How to Find and Link a Journal Article: Home

Background on Persistent Links

• URLs that connect users directly to library database articles
• Easily built and useful when creating online syllabi, reading lists, bibliographies and other research tools
• Persistent links are also termed "durable" or "stable" links because the links continue to work over time (usually for months or even years)
• Assist instructors both to comply with copyright law and to save money on the purchase of copyright permissions. Electronic articles and books accessed from USAWC persistent links are paid for in database license agreements. In effect, accessing articles by hot-linking into a library database has been pre-paid by the library.
• Faculty, Staff, and Students will be able to access articles via persistent links almost anywhere in the world

Linking to an Article

Many databases with full-text articles provide "Persistent link" capabilities. Different databases use different means for persistent links to articles (i.e. it's not always a simple matter of copying the address from the address window of your browser). A method to find the persistent link for each database is provided below. A list of our available databases can be found on the library website.

Important Tips

• Persistent URLs will generally not have the words "session ID" or "results" in the URL
• Persistent URLs will continue to work if you delete your browser files, or if you click on them from another computer
• Persistent URLs will continue to work if you click on them a few days later
• Use the Link builder for the best results.

Use this tool to reformat database links for off-site access.

If you have a link that looks similar to this: 10.1080/03071847.2014.927989, it is called a Digital Object Identifier, or DOI. Make sure it is preceeded by http://dx.doi.org/ before you go to Step 2.

Generally speaking, documents from these frequently used websites are open-access, and therefore do not require an EZProxy prefix.