Although knowing how to search in IUCAT is certainly the most important task to master, there are a few other features of IUCAT to be aware of. This page highlights those features. Read on to learn about My Account in IUCAT, what to do with Selected Items, how to view your Search History, and when to use the Ask a Librarian feature.
To access My Account in IUCAT, you will be prompted to enter your IU username and passphrase. My Account shows you:
IUCAT provides you a limited search history - limited to each active IUCAT session. This will show you the searches you have performed during that session, with the ability to access those search results anew. Searches will be shown in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
If you have applied filters post-search, you will see these each as separate searches.
You also have the ability to clear your search history.
When you run a search in IUCAT, next to each search result, you will see a checkbox. Checking a box makes it a Selected Item. (Selected items can be helpful if you'd like to create a list of relevant titles on a subject, for example.) You can access your list of selected items from the top of the page in IUCAT. From your list of selected items, you can select or deselect all or individual titles. You can then:
When in IUCAT, you'll notice a link at the top of the page called Ask A Librarian. Clicking this gives you three options: