Linking to Online Resources

Special Information for Faculty - Linking to Articles

For more information about linking to library resources, contact Carol Wittig, (289-8459) Head of Instruction and Information Services.

From On Campus

Course Reserve Reading

 You may link directly to electronic course reserve readings through your BlackBoard course by simply inserting each reserve item's link to the document in the Library catalog. To link directly follow these steps:

1. Go to the UR Library Catalog.
2. Select the Course Reserves Tab.
3. Search by either your name or course.
4. Identify the reading you want to link to.
5. Open the reading (this requires you to login the catalog).
6. After opening the file, you can use the link in the address bar for linking purposes.

You can also provide your students with directions on how to access course reserves through the library catalog (See steps 1 - 5 above)

Online Databases

 Go to the "Online Databases" list on the library's web site.  "Right click" on the database name that you would like to link. Choose "copy shortcuts" and then paste into Blackboard or another web page. 
 

JSTOR

 Locate the appropriate article and click the Article Information link. Copy and paste the stable URL. Or use Citation Linking Tool at: http://makealink.jstor.org/linking.individual.html.
Cut and paste article URL.
 

EBSCO (Academic Search Complete, ATLA Religion Database, Biological Abstracts, Business Source Complete, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Education Research Complete, Environment Complete, ERIC, PsycINFO, Medline)

 To link to a specific set of search results, conduct the search, then click on Save Searches/Alerts under Search History.  You must be logged in to MyEBSCOhost.

To link to an article, open the full record of the article and scroll down to the bottom. Copy and paste the URL labeled Persistent link to this record (Permalink).

Project Muse

 URLs are permanent. Cut and paste article URL.
 

RefWorks

 Instructors can provide links to existing RefWorks accounts in any of the course Content areas (Course Information, Course Documents, Assignments, External Links, etc.).  Each content area can link to an entirely different RefWorks account.

1. Navigate to the specific course's Control Panel.

2. Select the content area you would like the RefWorks account linked from.

3. Select Link to RefWorks database from the drop-down box on the upper right portion of the screen and press the Go button.

4. On the Link to RefWorks Database page, enter RefWorks account information for the account you wish to link to. Students can have either full access or read-only access. To establish read-only access, the instructor must create a read-only password in the

Update User Information area of RefWorks.

5. Enter a Title and Link text for display in the course's content area.

NetLibrary

 The link format for NetLibrary is:

http://www.netlibrary.com/summary.asp?id=

You will need to add the specific book number after the equal (=) sign to complete the link.

To find the specific book number, search NetLibrary. Once you have found the title you wish to link to, click on "SHOW DETAILS" , then look over to the right and click on "FULL METADATA" and you will see the PRODUCT ID number.  Use the number to add after the = sign and your direct link to the book will be complete.

Example:  http://www.netlibrary.com/summary.asp?id=42205
This is the direct link for the book, Confronting Iraq.

Lexis-Nexis

 Due to the enormous amount of information in Lexis-Nexis, permanent links to articles are not available at this time.
 
*This is our current list of online databases with permanent URL links to articles. Other databases will be added as they make permanent URLs available for linking articles.

From Off-Campus

Follow the steps for each database as outlined above. However, you must insert the following prefix in front of the URL--if it is not already there--to allow it to pass through the proxy server:

http://newman.richmond.edu:2048/login?url=

For example:
http://newman.richmond.edu:2048/login?url=http://web4.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/886/

BlackBoard

Download handout with suggestions for integrating library resources and services into course pages. (PDF)