Persistent Links to Articles
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ACM Digital Library  ||  EBSCOhost  ||  IEEE CS Digital Library  ||  InfoTrac  ||  ProQuest

General Instructions

You can place links to full-text articles found in some of the Library's restricted databases into course materials and the course management system -- for example, in reading lists or assignments.

Important Procedures.

• Use the "permanent" URL for the article.  The url in the browser Address bar often will *not* link back to the article, so test all URLs you expect to use.  The database-specific instructions below will indicate where to find the permanent URL.
• To make the article accessible from off-campus, you will usually have to add a special URL in front of the permanent URL. This will allow students to login with a Library ID and password when they are off-campus. Without this change, students connecting from off-campus will get an error screen or a login screen from the database itself (and students do not have logins/passwords that will work on those screens). The database-specific instructions below will provide the special url and show where to place it.
• Test the links you will be placing in course materials from both on-campus and off-campus to make sure they are working. 
• Test URLs again at the beginning of new semesters.
• Links are usually persistent, but NOT necessarily permanent. So keep a record of the articles that you use (complete citations) so that you can find the article again if the URL stops working. When using a link, include the article citation. With a complete citation, students will be able to find the article themselves by using the Library's Journal Finder (link to it on the library home page) --even if the link to the article expires.

Instructions are provided below for EBSCOhost, InfoTrac and ProQuest articles. For information services that do not allow persistent links, the database name should be included in the citation so that the article may be found.

ACM Digital Library

The persistent link for an item in ACM Digital Library is called a "DOI (Digital Object Identifer) Bookmark."

• On the search results screen, click on the title of an article to display the article citation and description. 

• The article's persistent link can be found on the line labeled "DOI Bookmark."

• To create a link that will work off-campus, place the the library's proxy url  

  http://www.ezproxy.dsu.edu:2048/login?url=

       directly in front of the DOI Bookmark URL

• For example, in the item below, the DOI Bookmark or persistent link is: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/941350.941373

• To create the url for use in your course materials, add the proxy url to the front and create the following URL to use:

       http://www.ezproxy.dsu.edu:2048/login?url=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/941350.941373

The figure below shows the location of this article's DOI Bookmark link.

EBSCOhost Instructions

for databases Academic Search Premier, Business Search Premier, and other databases provided by EBSCOhost

The persistent link for an item is an EBSCOhost database is referred to as  the “Persistent link to this record (Permalink).”

• On the search results screen, click on the title of an article to display the article citation and description.  NOTE: If you select an article’s HTML Full-Text or PDF version instead of the Title, you will need to select the Citation icon to find persistent link.

• The article's persistent link can be found on the line labeled “Persistent link to this record (Permalink).”

• To create a link that will work off-campus, place the the library's proxy url  

  http://www.ezproxy.dsu.edu:2048/login?url=

       directly in front of the Permalink URL

• For example, in the item below, the Permalink or persistent link is: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=10605039&db=aph

• To create the url for use in your course materials, add the proxy url to the front and create the following URL to use:

http://www.ezproxy.dsu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=10605039&db=aph

The figure below shows the location of this article's persistent link.

IEEE CS Digital Library Instructions

The persistent link for an item in IEEE CS Digital Library is called a "DOI (Digital Object Identifer) Bookmark."

• On the search results screen, click on the Abstract icon of an article to display the article citation and description. 

• The article's persistent link can be found on the line labeled "DOI Bookmark."

• To create a link that will work off-campus, place the the library's proxy url  

  http://www.ezproxy.dsu.edu:2048/login?url=

       directly in front of the DOI Bookmark URL

• For example, in the item below, the DOI Bookmark or persistent link is: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SERVICES-1.2008.72

• To create the url for use in your course materials, add the proxy url to the front and create the following URL to use: