Persistent Linking

"Persistent Links" are URLs that connect users directly to a library database or article by clicking a link embedded in a Web page. Persistent links can be useful when creating syllabi, using Blackboard or creating online reading lists or bibliographies.

The persistent links are designed so that faculty and students can access the articles whether or not they are on the campus network. The proxy server which regulates access from off campus will require each faculty member or student to log in with the 14-digit barcode number found on the bottom of their Cougar Card.

How links are created depends on the database, and some databases do not allow them to be created at all. Some databases expire links after a certain period of time - usually 3 months or more. 

Databases and Instructions

EBSCO Databases

  • Academic Search Premier
  • Art Abstracts
  • ATLA
  • Business Source Complete
  • CINAHL
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
  • ERIC
  • Health Source Nursing
  • MAS Ultra
  • Mental Measurements
  • Military & Government Collection
  • MLA Bibliography
  • Music Index
  • Newspaper Source
  • Professional Development Collection
  • Regional Business News
  • Social Sciences Abstracts
  1. View the full record (not the full-text) of article.
  2. Copy the URL from the "Persistent Link to this Record" line (near the bottom).
  3. Copy and paste the new link into your document (the SXU proxy server links are already there).

ACM Digital Library (Association of Computing Machinery)

  1. Link to the PDF version of the article.
  2. Copy the URL found in the address bar.
  3. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  4. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

ACS Journals (American Chemical Society)

  1. Link to the PDF version of the article.
  2. Copy the URL found in the address bar.
  3. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  4. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

Catholic Encyclopedia

  1. View the abstract or article.
  2. Click on "Infomark" at the top of the page OR go to the "Source Citation" at the bottom of the article citation.
  3. Copy the url, leaving off the parentheses.
  4. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  5. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

CQ Researcher

  1. View article
  2. Click "Cite Now!" link
  3. Copy URL displayed in small window
  4. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  5. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

Expanded Academic ASAP

  1. View the abstract or article.
  2. Click on "Bookmark this Document."
  3. Copy the url under "Copy the Bookmark URL and paste it into another document."
  4. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  5. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

JSTOR

  1. View the abstract or article.
  2. Go to the "Stable URL" in the article citation.
  3. Copy this URL.
  4. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  5. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

Kraus Curriculum Development Collection

  1. View the article.
  2. Copy the URL in the browser bar.
  3. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  4. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

Literature Resource Center

  1. View the article.
  2. Copy the URL in the browser bar.
  3. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  4. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

Mergeant Online

  1. View the article.
  2. Copy the URL in the browser bar.
  3. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  4. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

Opposing Viewpoints

  1. View the abstract or article.
  2. Go to the Source Citation at the bottom of the page
  3. Copy the url in the Source Citation, leaving off the brackets
  4. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  5. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

Proquest Databases

  • Chicago Tribune current and historical files
  • Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
  • Ethnic Newswatch
  • New York Times historical files
  1. View the abstract or article.
  2. Click on "Copy link" at the top of the page OR go to the "Document URL" at the bottom of the article citation.
  3. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  4. Copy and paste the new link into your document.

ScienceDirect

  1. View the abstract or article.
  2. Click on "Export Citation."
  3. Click the Export button.
  4. Copy the url, leaving off the parentheses.
  5. Add http://apps2.sxu.edu:2048/login?url= to the beginning of the URL.
  6. Copy and paste the new link into your document.