MadCat Help: Links and Buttons

Links and Buttons

For best results, use the following links and buttons within MadCat. Avoid your browser's Back button, as results can be unpredictable.

Links
New Search	Reloads the Search page and allows you to begin a new search
Return to Headings	Displays the headings from your most recent search
Return to Titles	Displays the titles from your most recent search
Search History	Displays a record of searches and allows you to reexecute or edit a previous search
UW System Search	Allows you to search other UW System library catalogs simultaneously
New in MadCat	Allows you to view recently added items
Login / Logout	Allows you to access `My MadCat Account` or place requests for books and other items
My MadCat Account	Accesses your patron information, including the list of items you have checked out
Place Requests	Allows you to request items that are available, checked out, or renewed (A short video tutorial on `Place Requests` is available here. )
Help	Displays information about how to search efficiently, place requests, interpret records, and more
Exit	Ends your MadCat session

Buttons
	Displays the previous page (if the button is "grayed out" there are no previous pages to view)
	Displays the next page (if this button is "grayed out" there are no next pages to view)
	Enables you to narrow your searches by restricting them to certain years, languages, formats or locations within MadCat
	Deactivates any limits set earlier in your MadCat session
	Lists the see references, see also references, broader terms and narrower terms related to the heading you selected from a headings list
	Links to related information about a title
	Subject headings, tables of contents, notes and summaries appear for items when available (in addition to the information that appears in a brief record)
	Displays item information in MARC coded format (primarily for library staff)
	Prepares the record for export to a citation manager, such as RefWorks