1. PERSISTENT URLS What? Why?? And How??? Ann Barrett Health Sciences Librarian September 1, 2011 Dal Libraries UnZipped Lightning Information Sessions for Faculty & Researchers

2. Ever sent (or posted) a URL to students or colleagues that just wouldn’t work? The URL is probably not ‘persistent’, or ‘durable’

3. WHAT are persistent URLs? A "persistent link" or a "durable URL" is a link that does not expire or change over time. Persistent links are often used to link to academic articles, search results, or e-books. Frequently needed with subscription based resources.

4. WHY use persistent URLs? Eliminate the “This link doesn’t work!” syndrome Allows you to create URLs that work ON and OFF campus Helps you work within fair dealing guidelines Keeps you within the license agreement between Dalhousie and the publisher/vendor These links should work from year to year in your OWL or course space

5. HOW to make them? – there are 2 ways Method 1: from a Dalhousie Libraries database Any of the Dalhousie Libraries databases offer either (or both): A “Permalink” feature to create persistent URLs GetIt@Dal button that has a persistent link feature Online Tutorials: Persistent URLs: What are they? http://libcasts.library.dal.ca/Journals/URL/One/URL1.html http://libcasts.library.dal.ca/Journals/URL/One/URL1.html Persistent URLs: How to make them. http://libcasts.library.dal.ca/Journals/URL/Two/URL2.html http://libcasts.library.dal.ca/Journals/URL/Two/URL2.html

6. Method 1: Creating persistent URLs from Dalhousie databases like… Proquest Ebsco WorldCat Local Pubmed

7. EBSCO

9. PROQUEST

11. PUBMED

14. WorldCat Local

16. Method 2: Creating persistent URLs from Dalhousie Libraries eJournals lookup Citation Linker… http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/dal/az http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/dal/az Online Tutorials: Persistent URLs: What are they? http://libcasts.library.dal.ca/Journals/URL/One/URL1.html http://libcasts.library.dal.ca/Journals/URL/One/URL1.html Persistent URLs: How to make them. http://libcasts.library.dal.ca/Journals/URL/Two/URL2.html http://libcasts.library.dal.ca/Journals/URL/Two/URL2.html

20. The problem of long URLs… Tiny URL http://tinyurl.com/http://tinyurl.com/ can take this… and make it into this. http://aleph1.novanet.ns.ca/F/JGT5UADJTKU4 A1FH8K15TTKQAABI7TL4VTVBEV1B1JRDUAF9 R4-54086?func=full-set- set&set_number=007098&set_entry=000029 &format=999 http://tinyurl.com/3ffknav

21. That’s it in a nutshell. Any questions? Dal Libraries UnZipped Lightning Information Sessions for Faculty & Researchers