Log in with your Library account
These resources are only available to members of the Highline Campus Community - you must log in to use them!
You can log in using your Last Name and your Highline Identification number (the number under your name on your Highline ID card).
- Student accounts to access this resource are free when you register for classes. The accounts are created from your Registration information and expire at the end of each quarter.
- Members of the community at large may register with the Library as a Public Borrower to have limited access to Library Databases. Inquire at the Circulation counter on the Plaza floor of the Library for more information.
Please contact Circulation Services at 206-878-3710 extension 3234 or email them at libcirc@highline.edu for assistance with your Library account. They will help verify that you Library account is accurate and up-to-date.
Log in with your Computer Lab account
These resources are only available to members of the Highline Campus Community - you must log in to use them!
You log in using the same account information that you use for Instructional Computing (IC) resources, which include: IC lab computers and web sites on http://flightline.highline.edu.
- Student accounts must be activated each quarter at the IC Account Activation page.
- Please see PASSWORDS, PASSWORDS, PASSWORDS! for additional information, and assistance with this login.
Enabling Cookies
What resources require cookies?
Most licensed resources require cookies to be enabled. If you have cookies disabled, this will cause problems with these resources. Resources that are known to require cookies are…
- Any ProQuest database, including ProQuest Research Library and ABI/Inform
- Any EBSCO database, including Academic Search
- Any Gale database
- and many more…
What are cookies?
- Web browsers use cookies
- They communicate your preferences to a web server
- They pass small bits of information back and forth to help establish a session between your web browser and their web server
- This session information is stored on your hard drive in a file called cookies.txt
Cookies information is used to set up connection information about your search session. The alternative to cookies stored on your computer would be storing this information on the database computers, where you would have no control over what it might be used for or how long it is kept.
For more information about cookies, see the Unofficial Cookies FAQ, available at http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/
Note: As cookies are just a text file there is no known instance of the cookies.txt file being used to transmit a computer virus.
If you have privacy concerns about the use of cookies, turn them on before using licensed resources and then turn them off again when finished. You can also locate the cookies.txt file on your hard drive and delete it when finished.
How do you clear your cookie file?
To clear your brower's cookie file (see http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/#2.2 on the effects of deleting your cookie file):
- Internet Explorer
- Start Internet Explorer.
- On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, and then click on the General tab.
- In the Temporary Internet Files section, click Delete Cookies, click OK, and then click OK again.
- Netscape 4.7x
- Close Netscape first.
- Navigate to the Netscape directory that contains your settings, bookmarks, etc. The location of this will vary, but you should find it if you search on cookies.txt .
- Delete cookies.txt .
- Netscape 6.x
- Start Netscape.
- On the Edit menu, click Preferences, and then click the Cookies section underneath Privacy & Security .
- Click on View Stored Cookies .
- Click on Remove All Cookies .
- Firefox 1.5x
- Start Firefox.
- Choose Tools on the toolbar, then Options... on the drop down menu.
- On the Options pop-up window, click on the Privacy icon.
- Click on the Cookies tab.
- Click the Clear Cookies button.
Security Settings
One area where problems can occur is in the security settings on your home computer. The security settings can be set in a manner that prevents the database vendor from "trusting" the home computer enough to allow access to their database. Also, your settings may block the ability for the database website to save cookies on your computer, or to install software that is needed in order for the database to work properly.
Here is a list of some of the places that home computer security settings are made:
- Personal Firewall software (like Norton Personal Firewall)
- Window XP, Service Pack 2 (it is set to block Referring URLs by default)
- Browser security settings (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Safari, etc.)
Firewall Issues
A Firewall is often used on a computer or by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to help keep your computer secure.Firewalls restrict access to the ports on your computer which are used to exchange data between computers on the Internet. Unfortunately, firewalls can also restrict your ability to connect to sites on the Internet that you would like to use.
If you are unable to log in using your Highline account, then your firewall may be blocking the ports that are used to communicate with the sites that we are providing for your research.
Our security system uses ports 2048 through 2248. These ports need to open on both the firewall that you have on your computer and on the firewall that your Internet Service Provider uses.
Please open ports 2048 through 2248 on your firewall and request that the technical support staff at your ISP make sure that these ports are open for you.