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How to Create Stable URLs

Instructions or links to instructions explaining how to create durable links to journals and articles by source, i.e. database, ejournal collection, and ebook.

Creating a Stable URL Link for an Article in ScienceDirect

For ScienceDirect, you may link either to the PDF or to the html version of the article.  These two methods are explained in the image below.

 

Linking to a ScienceDirect Article

 

For off-campus access, remember to add the EZproxy prefix, http://ezp.slu.edu/login?url=   to the front of each URL.

For example,

http://ezp.slu.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2014.05.002

http://ezp.slu.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131514001158/pdf?md5=adda30ccca0ebbcf9a66d5678dfccece&pid=1-s2.0-S0360131514001158-main.pdf