or précis, and the content of all articles are copyrighted by CSPS. All that this site provides is a facility for identifying the relevant bound volume and page number by matching the articles title, author and/or category against your designated search criteria.

Where it is possible to identify a periodical’s publication date by the volume and issue numbers then these details are available to view simply by clicking on the box next to the year published. Note that this date is only displayed to registered users.

Not everyone has such big screens (some are still 800 x 600), so the default size is set for these users. To view the results in a bigger format (1200 width screens or larger) click on the resize button (An up arrow with ^_SIZE underneath it). This will refresh the page with larger fonts appropriate to this screen size. Clicking this button again (now showing a down arrow to indicate a reduction in size will occur when clicked) will return you to the 800 width screen format).

Note that I have added a print preview option that displays the article query results in a larger font (click on the printer icon) and removes all the menu details to make it suitable for printing.

If you click on the Registration Info link on the page footer you will see costs specified in pounds (£) sterling. To the right of these figures there is a currency icon that, when clicked, will display the equivalent cost in a range of other currencies (prices are purely a guide, based on recent exchange rates).

You are either logged in as a demo user, or your yearly registration has expired. In either instance you will need to pay the current registration fee to be able to view all the article details.

Please note that the demo login is provided as a suitability check prior to registration, enabling you to try out the full functionality of the site without financial commitment. As it says in the top right of the screen “Demo user - limited data viewing”.

The number of articles that can be displayed per page is displayed in the Show box. This number can be changed to suit your screen or printer size simply by entering the new number and hitting the enter key. Note that entering a number below 10 will reset it back to the default (25), and anything in excess of 100 will reset to 100.

All the results can be sorted by any one column simply by clicking on the title name of that column. If the sort order is in ascending order, then clicking on it again will display the articles in descending order.

It has only been fairly recently (late 1990’s) that the periodicals started including testimony titles - prior to this they had no identifying caption to indicate their content. These non-captioned testimonies have therefore been specifically excluded because

• This site relies solely on an article’s title to identify its focus
• it was felt one shouldn’t try to interpret or summarise their content.
• the name of the testifier is not what testimonies are about.

The numbers in parenthesis are the number of articles that can be accurately placed in the category/series etc since the very first publication. Note that these days articles are readily identifiable (teen talk, etc), whereas in the past this hasn’t been the case. It’s only where they are specifically identifiable by title or author (historically) or have identifying captions/labels (1990’s onwards) that they have been categorised. Note that, due to the volume of articles that have been published, automation of titles via scanning has been the focus, not the visual viewing of individual content to identify their categorisation.

PayPal is recognised all over the world (190 countries) as a secure payment system for the internet, and they currently support payments in 16 currencies.

•	Small businesses predominately use them to provide the needed financial security with minimal cost - PayPal charges a small percentage per transaction, and this fee is borne in full by CSAF.
•	The majority of eBay and Amazon users almost certainly have personal PayPal accounts for handling all their own online transactions.
•	All foreign currency or credit card payments are automatically converted to your local currency at the time of the online purchase using the then current rate of exchange - it’s just like using one’s credit card when travelling abroad, and that’s how it will appear on your statement (the original foreign currency amount is usually shown too).
•	If you have further queries about PayPal I suggest you have a browse around the PayPal website (see www.paypal.com), and perhaps Google ‘PayPal’ for relevant commentary and reviews. If you know anyone who uses eBay then ask them their views about PayPal payment security.

Due to the level of bank fees charged on foreign currency cheques in the UK it is not viable to accept payment in any other currency. Arrangements have been made, though, to accept local currency cheques if you live in Australia, and details are displayed on the Payment Details page (link is on the page footer).

Residency in any other country will therefore require you to do one of the following;

•	Ask a friend or colleague who has a Paypal account (if they use eBay then they are more than likely to already have one) to pay on your behalf.
•	Use this websites online credit card payment facility (hosted by secure PayPal servers). Click here to view this page (main access is via the Payment Details page).

Against every article that is listed there appears a button that allows you to view further information about the current article. That information includes an “Article Key” value, which uniquely identifies the article within the site’s database. Take a note of this number - you can enter it on the feedback form with details of the error (spelling mistake, wrong classification, etc) so the specific article concerned can be very easily identified and corrected.

The primary licence restriction that applies to all CSAF logins (whether purchased singly or as part of a bundle) is that they may only be used on one computer at any one time. An individual or organisation that purchases a bundle may therefore assign unused logins to specified family, friends or church associates. As an example, a Church may purchase a four-pack bundle for their Reading Room and clerk’s computers, and then allocate the remaining logins to two other specified individuals associated with the church for their off site use.

Notes

•	The purchaser is responsible for enforcing the licencing terms on their individual and collective use.
•	As a bundle is renewable as a single entity, all communication on licence renewals and password management will only be via the original registrants details.

When you register for a four-user bundle the four login names can be individually specified in the four login name prompt boxes (ie RR-study, RR-sales, church-SS and church-Clerk) on the registration form. If you only enter a single name then sequential suffixes will be automatically assigned (ie CSRR-1, CSRR-2 CSRR-3 and CSRR-4) unless appropriate details are specified in the comments box.

Other considerations

•	If felt to be more memorable, you could have four seperate passwords (such as RRstudy, RRsales, SS and Clerk) that are either location or computer specific - please use the registration Comments box to specify your requirements.
•	If one or more of your login name preferences is unavailable, then you will be notified by email and asked for an alternative selection. Note that if these names are chosen with a church specific prefix then this possibility is most unlikely to occur.