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Durable Links to Electronic Resources: Links to Online Articles

This guide shows you how to make durable links to electronic resources the Library subscribes to. You can put the links on your course websites.

Use DOI

The Digital Object Identifers (DOI) are to identify contents and objects in the online environment. These electronic resources allows linking to individual online articles using DOI:

  • ACM Portal to Computing Literature
  • Blackwell Reference Online
  • Cambridge Journals Online
  • IEEEXplore
  • IngentaConnect
  • IOS Press
  • Oxford Journals
  • ScienceDirect
  • SpringerLink
  • Wiley Online Library

 For electronic resources not listed above, try building links via EZProxy.


DOI Scripts

By using DOI scripts, you can create links to online articles. Use this beginning script:

https://library.hkust.edu.hk/cgi/db/doi.pl? 

  1. Find the DOI of the journal article. Examples:
    • 10.1145/32439.32441
    • 10.1016/j.hysletb.2007.10.053
    • 10.1002/pa.280
    • 10.1017/S0144686X07006605
    • 10.1111/b.9780631211617.2004.x
  2. Append the DOI to the script to form the durable link,
    e.g., https://library.hkust.edu.hk/cgi/db/doi.pl?10.1109/LPT.2014.2315492

 

EBSCOhost & ProQuest

For EBSCOhost & ProQuest,  use a different syntax.

EBSCOhost Research Databases

 Beginning script: https://ezproxy.hkust.edu.hk/login?url=

  1. Go to the article record and find "Permalink" on the right hand column
  2. You will see a link like this,
    http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=88923800
  3. Append them to the script

          e.g., https://ezproxy.hkust.edu.hk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=88923800

 
ProQuest
Beginning script:  https://library.hkust.edu.hk/cgi/db/pqd-article.pl?
  1. Scroll to the end of the article and locate the .ProQuest Document ID
  2. Append the ProQuest Document ID to the script,
    e.g., https://library.hkust.edu.hk/cgi/db/pqd-article.pl?31019817
 
 

Factiva

Beginning script for Factiva: https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/bib/991004767649703412?

1. Find the Document ID found in the bottom left corner of the document

 

2. Append it to the script:   

https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/bib/991004767649703412?ASBASC0020141210eacv0000j

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