Obtaining Persistent Links to Full Text articles EBSCO Databases
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Obtaining Persistent Links to Full Text articles
EBSCO Databases
(Academic Search Premier, Alt Health Watch, Business Source Premier, Canadian Reference Centre,
CINAHL,Communication & Mass Media Complete, Computer Science Index, Ebsco Animals, Environment Complete,
Eric, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, GreenFILE, Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition, Health Source
Consumer Edition, Humanities International Index, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Literary
Reference Centre & Canadian Literary Centre, MagillOnLiterature Plus, MEDLINE, Military & Government Collection,
Primary Search, Regional Business News, SocINDEX with Full Text), Teacher Reference Center.
1. Find the article that you are interested in.
2. Copy and paste the “Persistent link to this record (Permalink)” into a text editor.
3. Add “http://lcweb.senecac.on.ca:2048/login?url=” to the front of the link.
4. The example:
http://lcweb.senecac.on.ca:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&
db=aph&AN=32926730&site=ehostlive&scope=site is a persistent link to the article above. The link
can be sent to students via email, placed on a course web page, etc.
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Obtaining Persistent Links to Titles
EBSCO Databases
1. Click “Publications”, enter the journal title and click “Browse”.
2. Click the journal title.
3. Cut and paste the “Link to this Publication” URL into a text editor.
4. Add “http://lcweb.senecac.on.ca:2048/login?url=” to the front of the link.
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5. The example:
http://lcweb.senecac.on.ca:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&
db=aph&jid=CBU&site=ehostlive is a persistent link to the journal above. The link can be sent to
students via email, placed on a course web page, etc.
Obtaining Persistent Links to Searches
EBSCO Databases
1. Execute a search.
2. Click on the “Alert/ Save/ Share” at the top of the result list.
3. Copy and paste the “permalink” from the pop up box.
4. Add “http://lcweb.senecac.on.ca:2048/login?url=” to the front of the link.
5. The example:
http://lcweb.senecac.on.ca:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&
db=aph&bquery=(%22beijing%22+%22olympics%22)+and+(%22human%22+%22rights%22)&typ
e=1&site=ehostlive&scope=site is a persistent link to the search above. The link can be sent to
students via email, placed on a course web page, etc. Clicking on the link will retrieve the most recent
“hits” available in a database.
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