Permalinks, or stable URLs, are web addresses to items in databases we subscribe to that include an authentication prefix so that students can access things from off-campus. Our venders require the same authentication to link to individual items within a database as for access to the entire database. So let's say you want to link to an article:
- faculty may wish to do this to link articles so that their students can view them remotely
- students may wish to do this for bibliographies or group work so others can see what they have found.
1) Look for a link icon (or the word permalink) on the page of the article you wish to link to. This might be in a "tools" section or in a menu bar or box to the left or right. Clicking on this usually opens a box with the URL that you can copy and paste or may automatically do the copying and ask you to paste it somewhere. These URLs are created with the authentication prefix that will let another user from the same institution get back to where you were.
2) If the vendor does not supply a link, create your own (test it before linking it anywhere - works with many, but not all, venders):
permalink = proxy prefix + content URL
The proxy prefix is https://potsdam.idm.oclc.org/login?url=
Example:
permalink = https://potsdam.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-jstor-org.potsdam.idm.oclc.org/stable/westhistquar.45.1.0037?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=fish&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3FsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bcty_journal_facet%3Dam91cm5hbA%253D%253D%26amp%3Bsd%3D%26amp%3Bed%3D%26amp%3Bq0%3Dfish%26amp%3Bf0%3Dall%26amp%3Bc1%3DAND%26amp%3Bf1%3Dall%26amp%3Bc2%3DAND%26amp%3Bf2%3Dall%26amp%3Bc3%3DAND%26amp%3Bf3%3Dall%26amp%3Bc4%3DAND%26amp%3Bf4%3Dall%26amp%3Bc5%3DAND%26amp%3Bf5%3Dall%26amp%3Bc6%3DAND%26amp%3Bf6%3Dall%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-5055%2Fcontrol&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
