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Resources Toolbox: Journals & Articles

The Library provides access to tens of thousands of online journals through subscriptions to databases, journal collections, and individual titles. The Library's Find Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers page enables you to search or browse for titles or find titles by academic subject.

Use this page to find copy-and-paste HTML-formatted links for journal records, searches, and subject browsing, and for advice on linking directly to articles within journal-related Web sites and databases.

| Journal Title Searches | Journals by Subject | Sharing Article URLs

Online Journal Title Searches

Choose the type of journal search you want from the dropdown menu, enter your journal title or title words, and click Go! You will see copy-and-paste code for a simple link and a journal search box that you can incorporate into your online class or other Web pages.

    

Journal Search Tips:

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Browse for Journals by Subject

You can also browse for online journal titles arranged in hierarchical subject order based on the Library of Congress classification system. Select the subject from the dropdown menu-- the copy-and-paste HTML-formatted link will appear below. Click Go to test the link:

Highlight the link code below and press Ctrl-C to copy it:


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Articles in Databases and Journal Collections: Linking and Sharing URLs

Sharing urls to individual articles in licensed databases and journal collections can be a bit complicated. If you find several or more articles that you would like to share with students or colleagues, please consider using Cline Library's Electronic Reserves service to provide online access. See the Request Course Reserves form or call 928 523-9142 for more information.

If you decide to share article urls on your own, keep in mind that with many licensed article databases, you cannot simply find the article, then copy the url from your browser's address bar to share in a web page or e-mail message. Article urls in the browser address bar will often contain information that is specific to that particular browser session and the url will not work for anyone else.

Sharing Article Links: An Example from EBSCOhost

The library's EBSCOhost family of research databases (e.g., Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, etc.) offer a number of ways of saving and sharing links to articles and other specific content:

Illustration of EBSCOhost options for sharing article links - Email, Save, and Permalink

  1. Do not try to copy the article url from your browser's address bar and share it with others -- it has session-specific information, and will not work for anyone else.
  2. The entire text of EBSCOhost articles in HTML full text format can be emailed or saved to your computer.
  3. Click on "Permalink" and copy the article url from the pop-up box. By default, these links include NAU's libproxy string that will ensure any NAU user, regardless of whether they're connecting from on-campus or off, will be able to view the content. For example: http://libproxy.nau.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=56658930&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Article links or permalinks from other database services may not automatically include the libproxy string that enables off-campus access to NAU users. In such cases, prepend the libproxy string to the url before sharing it with your students or NAU colleagues:

This article url will only work for users connecting from the NAU network or running the NAU VPN (no libproxy string at the beginning):
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=56658930&site=ehost-live&scope=site

This article url will work for any NAU user, on campus or off:
http://libproxy.nau.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=56658930&site=ehost-live&scope=site

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