Creating a Persistent Link: Instructions 

JSTOR

1. Find the article to which you want to create a link.

2. In the Table of Contents list or in the Results list, copy the Stable URL below the title and author:

3. Use the Link Converter to make the Persistent Link accessible to all users.

4. Test the link in a web browser by pasting it into the address bar. Be sure to remove any blank spaces before the link.

5. Paste the link into Blackboard or whatever document you are creating.

IF THE URL WRAPS IN THE DOCUMENT YOU ARE WORKING IN, DO NOT TRY TO ADJUST IT BY HITTING THE BACKSPACE KEY. THIS USUALLY DELETES A CHARACTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE URL, AND THE PERSISTENT LINK WILL NOT WORK!

If you have any trouble creating the persistent link, please contact Kate Silton.

LexisNexis

Although LexisNexis supports document-level persistent linking, they are very difficult to construct.

The easiest thing to do is to instruct users to:

1. Go to our library's PERIODICALS/JOURNAL search: http://hg7bv9tg8l.search.serialssolutions.com/

2. Type the name of the newspaper or publication in which the article is found

3. Once within LexisNexis, users should type the title of the article in question, and adjust the date range to include the date the article was published.

If you would like to try to construct a document-level persistent link, you can accees LexisNexis's URL API Specification instructions at:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicmigration/viewpage.asp?p=8

If you have any trouble creating the persistent link, please contact Kate Silton.

Project Muse

1. Find the article to which you want to create a link.

2. Copy and paste the URL from your browser's address bar:

3. Test the link in a web browser by pasting it into the address bar. Be sure to remove any blank spaces before the link.

4. Paste the link into Blackboard or whatever document you are creating.

If you have any trouble creating the persistent link, please contact Kate Silton.

ProQuest

1. Find the article in the database. You can create a link to the abstract page, the PDF version, or the HTML full-text version. Click on whichever format to which you would like to create a link..

2. Look for the at the top of the page, in the upper-left corner:

3. Copy and paste the URL in the Document URL field. Be sure to scroll all the way to the right to capture the entire URL.

4. Test the link in a web browser by pasting it into the address bar. Be sure to remove any blank spaces before the link.

5. Paste the link into Blackboard or whatever document you are creating.

IF THE URL WRAPS IN THE DOCUMENT YOU ARE WORKING IN, DO NOT TRY TO ADJUST IT BY HITTING THE BACKSPACE KEY. THIS USUALLY DELETES A CHARACTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE URL, AND THE PERSISTENT LINK WILL NOT WORK!

If you have any trouble creating the persistent link, please contact Kate Silton.

University of Chicago Press

1. Find the article to which you want to create a link.

2. Copy and paste the URL from your browser's address bar:

3. Use the Link Converter to make the Persistent Link accessible to all users.

4. Test the link in a web browser by pasting it into the address bar. Be sure to remove any blank spaces before the link.

5. Paste the link into Blackboard or whatever document you are creating.

IF THE URL WRAPS IN THE DOCUMENT YOU ARE WORKING IN, DO NOT TRY TO ADJUST IT BY HITTING THE BACKSPACE KEY. THIS USUALLY DELETES A CHARACTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE URL, AND THE PERSISTENT LINK WILL NOT WORK!

If you have any trouble creating the persistent link, please contact Kate Silton.