How to add the hyperlinks of journal articles onto your web-based course materials

You may add the hyperlinks of journal articles accessible at the following full-text collections at your web-based course materials : Hyperlinks of journal articles accessible at the above databases have persistent URLs. However, the availability of the articles in EBSCOhost and ProQuest may not be permanent.

According to the licence agreements of the databases listed above, these databases and their hyperlinks to journal articles must be used by CUHK members only and can be accessible via CUHK Campus Network only.  Also, only the hyperlinks to the journal articles at these databases but NOT the downloaded files nor scanned images of the journal articles can be put on your web-based course materials.

How to obtain the persistent URL of the hyperlinks of journal articles?

At EBSCOhost:

  1. Locate your full-text article.
  2. Click on "Save" button from the toolbar.
  3. Click on "Links" button at Save Manager screen. Then choose the first radio button "HTML link(s) to articles" and click on "Save" button.
  4. The hyperlink of the selected article will then be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
 At  IEEE Xplore:
Links can be created at an issue's table of contents level (for journals/magazines) only. You can't link directly to the "PDF Full-Text", but there is a link to PDF from the table of contents. For links to a journal/magazine's issue level, the linking algorithm is: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=X&isvol=Y&isno=Z

whereas

X = an IEEE-designated publication number, unique to each title
Y = the volume number
Z = the issue number
A list of Journals/Magazines with IEEE publication numbers, volume/issue numbers, and corresponding links can be located at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/periodicals.jsp

For example, the URL of the journal Electronic Devices, IEEE Transaction (Year:2002 Vol. 49, Issue 8) is http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=16 &isvol=49&isno=8

 At  JSTOR:
  1. Find the article & copy the URL of the full article.
  2. Delete all characters starting with "?" of that URL.
  3. Use the modified URL as the persistent URL of the article.
  4. For example, the URL on the location box of Netscape of the article Spatial Order and Police in Imperial Beijing (Journal of Asian Studies 52:4 p.885-992) is http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/viewitem.fcg/00219118/di973760/97p0378r/0?config=jstor&frame=frame&userID=89bdaae9@cuhk.edu.hk/8dd5254c00501e1af9&dpi=3&PAGE=0 Delete all characters starting with "?", then the URL is modified as:
    http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/viewitem.fcg/00219118/di973760/97p0378r/0
At OVID Web Gateway:
  1. The syntax of the persistent URL of articles is: http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&D=database-code&PAGE=fulltext&AN=accession-number
  2. Substitute database-code of the above URL with the following codes:
    Databasedatabase-code
    CancerLitcanc
    CINAHLnursing
    HealthSTARhstr
    Journals@Ovidovft
    Medline 1966+mesz
    Medline 1997+medl
    Medline 1966-1996medb
  3. Substitute accession-number of the above URL with the Accession Number or the Unique Identifier of the full article. To obtain the accession number or the unique identifier, you have to perform a search at OVID and view the record of the article needed.  The accession number or unique identifier can be obtained at the "Complete Reference" display but not the "Full text" display of the result list.
 At  OCLC Firstsearch Electronic Collections Online

Many Firstsearch databases contain full-text articles. Use the 'Link Pickup' option to produce a stable article link.

  1. Locate your full-text article.
  2. Click on "View PDF Full Text (ECO)" icon.
  3. The article will display on the screen and in the upper-right corner you will see the "Link Pickup" (¥[¥H³sµ²) option, which produces a stable URL that can be embedded into web links or sent as email. For example, the URL of the article Hong Kong, Singapore and the East Asian Crisis: How Important were Trade Spillovers? (The World Economy, ISSN: 0378-5920, v.25, n.4, p.503, 2002) is http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP?sici=0378-5920%2820020401%2925%3A4%3C503%3AHKSATE%3E&dbname=ECO_FT
At ProQuest:
  1. The syntax of the persistent URL of articles is : http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/cgi-bin/pqarticles.cgi?Did=xxx
  2. Substitute xxx with the Did number of the article.
    To obtain the Did number, you have to search the article at ProQuest. At the Results List (list of article titles & sources), move the cursor on the article title and the article's specific URL will be displayed at the status bar at the bottom of the screen. The Did number is the number between Did= and &Fmt. Do not use the URL displayed at the status bar as the persistent URL of the article. Only get the Did number and insert the number after http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/cgi-bin/pqarticles.cgi?Did= to form the persistent URL of the article.
  3. For example: http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/cgi-bin/pqarticles.cgi?Did=000000052768452 is the persistent URL of the article Global viewpoint: an economic tour de force (Chief Executive 154 p.20-23).
 At  ScienceDirect:
  1. Navigate to the journal you want to link to.
  2. Find the article you want to create a link to, then click the link SummaryPlus or Full Text+Links
  3. On the top left hand corner on every article on ScienceDirect, you will see a doi link as follows:
    doi:10.1016/S0262-8856(03)00094-5
  4. Copy the number after doi, and paste it after the following syntax:
    http://dx.doi.org/
  5. For example:
    Nunes, J,C., Y. Bouaoune, E. Delechelle, O. Niang and Ph. Bunel. "Image analysis by bidimensional empirical mode decomposition." Image and Vision Computing, 21(2), p.1019-1026.
    The URL of this article is http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0262-8856(03)00094-5
For further enquiries, please contact library staff at 2609 8740 or email to Reserve Books and Special Collections Department.