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Linking to Articles in Online Journals

Many online journals allow linking to individual articles via a course Web site or online syllabus, including courses delivered through WebCT or COMET. In some cases doing this is as easy as copying the link as it appears in the browser address/location bar, in others a special link may need to be created or found. For the best results, follow the instructions below exactly. You will also need to occasionally check the links you have created to make sure they are still accurate, since links are subject to change without notice.

Off Campus Access: Following these instructions does not bypass any access restrictions to journals from off campus. If you want access to these articles from off campus, you will still need to follow the directions for accessing Dana from off campus.

Not All Journal Articles Are Available Online: If you would like to have a print copy of an article scanned and placed on Electronic Reserve, contact Curriculum Support Services at the Dana Medical Library by calling 656-2200, or see the Course Reserve Web Site for more information.

We can help. If you want some help linking to an article in an online journal, please contact Curriculum Support Services at the Dana Medical Library by calling 656-2200, or see the Course Reserve Web Site for more information.

For Most Online Journals

  • Connect to UVM E-Journals using one of the following methods:
  • Find the article, and open the full text.
  • Copy the link in the address/location bar and paste it into your document.
This simple procedure works beautifully for articles in most online journals. In some cases however, the link you find in the browser address/location bar will change every time you connect to the article. If you copy and paste that link into your course web page, there's no guarantee that it will connect you to the same article next time you click on it. The link is dynamic. What you want is a permanent, persistent, stable link to the article.

Special Cases

Special steps are necessary to find or create permenant links for journal articles in the following online journal packages:
  • Academic Search Premiere
  • CINAHL
  • EBSCOhost EJS
  • IngentaConnect
  • JSTOR
  • OVID (Journals@Ovid)
  • Science Direct
  • SpringerLink

Academic Search Premiere

How to know if you're viewing an Academic Search Premiere article: Text at the top of the page under the green bar: Database: Academic Search Premier Publications.
  • Open the article.
  • Click on the Citation link at the top of the screen.
  • Look for the "Persistent link to this record" section.
  • Copy and paste this URL into the document.
Example
Metastatic Disease of the Skeleton. Buckwalter, JA, Brandser EA. American Family Physician. 55(5):1761-8, 1997 Apr.
uses this permanent link:
http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=9705162702
Note: Click on the "PDF Full Text button" at the top of the page.

CINAHL

How to know if you're viewing an CINAHL article: OVID logo appears in the upper left corner of the web page.
  • Click on the Ovid Full Text link.
  • A permanent URL must be created. The base URL is
    http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&NEWS=n&AN=
  • The Accession Number (AN) must be added after the final = sign. The accession number is found at the end of the article and looks like this:
    xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx
  • Copy and paste the accession number after the base URL.
  • The completed URL should look like this
    http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&NEWS=n&AN=xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx
  • Copy and paste this URL into the document.
Example
White- Patterns Of Knowing: Review, Critique, And Update. Advances In Nursing Science, V. 17, #4, 1995, P. 73
uses this permanent link:
http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&NEWS=n&AN=00012272-199506000-00007
Note: 1 user at a time.

EBSCOhost EJS

How to know if you're viewing an EBSCOhost EJS article: University of Vermont Libraries appears in the upper left corner and the URL in the Citation section of the record will start with http://ejournals.ebsco.com.
  • Find the article you wish to use.
  • In the article citation information, look for the url
  • Copy and paste URL in location/address box into the document.
Example
Optimal Delay Time for the Hepatic Parenchymal Enhancement at the Multidetector CT Examination. Yong E Chung. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Volume 30, Number 2 (March 2006). pp 182 - 188
uses this permanent link:
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4A7D9918DE8ADA8DB9FA
Note: Click on the "Open in New Window" link below the citation.

Health and Wellness Resource Center

How to know if you're viewing an Health and Wellness Resource Center article: Health and Wellness Resource Center logo appears in the upper left corner.
  • Find the article you wish to use.
  • Only articles with the have a permanent link.
  • Copy and paste URL in location/address box into the document.
Example
Surviving Breast Cancer. Canales. Family and Community Health, v. 26, #1, pp. 11- 24, 2003
uses this permanent link:
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HWRC/hits?index1=RN&tcit=0_1_0_0_0&r lt=2&origSearch=true&t=RK&s=11&r=d&items= 0&secondary=false&n=10&l=d&sgPhrase=true&c=1&bucket=per&text1=A96305929&docNum=A96305929&locID=vol_b92b

IngentaConnect

How to know if you're viewing an IngentaConnect article: IngentaConnect logo at the upper left of the web page.
  • The information you need to create a link is on the article is on the page with the article title, authors, source, and publisher.
  • The base link is
    http://dx.doi.org/doi
  • Depending on how you access the article, the doi number is found either below the article title, authors, source, publisher, abstract, keywords and document type, or just above the article title. It looks like this:
    DOI:10.1080/02699050600677196
  • Copy and paste this number (without the DOI:) after the base link.
  • The completed link should look like this
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699050600677196
  • Copy and paste this link into your document.
Example
Management of impaired self-awareness in persons with traumatic brain injury. Cheng, S. K. W., Man, D. W. K. Brain Injury, Volume 20, Number 6, June 2006, pp. 621-628(8)
uses this permanent link:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699050600677196"
Note: Click on the "Open Entire Document" button in the lower right corner of the screen.

JSTOR

How to know if you're viewing an JSTOR article: JSTOR logo at the top of the page.
  • Look for the Stable URL line in the citation.
Example
Body Ritual Among the Nacivema. H Milner American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 58, No. 3. (Jun., 1956), pp. 503-507
uses this permanent link:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28195606%292%3A58%3A3%3C503%3ABRATN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

OVID (Journals@Ovid)

How to know if you're viewing an OVID (Journals@Ovid) article: OVID logo appears in the upper left corner of the web page.
  • Click on the Ovid Full Text link.
  • A permanent URL must be created. The base URL is
    http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&NEWS=n&AN=
  • The Accession Number (AN) must be added after the final = sign. The accession number is found at the end of the article and looks like this:
    xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx
  • Copy and paste the accession number after the base URL.
  • The completed URL should look like this
    http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&NEWS=n&AN=xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx
  • Copy and paste this URL into the document.
Example
Self-care in medical education: effectiveness of health-habits interventions for first-year medical student. Ball S, Bax A. Acad Med. 2002 Sep;77(9):911-7
uses this permanent link:
http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&NEWS=n&AN=00001888-200209000-00023
Note: 1 user at a time.

Science Direct

How to know if you're viewing an Science Direct article: Science Direct Logo at the upper left corner of the web page.
  • If an Elsevier Article Locator page loads, click the Article via Science Direct link to get to the article.
  • Open the article in "Full Text + Links" format, not PDF.
  • A permanent URL must be created. The base URL is
    http://dx.doi.org/doi
  • The doi number is found under the article citation in the upper left. It looks like this:
    doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00260-0
  • Copy and paste this number (without the doi:) after the base URL.
  • The completed URL should look like this
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00260-0
  • Copy and paste this URL into the document.
Example
Women, work and musculoskeletal health. Social Science & Medicine. Volume 58, Issue 6 March 2004, Pages 997-1005.

SpringerLink

How to know if you're viewing an SpringerLink article: SpringerLink logo at the upper left of the web page.
  • Click on the link to open the article's abstract page. The information you need to create the permanent link is on this page.
  • The base URL is
    http://dx.doi.org/doi
  • The doi number is found under the article citation in the upper left. It looks like this:
    DOI: 10.1007/s00418-004-0667-z
  • Copy and paste this number (without the doi:) after the base URL.
  • The completed URL should look like this
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00418-004-0667-z
  • Copy and paste this URL into the document.
Example
Fibroblasts form a body-wide cellular network.Langevin. HM, Cornbrooks CJ, et al. Histochem Cell Biol. 2004 Jul;122(1):7-15. Epub 2004 Jun 23
uses this permanent link:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00418-004-0667-z
Note: To open the article, scroll down the page and click on the Entire Document button.
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