APPENDIX A: Guide to providing direct links to content in the Walden Library databases

 

 

Providing direct links to articles and other sources in the Walden Library can be tricky. In a few of our resources you can use the URL as it appears in your browser. However, in more than half of our databases you must find the database-assigned permanent URL for each individual document to ensure that the link will work consistently for all users. This guide will help you find the correct link to use in each of our databases.

 

Please Note: Always make sure you are going through the Walden Library to access databases when looking for articles to use in courses or share with other Walden users. This will make sure that our Walden authentication information is included in the URLs generated.

 

Every direct link should have the string “ezp.waldenulibrary.org” visible somewhere in the URL – this shows that our authentication has been accounted for and included.

 

EBSCO databases

 

Includes: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, Education Research Complete, ERIC, Inspec, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Mental Measurements Yearbook, Military & Government Collection, NTIS, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycINFO, Regional Business News, SocINDEX with Full Text, Teacher Reference Center

 

Find the target article in the database. From the search results screen, click on the title of the article to open the “Citation” page.

 

Near the bottom of the page there will be a field called “Persistent link to this record (Permalink)”. Use the URL given as the permanent direct link to the article.

 

ProQuest databases

 

Includes: ABI/Inform Global, Criminal Justice Periodicals, Dissertations & Theses, Dissertations & Theses at Walden University, Health & Medical Complete, Hoover's Company Records, Nursing & Allied Health Source, Proquest Central

 

Find the target article in the database. From the search results screen, click on the title of the article to open the “Document View” page. Scroll to the very bottom of the Document View page to find the “Indexing (document details)” section.

 

Here there will be a field called “Document URL”. Use the URL given as the permanent direct link to the article.

 

SAGE databases

 

Includes: eReference from Sage; Education, Health Sciences, Management, Political Science, and Psychology Full-Text collections.

 

Find the target article in the database. Open the PDF of the full-text article. (Note: eReference does not use PDFs. Simply open the full-text view of the target document.)

 

For this resource you may copy the URL of the PDF as it appears in the address bar of the browser. Sage does not use separate permanent URLs for its articles.

 

Gale databases

 

Includes: Fine Arts & Music Collection, General Science Collection, LegalTrac, MLA International Bibliography, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

 

Find the target article in the database. From the search results screen, click on the title of the article to open the document information. There will be four or five information fields at the top of this page (Title, Source, etc.). One field will be labeled “Bookmark” and it will be followed by a “Bookmark this page” link (usually in green text).

 

Click the “Bookmark this page” link. A new window will open with a Bookmark URL. Use the URL given as the permanent direct link to the article.

 

OvidSP databases

 

Includes: Medline, Nursing Books, Nursing Journals

 

Find the target article in the database. Look for the link to “Ovid Full Text” for the article – this is usually on the far right hand side of the search result.

 

Open the “Ovid Full Text” view of the article. On the far right-hand side of the page there will be a link for “Email jumpstart”. Click this link; a new window will open. At the top of the new window there will be a field labeled “Your Jumpstart URL is:” - use the URL given as the permanent direct link to the article.

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education

 

Note: be sure to access The Chronicle via the link on the library web site. Find the target article in The Chronicle; click on the title of the article to open the full-article view.

 

For this resource you may copy the URL as it appears in the address bar of the browser. The Chronicle does not use separate permanent URLs for its articles.

 

Please contact the library for help establishing permanent links for articles from library databases not explicitly listed in this appendix.