Linking
to Articles Online
This
page is to help you create persistent links to online articles rather
than posting full text. Many publishers do not allow posting of their
electronic content without permission
to the public portion of OCW, personal web pages, or any other
web site which is accessible beyond MIT.
Note: Harvard Business Review has a more restrictive policy about linking than other journals.
If you want to have a scanned article available for a class see the Course Reserves FAQ.
Options for creating persistent links to articles:
- Use a DOI
- Use Publisher-Produced persistent URLs
- Use the SFX FullText Finder
Many articles
now have DOIs associated with them that can be found on publishers'
web sites:
Option
2: Use Publisher-Produced persistent URLs
Many
publishers or full text databases will provide persistent URLs to their
content.
- The persistent URL of the example above from Proquest is:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=863945981&sid=
1&Fmt=3&clientId=5482&RQT=309&VName=PQD
- Make a persistent URL that will work for MIT users when off-campus by appending the persistent URL to the MIT Libraries' proxy string: http://libproxy.mit.edu/login?url=
This example:
http://libproxy.mit.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=863945981&sid=
1&Fmt=3&clientId=5482&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Option 3: Use the SFX FullText Finder
The SFX FullText Finder not only finds full text that
MIT has access to, but will also create an OpenURL that can provide a persistent link to the SFX menu for the cited item, which will often include a link to the full text. This OpenURL will work from off-campus, assuming that the user has MIT web certificates.
1. Enter the citation information into the SFX FullText Finder.
2. Once the correct item is found with an online link
to the full text, click on "Create a persistent link" in
the SFX menu, which will provide the OpenURL along with further instructions.
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