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Blackboard Tip

Create Links to Journal Articles

Introduction
Create your own links to online journal articles using this procedure or email Judy Brophy (brophy@dwc.edu) or Linda Heron (heron@dwc.edu) to have them created for you.

Directions
1. Determine if the journal you want is one of the 15,539 full text journals or newspapers in one of our databases.

  • Access Baddour Library’s Database page at http://frontier.dwc.edu/screens/artdat4.html

  • Click the link List of Journals with online full text.

  • Type the name of the journal in the box after “Search for a Journal Title”.

  • The entry will tell you in what data base the journal appears and for what time period. For example, the Journal of Advertising is available in 3 different databases for 4 different time periods:

2. Access the database where the article resides and search for the article, using author, title, journal title.

3.  When you have found the article, look at the summary to find a persistent URL.

In this database

Find the URL here

All Ebsco databases

Persistent Link to this article field 

ABI-Inform

Document URL field
 

All Gale databases

Copy and past the URL from the address bar
 

In databases that do not give you a URL in the body of the document, highlight and copy the URL from the address bar in the browser.

Note: This procedure does not work with the Lexis-Nexis database. URLs to Lexis-Nexis articles are not permanent and therefore you can not create a link directly to them that will last more than a few hours.  You can, however, create a link to the database and give the students enough information to find the article themselves.