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Linking to ISS Resources
You may wish to provide links to particular journal articles available electronically within your Blackboard module or web pages. However, you need to be aware that links at article level are not always stable - search results can contain session information which will quickly expire. Individual journal publishers have differing policies on the stability of their links - a summary of the policies of suppliers who are known to provide stable links is below. If in doubt, it may be best to link to a particular journal title and allow students to navigate their own way to the relevant article.
Links to journal titles in iFind Discover, the library catalogue use the most stable urls available, so use this library catalogue if you want to provide links to resources. If you place your cursor over the hyperlink within the catalogue, you can see the url in the grey status bar at the bottom of your screen - this may not be the same as the url which appears in the address box of your browser once you actually connect to a title.
Off-campus users: Note that students using electronic journals off campus may have to use a password, or in some cases may not have access. Please check the journal in iFind Discover, the library catalogue. The link to the resource will say 'on campus only' if there is no off campus access.
Academic Library | ACM Digital Library | BioMed Central | Cambridge Journals Online | EBSCO | Emerald Fulltext | IEEE Xplore | Ingenta Connect |Institute of Physics | JSTOR | Literature Online (LION) | Ovid PsycArticles | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Oxford English Dictionary | Oxford Journals | Royal Society of Chemistry | Sage Journals | Science Direct | Springer Link | | Taylor & Francis | Times Digital Archive | Wiley InterScience
Linking to an Academic Library ebook:
- Search in the library catalogue for the Academic Library ebook.
- Within the ebook record right click on "Available from the Academic Library" or "Full text available", choose "Copy Shortcut" and paste your link.
Linking to an article:
ACM Digital Library does allow linking at article level in most cases. To obtain a stable url:
- Locate the article you are interested in and go to the full citation.
- Underneath the bibliographic details you will find a DOI.
- Add the DOI to the end of http://dx.doi.org/ to create your link. (A DOI is not available in all cases).
Linking to a journal title:
Look the journal title up in the library catalogue. Right click the internet link and choose Copy shortcut. Note that the url which appears in your browser address bar when you go into a journal via ACM is not stable so should not be used to create links.
Please note that the user will only be able to access ACM journals from a Swansea IP address.
Note that students will have to register for BioMed Central before they are able to view articles. Registration is free and involves filling in an online form.
Linking to an article:
BioMed Central does allow linking at article level. To obtain a stable url:
- Locate the article you are interested in and go to the full text (the html version not the pdf).
- Underneath the bibliographic details you will "The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at:" followed by the appropriate url to use for linking directly to the article. This is not available in every case.
Linking to a journal title:
Use the url which appears in the address bar when you are looking at the title page of a journal.
Linking to an article:To obtain a stable url:
- Near the top of the screen you will find a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). For instance, the DOI of a recent article in Journal of Economic History is 10.1017/S0022050705050084.
- Copy the part of the DOI which begins with the letter S following the forward slash and add it to the url http://dx.doi.org/ to construct a stable link. You end up with a link like this: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050705050084
Linking to a Journal:
To create a link to a particular journal
- find the journal id by going to the Browse journals options - "Browse by title" or "Browse by subject" pages. Point your mouse at the journal title. In the status bar at the bottom of the page you will see a url that ends jid-XYZ, where XYZ is the journal code.
- Add this three letter code to the url http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_ to create a stable url.
Linking to images of a text:
Click on the blue "Durable URL" button at the top right of the document image page. A window containing the durable URL will open. Copy this url to create a stable link to the image. There is a separate url for each image. When creating a link to a book it will generally be appropriate to link to the first image. Students will be able to view successive images by clicking on Next Image.
Linking to an article: EBSCO does show a "persistent link" to a particular article so that it can be revisited. To see this open the full citation for the article. In the tools at the right of the screen you will see the option Permalink. Clicking this will bring up a url you can use to link to the article.
Linking to a journal title:
- Click on the Publications link in the blue bar at the top of the EBSCO search screen.
- Locate the title you are interested in and click on the hyperlink. This will take you to a screen of information about the journal which will usually include a "Link to this publication" with a stable url.. You can copy and paste this into your Blackboard module to create a stable link.
Linking to a search:
If you want students to see all the results of a particular search, you can create a link which will duplicate that search for them:
- Carry out your search.
- Above the results you will see a link saying Alert, Save, Share.
- Click this link to see a permalink which you can use to reproduce the search. (If a database is updated students may see slightly different results from when you ran the search).
If a user is working off campus they will be taken to a password screen before they can enter the article or journal title.
Linking to an article:
- Carry out your search then display the full details of the article you are interested in by clicking the hyperlink.
- In most cases a DOI will be shown under the year and volume details.
- Add this to the address http://dx.doi.org/ to obtain a stable link for the article, for example, if the article says DOI: 10.1108/10748120410540454, your url will be http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120410540454
Alternatively, you can create a stable url using the formula:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/cgi-bin/cgi?body=linker&reqidx=issn-number(year)L.page
Use this text but replace issn-number with the issn of the journal (see below), year with the actual year of publication and page with the number of the first page of the article.
Linking to a journal title:
- Emerald uses a formula to create a stable journal url: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/issn-number.htm.
- Look up the title you require in the Browse by Journal title A-Z list and note its ISSN number.
- Replace issn-number in the above link with the actual ISSN. For example, Management Decision has the ISSN 0025-1747 so the url would be http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0025-1747.htm
Alternatively, you can look the journal up in the library catalogue then right click on the Emerald link. Choose copy shortcut from the menu which appears. This will copy the url into the windows clipboard ready to paste into your work.
IEEE Xplore
Linking to an article:
Carry out your search. On the search results page look under the citation for a Digital Object Identifier. Copy this then add it to the url http://dx.doi.org/ to obtain a stable url for the article. For example, if the digital object identifier is 10.1109/NEBC.1993.404440 your stable url would be: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.1993.404440.
Linking to a journal title:
A list of stable urls for IEEE titles is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/opacjrn.jsp. Use the link under OPAC link.
Click on each title to see urls for particular issues.
Please note that the user will only be able to access IEEE journals from a Swansea IP address.
Ingenta Connect
Linking to a journal article:
Look for a DOI when you go into the full citation for an article. If this is present add it to the base url http://dx.doi.org/ to provide a stable link.
If there is no DOI the recommended base URL for linking to a journal article on Ingenta is: http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article....
You then need to specify the article required by adding metadata elements to the URL. Ingenta recommends including the following elements as a minimum to obtain best results:
ISSN (&issn=)
Volume (&volume=)
Issue (&issue=)
Start page of article (&spage=)
End page of article (&epage=)
For example: http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=1368-9800&volume=7&issue=4&spage=473&epage=474
Linking to a journal:
The simplest syntax to use for linking to a journal homepage on Ingenta is:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/<issn>
where <issn> is replaced the journal's paper or electronic ISSN. The ISSN can be seen when you display a journal home page in Ingenta or a list can be downloaded from: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/about/librarians/linking_to_ingentaconnect.
Linking to an article:
- Look for the DOI which is shown beneath the article title. (If the article does not have an abstract you can find the DOI in the full text pdf at the top right of the first page).
- Add this to the address http://dx.doi.org/ to obtain a stable link for the article.
for example, if the article says doi:10.1088/0957-4484/16/6/007 your url will be http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/16/6/007
Linking to a journal title:
- A stable url should appear in your browser address bar when you view the journal home page, e.g., http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-4484/
- Alternatively, you can look the journal up in the library catalogue then right click on the Institute of Physics link (shown as Full text available in the catalogue record). Choose copy shortcut from the menu which appears. This will copy the url into the windows clipboard ready to paste into your work.
Linking to an article:
JSTOR provides a stable link for each individual article. Click the article title to find it. It will look something like http://www.jstor.org/stable/3774088
Linking to a journal title:
JSTOR provides a stable journal url in the browser address bar when you display a journal title from the Browse list. It is also possible to link to a particular issue of a journal - you will find a stable url at the top of the screen when you display the issue.
It is possible to create a direct link to individual literary texts and author pages.
Click on Durable URL. A window containing a URL will open. Copy this url to create a stable link.
Ovid PsycArticles
Navigate to the full text of the article (Ovid fulltext rather than the PDF) and click on Email a jumpstart . You can copy and paste the link which appears or put in your e-mail address to have it sent to you.
Alternatively you may see a DOI as part of the reference. You can add this to http://dx.doi.org/ to obtain a stable link.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Linking to an entry:
Each entry has a DOI which can be found at the end of every article, after the references. Add this DOI to the base url http://dx.doi.org/ . For example, the DOI for the article on Winston Churchill is 10.1093/ref:odnb/32413. The first two parts refer to the Dictionary and 32413 to the article on Churchill. The url for this article would therefore be http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/32413.
Linking to an entry:
Display the entry which you want to link to. Copy the url which appears in your browser address bar to provide a stable link.
Oxford Journals
Linking to an article:
View the abstract of the article you wish to link to. In the "This article section" you may see a doi. If this is present you can create a stable link to the article by adding the doi to http://dx.doi.org/ . Unfortunately it is not there in every case. If there is no doi you will need to link to the journal rather than the individual article.
Linking to a journal title:
A spreadsheet of urls for Oxford journals can be found at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/help/linking.html
Linking to an article:
- Display the full text of the article you wish to link to (in html format, not PDF).
- Copy the DOI which appears under the citation at the top of the article.
- Add this to the address http://dx.doi.org/ to obtain a stable link for the article.
for example, if the article says DOI: 10.1039/b301780j, your url will be http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b301780j
Linking to a journal title:
A list of urls for RSC journals can be found at http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/librarians/URLlisting.asp.
Please note that the user will only be able to access RSC journals from a Swansea IP address. In some cases older issues of journals may be available off campus via Swetswise but no stable url will be available. Access details for each title can be found in our library catalogue.
Sage Journals online
Linking to an article:
- Display the abstract of the article you wish to link to.
- In the "This article" information at the right of the screen you will find a DOI. Add this to the url http://dx.doi.org/ to create a stable link.
Linking to a journal title:
- Display the home page of the journal and copy and paste the url from your browser address bar which will be a stable url.
- Alternatively, you can look the journal up in the library catalogue then right click on the full text link (next to Online access in the catalogue record). Choose copy shortcut from the menu which appears. This will copy the url into the windows clipboard ready to paste into your work.
Linking to an article:
- Display the full text of the article you want to link to by clicking the hyperlink.
- Copy the DOI which appears below the article title to the left of the screen.
- Add this to the address http://dx.doi.org/ to obtain a stable link for the article.
for example, if the article says doi:10.1016/j.cccn.2004.09.018, your url will be http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cccn.2004.09.018
Linking to a journal title:
Locate your journal in the Browse section of Science Direct. Click on the journal title then you will see "shortcut link to this title" which you can use as a stable url to link to the journal.
Linking to an article:
Under the title of the article you should see a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). Copy this and add it to the base url http://dx.doi.org/ to obtain a stable url. For example, if the DOI is 10.1007/BF02342433, your url will be http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02342433
Linking to a journal title:
- Look the journal up in the library catalogue. Right click on the link to the journal and select Copy Shortcut. The url captured in this way will be stable and can be pasted into your work.
Linking to an article:
- Search the library catalogue for the journal and click on Full Text Available. You will see the Informaworld web page for the publication. (Alternatively you can search the Informaworld site directly).
- In the listing of volumes and issues select the issue containing the article you wish to link to.
- Click the abstract for the article you want - underneath the article title you will find a DOI. Add this to the url http://dx.doi.org/ to create a stable url.
Linking to a journal title:
you display a journal title in Informaworld you will see a Link icon at the top of the screen. Click this to show a stable url for the journal title.
Times Digital Archive
It is possible to create a stable link to any page in which the Infomark symbol (a blue circle with a yellow i inside) appears at the top. You can find out more about linking to the Times Digital Archive by clicking on this Infomark symbol.
Linking to articles:
To link to a single article you can display the article by clicking on Article and then copy the url at the top of the page to create a stable link.
You can also perform a search, mark those citations which you want to link to, click on View mark list and copy the url of the Mark List page to create a stable link to the page. This link provides a shortcut back to the citations and from them to the full text of the articles.
Wiley Interscience
Linking to an article:
Carry out your search and view the abstract of the article you want to link to.
- Look for a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and copy it. You will see this under the abstract.
- To create a stable url add what you have copied to http://dx.doi.org/. For example, if the record says DOI: 10.1002/cne.20387, your url would be http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cne.20387
Linking to a journal title:
You can find a stable url for Wiley Interscience titles by looking the title up in the library catalogue. Put your cursor over the link to see the url in the grey status bar at the bottom of your screen. To copy it, right click the link in the catalogue and select Copy shortcut.
This will not be the same as the url which appears in the address bar of your browser when you actually connect to the title - this will be generated by a database and may change.
Alternatively, you can download a list of all Wiley journals with their DOIs urls in Excel spreadsheet format from the Services for Librarians section of the web site. The Journal titles, Changes and collections file contains DOIs.
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