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IndexCat Questions
Jump to: General Information | Access | Searching the System | Content | System Profile | Troubleshooting- General Information
- What is IndexCat?
- Do you have an official logo or icon for IndexCat?
Access - How do I connect to IndexCat and is there a charge?
Searching the System - How do I search IndexCat?
- How can I combine terms in searches in IndexCat?
- Why are some subject headings in IndexCat different for the same topic?
- How can I find authors with multiple initials?
- When I search authors, sometimes I see the same name repeated two or three times in Results, View Relationships or Browse lists. What does this mean?
- Why are there two forms of author entries in IndexCat?
- How do I search dates in IndexCat?
- Can I search a range of dates?
- Can I do searches for languages?
- Can I retrieve more than 1000 citations?
- How can I do a sort in IndexCat?
Content
- What are the rules for material indexed in IndexCat?
- What kinds of records will I find in IndexCat?
- In IndexCat - Series 1, why do some records show only dates without authors or titles?
System Profile
- How can I make an interlibrary loan (ILL) request for an item in IndexCat?
- How do I print/save/download records from IndexCat?
- Why do I sometimes get strange characters in my display?
- Is there a list of journal titles for the journal abbreviations in IndexCat?
- What browsers support IndexCat?
- What type of equipment supports IndexCat?
Troubleshooting
- I found a mistake in IndexCat. How do I report it?
- Why and how should I clear the cache on my web browser?
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Last reviewed: 07 May 2009
Last updated: 07 May 2009
First published: 07 March 2005
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