Add Links to Scholarly Articles to Your Blackboard Course Pages
Library

Many of the library's databases provide persistent links to the articles that they index.  You can use these persistent links to connect your students directly to scholarly information within your Blackboard classroom. What's more, you do not need to place these articles on reserve with the library—simply find an article in a database and place the link in your classroom.  There are no copyright law concerns as this issue is covered by the database license. Students will be asked to authenticate in the usual manner (entering 23311 and their 9-digit ID number).

Step 1: Search for an article in a database

Databases that provide persistent links include all EBSCO databases (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Elite, PsycARTICLES, ERIC, etc), FirstSearch databases (ABI Inform, AGRICOLA, BasicBIOSIS, Periodical Abstracts, Wilson Select Plus, etc), JSTOR, and American National Biography. 

Step 2: Find that article's persistent link

Most of the databases list the persistent link near citation information for the article.  For assistance locating persistent links, see the examples below.

Step 3: Add the library's prefix to the link

In order to ensure that the link works for your students, it is very important to add the following prefix to the beginning of your persistent link:

http://ezproxy.roosevelt.edu:2048/login?url=

Adding this prefix to the persistent link will make the library's proxy server authentication screen appear when the persistent link is clicked. Off-campus users can enter their entire RU ID number (starting with 23311), and then they will be taken to the article. For best results, create your links in Notepad. Open Notepad, copy the above prefix, and paste into your Notepad document. Next copy and paste the persistent link you found in the database immediately after the equal sign.

Step 4: Place the link in your classroom

Go to the place in your course where you would like the link to appear, and add the link you created in Step 3.

You're done!

For further assistance, contact the library's distance learning specialists:
Jacob Jeremiah – 312-341-6965
Jennifer Lau-Bond – 312-341-2605
dlref@roosevelt.edu

Where to find Persistent Links

• EBSCOHost Databases (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, SocINDEX, PsycARTICLES, ERIC, etc.)
• FirstSearch Databases (ABI Inform, AGRICOLA, BasicBIOSIS, Periodical Abstracts, Wilson Select Plus, etc)
• JSTOR
• Academic OneFile
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
• American National Biography

EBSCOHost Databases

In EBSCOHost Databases, go to the bottom of an article's citation page:
 

Add the prefix, and you have:

http://ezproxy.roosevelt.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24590111&loginpage=login.asp&site=ehost-live
 

FirstSearch Databases

In FirstSearch databases, click the View Full Text In… link, and then click the button. The persistent link will appear on the next page:

Add the prefix, and you have:

http://ezproxy.roosevelt.edu:2048/login?url=http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP?sici=0038-6952%2820070310%29%3CN%2FA%3ATFF%3E&dbname=PerAbs_FT

JSTOR

In JSTOR, the persistent link appears in the search result list, and can also be found by clicking the Article Information link at the top of the page when viewing an article:
 

Add the prefix, and you have:

http://ezproxy.roosevelt.edu:2048/login?url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-8075%2818900613%292%3A15%3A384%3C362%3ACB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Academic OneFile

In Academic OneFile, click the link that appears at the very top left corner of the screen when you view an article:

A pop-up window will appear displaying the persistent link to the article:

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

To link to an article in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, you can build a persistent link using the Durable Links tool at this site:

http://www.amdev.net/lna_article_link.php

After you have found an article in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, go to the above site. Enter the publication name, click Submit, and click the correct CSI number:

The form will expand; enter as much information about the article as possible in the available fields:

Click Submit, and the Durable Link will appear.

If you click the Test Link button while on-campus, Lexis-Nexis will open, and if the Link was created correctly, the article will appear.

Add the prefix to the durable link, and you have:

http://ezproxy.roosevelt.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/api/version1/sr?shr=t&csi=164723&sr=HLEAD(Farming+has+a+positive+future)+AND+DATE+IS+December+8+2006

American National Biography

In American National Biography, the persistent link is at the very bottom of a biography page, in very small text:

Add the prefix, and you have:

http://ezproxy.roosevelt.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.anb.org/articles/07/07-00791.html