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Linking Directly to Electronic Resources

Articles from electronic databases can be used in Blackboard coursework, but due to license restrictions, these articles should only be provided as direct links to the material. Instructors who wish to provide articles from the databases as part of their coursework without having to make the student search for the material can use the persistent link (a.k.a. durable URL) or the DOI (digital object identifier) for the article to provide direct access to it. See below for information on how to link.*

If the article does not have a persistent link, you may be able to post the article itself in Blackboard, depending on the license terms and conditions. In this situation, please contact Librsv@ku.edu via email and we will check the license and reply to you within 24 hours.

*Linking is permitted for all licensed content except for the Harvard Business Review. The publisher of the Harvard Business Review forbids linking to articles as well as placing copies of articles in Blackboard. Students must search for these articles on their own.

Locate: Use the Find Article by Citation to locate the article you wish to link and the database in which it exists. Then use the drop-down list below to choose the respective database and identify the article's stable URL or DOI
Combine: Combine the KU proxy prefix with the stable URL or DOI. The proxy prefix allows KU faculty, staff, and students to access licensed e-resources from off-campus (using their KU Online ID). http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?URL=
Paste: Copy and paste the hybrid URL into your documents, e-mail, or course page. The final version will have two "http://"'s, as shown below:
http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?URL=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true....

INDEXES

ACM Digital Library

Find article and go to the full citation.
Underneath the bibliographic details you will find a DOI bookmark.
Use the url given here to create your link. (A DOI bookmark is not available in all cases).
Add the KU proxy prefix. http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url

Cambridge Journals Online

Find the article for which you want to create a link
Verify that the article is in a journal that KU subscribes to -- there will be a "S" in a black box next to the citation.
Find the DOI (digital object identifier) listed below the citation
Copy and paste the DOI into a link, using the root url (dx.doi.org) for the DOI server
Add the KU proxy prefix. http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url=

EBSCO Databases

Click on the "full citation" of the article to which you want to create a link.
Find the "Persistent link to this record" on this page.
Copy and paste the Persistent link
Add the KU proxy prefix. http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url=

Econolit

Find article
Click article title (full text available only if HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text is visible).
Scroll to the bottom of the citation/abstract info to Persistent link to this record.
Copy and paste this URL
Add the KU proxy prefix. http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url=

Expanded Academic

Find article
Click article title.
Click Bookmark this Document.
Copy and paste the URL that appears in the new window
Add the KU proxy prefix http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url

EXAMPLE: http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url=http://find.galegroup.com/itx/...

Gale Infotrac

Conduct search
On the item web page - select "bookmark" (NOT the browser bookmark)
A new window will open up - copy the URL
Add the KU proxy prefix http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url

JSTOR

Select resources, perform search.
From results screen, copy and paste Stable URL into your documents, course page, or Web page.
Add the KU proxy prefix http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url

EXAMPLE: http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Now AvailableLexis-Nexis Academic Link Builder

Project Muse

Open the full-text or pdf article for which you want to create a link.
Copy the URL in the browser's address box
Add the KU proxy prefix http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url

EXAMPLE: http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/journals/american_literary_history/v021/21.2.limon.pdf

ProQuest products

Find article
Click article title.
Stable URL appears under Document URL.
The newer, shorter full text link URL is displayed.
Copy the Full Text Link(s)' URL
Add the KU proxy prefix http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url

EXAMPLE: http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url=http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=

SAGE Full-text Collections

Find Article
Mark article(s) you want to link to
Click on "save/print/email records" button
Click "print preview" button
A new browser window will open with citation. The persistent URL is at the bottom of the display under "Full-Text Link".
Add the KU proxy prefix http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url

Science Direct

Find and select article
MarConstruct the URL using the DOI found just below the title "abstract"
CNote: Some DOIs will work, while others provided by ScienceDirect are not in the correct format and do not work. Refer to examples below of working and non-working URLs.
To create a stable url add what you have copied to http://dx.doi.org/
Add the KU proxy prefix http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url
EXAMPLE OF NON-WORKING DOI-URL: http://dx.doi.org/j.aquabot.2004.05.004

EXAMPLE OF WORKING DOI-URL: http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?URL=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1045-2354(03)00009-1

Wiley InterScience

Find Article
From search results screen, click Abstract under article of interest.
Construct the URL using the DOI, which appears beneath 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
Add the KU proxy prefix http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?url=

EXAMPLE:

http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/login?URL=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cne.20387