Linking to Sources

Linking to Articles or eBooks in EBSCO databases

If you find material that is housed in an EBSCO database, use the link in the Tools menu to get the permalink.

Linking to Search Results in EBSCO Databases

Following the same instructions as above, you can also link to search results from any EBSCO database. After you complete the search, click on “Share” to get the permalink to that entire search.

Linking to Specific Publications in EBSCO Databases

Use the “Publications” button to look up a specific magazine or journal that is housed in one of the EBSCO databases.

Enter the name of the publication, then follow the link in your results.

From the publication record page, click on “Share” to link to that publication page. From here you can also opt to “Search within this publication.”

If you are a faculty member looking for instructions on using Films on Demand in Canvas, please see our Canvas Integration page.

To include a link to a video that is housed in the Films on Demand database, locate the Share tool and click on Embed/Link to get the URL you’ll need to return to a specific video.

If you find material that is housed in a Gale database (i.e. Opposing Viewpoints, Academic OneFile, Gale Virtual Reference Center), use the link icon to get the permalink.

If you find material that is housed in the Global Newsstream Database, you can usually use the URL in the browser’s address bar as a persistant link to an article.

If you see security warnings or have problems with that link, you can alternatively click on the Details or Abstract/Details tab and locate the Document URL to use as the persistent link to an article.

If you find material that is housed in the HeinOnline database, use the link icon to get the permalink.

Copy the Off-Campus/Remote Access URL.

Look for the words Stable URL – you may also use the URL in the Internet browser’s address bar for JSTOR.

To link to an article housed in the Nexis Uni database, locate the “Actions” link once you have clicked into the full text of an article. Select “Link to this page.”

That will open a pop-up window which will generate the permalink to the article.

To link to Nursing Education in Videos, first select a video from the list of available titles.

Select “Embed/Link” below the video screen – from the popup, copy the URL into an email, website, Moodle course site, etc. To copy a specific segment, use the “Clips” tab and select the “Link” icon.

When you locate an eBook or eBook chapter, copy the URL from the Internet browser.

Manually add https://go.oreilly.com/vermont-technical-college?state= to the beginning of that URL to turn the link into a permalink. O’Reilly-Safari refers to this as the ‘deep link.’

Example:

URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/building-microservices/9781491950340//
Deep Link URL: https://go.oreilly.com/vermont-technical-college?state=https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/building-microservices/9781491950340/

To link to an article in the OVID Database, click on the title of that article to locate the tools menu.

Locate the “Article Tools” menu and click on “Email Jumpstart.”

Copy the “Jumpstart URL” provided.

The ScienceDirect database is one of the few library databases that provides persistent links to articles in your Internet browser’s address bar (just like a website) so you can easily copy and share these links in Moodle or by email.