Hello and welcome to this video tutorial on how to search IndexCat,
apply specific features to your search, and export records.
For this demonstration, let’s first perform a keyword search.
Enter the word 'nursing'.
The database will ‘stem’ your search words.
Stemming removes suffixes such as '-ing', '-ed', '-en', and '-s'.
The search results are shown in bold and contain nurse, nursing, and nurses.
Along with searching the Index-Catalogue,
IndexCat simultaneously retrieves search results from
eTKeVK2, LocatorPlus, PubMed, and PubMed Central.
Now let’s try another search.
I entered heart attack capitalized NOT defects.
Results are returned containing heart attack but not the word defects.
The search can also be entered as heart attack dash – defects which return the same results.
It is important to note that the word AND is not required when searching IndexCat.
IndexCat automatically combines terms with the word AND by default.
To export a record, check the box next to those records you wish to export.
Then, select Actions, Email or Export as HTML, Text, XML.
I will select HTML and a new window will appear containing the two records selected in HTML format.
Congratulations, you have now exported your first IndexCat records.