Creating Article Links to Place in eLearning Ellen Neuhaus Coordinator for Distance Learning Library Services Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

From Library home page, go to Distance Learners website

Go to the Faculty Resources section

Go to the Creating Articles Links document

Step 1 Finding the persistent URL (PURL)

When students click on the link… they are taken directly to the article. Students enter the library resource but instead of starting at an opening screen they are taken directly to the online article.

Linking is a licensing issue © Linking to articles found in licensed library resources takes the issue out of copyright and places it into the licensing environment. For the most part, there shouldn’t be problems with deep-linking to articles found in licensed resources.

Finding the persistent URL can be complicated… 1 No industry-wide standards for persistent URLs Databases are developed by different companies 2 Often there is a field located in the database called a “Persistent URL” Various names: Persistent, Durable, Bookmark 3 Click on the title of the article to bring up the record Scroll down the record until you find the field

If you find a persistent URL field in a library database…. Copy this link and paste it into a plain text program such as Notepad. By doing this, you will get rid of unwanted formatting.

Step 2 Proxifying persistent URLs for off-campus access

Directions – How to proxify a link The following text should be added to the beginning of all article or database durable URLs. https://login.proxy.lib.uni.edu/login?url=

Example – Article Link Article Citation: Welch, Michael. (2002) “Moral Panic Over Youth Violence.” Youth & Society, v.34, n.3, pp.3-30. Step 1: Finding the persistent URL in a library database http://yas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/34/1/3.pdf Step 2: Proxifying the link: Add beginning text https://login.proxy.lib.uni.edu/login?url=http://yas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/34/1/3.pdf

Other Options… Database Links Fair Use E-Reserves No persistent URL, then place the proxified database link in your eLearning module. Students will be taken to the beginning screen in the database. They can enter the article title to retrieve the article. Fair Use If an article is not available in the database, you can possible use the fair use part of the U.S. Copyright Law. Fair use involves 4 factors [Purpose and character of use, nature of work, amount & substantiality of portion taken, and effect on the use upon potential market] E-Reserves Use Rod Library’s Electronic Course Reserves Service. Staff will create article links for you [find persistent URL and proxify the link] If there is no persistent URL, then they can possibly use fair use.