New category added for my blog today: Linking. One of the things I use this blog for is as a reference tool, a place to keep annotated bookmarks. As a new semester begins I’m asked by faculty to help them build persistent links to articles to insert into BlackBoard, and I can do the common ones (EBSCO and ProQuest) with my eyes closed, but when they ask for a less-common database I usually have to dig around to remember how to build a link for that product. So here’s the first of what I hope are many posts on how to create permanent links in various databases. When possible I’ll link to the vendor’s instructions, but if I happen across a library page that just works, that’s what I’ll post, and that’s what we have here. Now personally I’m not sure what Mita’s talking about when she says “getting closer” ’cause the links just plain old seem to work for me! I suspect she’s talking about the GetIT application they use, as opposed to manually building the links…
Getting closer to linking into Digital Dissertations As I have stated before, the most failed link from our GetIT has been from Digital Abstracts to Digital Disseratations. My colleague has been in contact with Proquest and I think we are getting closer to making links.
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