Global Library

The Global Library is the repository for all the required objects for creating and maintaining your organization's data collection, validation, and extract operations. You can create some of these objects in the Global Library. Others, you can create, test, and validate at the study level, then elevate to the Global Library. Once in the Global Library, they are available for use in other studies and at other locations.

Only people with certain database roles can access the Global Library screens, thereby retaining the integrity of the objects. For instance, by default, only RXC_SUPER and RXC_GL_FULL users have access to the Maintain Questions form (from the Glib menu, select Questions). (Oracle Clinical provides many roles, and your company can modify them or add new ones.)

Few of the tasks in the Global Library fit into simple linear sequences where you start with one task and progress straight to the end. Most of the tasks are iterative; many require cooperation with other users carrying out such system tasks as designing data collection; and all have a management component, such as determining Question status or managing reference codelists.