Electronic Resource Linking

Linking to electronic resources

These instructions are for linking directly to a database or ejournal service, not to a journal or article itself.

Go to the database page or the fulltext databases and ejournals publishers page:
http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/databases/databases.shtml
http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/databases/fulltext.shtml
Find the database or ejournal publisher of interest in the list
Right click on the link and select Copy Shortcut
Paste to destination.

Finding an ejournal or article

Go to the SDSU Citation Linker and search for your article
A menu will pop up and tell you if we have the journal electronically for that year.
Select a database and use the instructions below to link.
These instructions will only work with databases that provide persistent URLs at the article level. The databases below have been tested and are known to work.
Use the SDSU Periodicals Locator if you are searching for a specific periodical (as opposed to article).

Make a shorter link

Very long links (over 250 characters) may not fit in software such as Blackboard. You can use the Make a Shorter Link service at http://www.makeashorterlink.com to generate brief URLs. This will only work with persistent URLs.

EBSCO databases

(includes Academic Search Premier and others)

Link to journal:

Go to the database

Click Publications tab

Find journal

Note the PDF Full Text and HTML Full Text icons below the journal title. If a journal doesn't have one of these icons, the full text isn't available from this database.

Click the title of the journal.

Select and copy the URL next to Link to this Journal.

Preceed this URL with the EZproxy prefix: http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=

Example:
Women's Health Weekly
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?jid=WHW&db=afh

Link to article:

Go to the database

Find article

Select and copy the URL next to Persistant Link to this Record.

Preceed this URL with the EZproxy prefix: http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=
Example:
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=10302180&db=afh&tg=AN

Education Full Text

Link to article:

Go to the database and conduct search (if you wish to only see titles with full text available, select Limit to Full Text).|
Find the article you want to link to

Click the click to copy the HTML full text for this article or click to copy the PDF for this article link

Preceed this URL with the EZproxy prefix: http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=

Example:
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdfhtml/01727/479NU/2S5.htm

JSTOR

Link to journal:

Go to the complete detailed title list at:
http://www.jstor.org/about/alpha.content.html

Find the journal title to link to and copy the journal URL.

Preceed this URL with the EZproxy prefix: http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=

Example:
Affrican Affairs
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/journals/00019909.html

Link to article:

Go to JSTOR and browse or search to the article.

Select and copy the URL next to Stable URL

Preceed this URL with the EZproxy prefix: http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=

You can alternately use the JSTOR Citation Linking Tool.
Example:
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-5301%28198503%2911%3A4%3C877%3AETTORE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O

Project MUSE

Link to article:

Go to Project MUSE and search for article

Select article(s) by checking the box to the left of search results and clicking Save marked entries
Click the Email/Export Saved Results link in the upper right

Select export marked results to printer friendly format and click the export button.

Select and copy the URL from the record.

Preceed this URL with the EZproxy prefix: http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=

Example:
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v024/24.4graubart.html

Proquest databases

ABI/Inform, Proquest General Reference, Proquest Newspapers and others

Link to journal:

Go to the database (e.g. Proquest General Reference)

Click on the Publication tab and search for journal title.

Click on the title of the correct journal

Click on the My Research tab.

Click on Create a Web Page and select Download.

Right click the title of the journal you wish to link to and copy the URL.

Proquest adds the EZproxy prefix for you, so no need to do so.

Example:
Women's Health Weekly
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?pmid=51279&clientId=17862&RQT=318&VName=PQD

Link to article:

Go to the database (e.g. Proquest General Reference)

Search for article.

Click the title of the article you wish to link to.

Copy the URL next to Document URL

Proquest adds the EZproxy prefix for you, so no need to do so.

Example:
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=852978851&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=17862&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Science Direct (Elsevier)

Link to journal:

Go to Science Direct and click on the Journals tab.

Browse to journal title and click on the title to see the record.

Select and copy the URL next to Bookmark this page as.

Preceed this URL with the EZproxy prefix: http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=

Example:
Thin Solid Fumes
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00406090

Link to article:

Go to Science Direct and search or browse to article.

Select one or more search results by checking the boxes next to them and click the Export Citations link.

Change the file format to ASCII and click Export.

Select and copy the URL text included with the citation.

Preceed this URL with the EZproxy prefix: http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=

Example:
http://libproxy.sdsu.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VCK-45XT3MW-1/2/494931af2bece2c2da7b5a23df1743e2

Electronic Resource Linking

Table of contents:

Linking to electronic resources

Finding an ejournal or article

Make a shorter link

EBSCO databases

Education Full Text

JSTOR

Project MUSE

Proquest databases

Science Direct (Elsevier)