How To Create URL Links To Specific Articles, Cases or Statutes For Use In Blackboard

Faculty and library personnel may want to create links from Blackboard or other web pages to online resources to which students have access.  These resources may be to online journals (ejournals), subscription databases, Lexis & Westlaw, or free databases. 

If a resource has multiple URLs, it is recommended that you link to a pdf rather than a non-pdf version of a document.  Therefore, only link to Lexis or Westlaw as a last resort.

Another reason to favor non-Lexis/Westlaw links is because students  will be prompted to enter their Lexis and Westlaw IDs to get to a Lexis/Westlaw link.  This is not the case with other resources.  The only time students will be prompted for authentication when following non-Lexis/Westlaw links is when they are off NYU premises.  They will be prompted for their Netid and password.

For each resource you want to link to, you need to know the URL of the specific case, statute or article.  Follow the instructions below to ascertain the URL of the resource you wish to link to.

Ezproxy
You should also prepend the Ezproxy prefix URL to all links you create to fee-based resources (except for Lexis and Westlaw).  This prefix enables the NYU Proxy Server authentication prompt to pop up when the link is clicked, so that off campus users can authenticate themselves with their NetID and password and be able to use licensed resources off-campus.

The Ezproxy prefix URL is:

Baywood Journals
BE Press (Berkeley Electronic Press)
Blackwell Synergy
Business Source Premier
Cambridge Journals Online
EbscoHost
Haworth Press Journals
Hein Online
IngentaConnect
JSTOR
Kluwer Journals Online
Lexis
MetaPress
Oxford University Press
Project Muse
Proquest - includes
   • ABI/INFORM Dateline
   • ABI/INFORM Global
   • ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
   • National Newspapers (27)
   • Periodical Abstracts Library (PDF)
   • Periodical Abstracts Research II
   • ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodical Index  
   • ProQuest Research Library
Sage Journals Online
SpringerLink
Taylor & Francis
University of Chicago Online Journals
Westlaw

After you have ascertained or created a URL, and copied it, you need to create a link to that URL in your  Blackboard Course:

• Go to your Blackboard Course, then click on
   Control Panel
   External Links
   URL
• Enter the name of your link in the name box
• Paste the URL you have copied into the URL box
• Make sure the "Smart Text" box is checked
• Check "Yes" to make the External Link visible
• Check "Yes" if you want to launch the item in an external window
• Check "Yes" if you want to track the number of views
• Choose any date restrictions on the display of this item
• Submit it

For further instructions on creating the link in Blackboard, see the Blackboard FAQ.

Baywood Journals

Find your journal article by going to the Law Library's Ejournals Page at http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/ejournals.html and typing in the name of the journal - for example, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector.  Click to the volume and page of your article, then click on the title of the article. Click on "Linking Options" (see below).  Copy and paste the Open URL to create your link, making sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

BE Press (Berkeley Electronic Press)

The URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Blackwell-Synergy

When looking at the Table of Contents page for an article, click on either abstract or references. Combine http://dx.doi.org/ with the numbers and letters after the doi:

The URL for the article below is:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2004.00276x

Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Business Source Premier

When looking at the page which provides the article title, author, source, subjects, etc.,  the "persistent link to this article" is the URL which can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink. Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Cambridge Journals Online

The root  URL for a Cambridge Journals Online article is:

http://journals.cambridge.org/article_[pii]

[pii] is the unique identifier for a specific article.  You must browse your way to the article abstract, and pull the [pii] from the prefatory material before the title of the abstract.

For example, the link to 8 Legal Theory 185 is http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S1352325202082022

To create this link go to the Law Library's Journals Page at http://ur8xy7gf3p.search.serialssolutions.com/  Enter "Legal Theory" in the search box, and click on the link to Cambridge Journals Online, volume 8, issue 2.  Then click on the Abstract, NOT THE PDF, for your article.  The [pii] is the number beginning with the letter "S" in the illustration below.  Simply append this number, including the letter "S" to the end of the root URL to create your link. Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

EbscoHost

When reading a results list or an article on EbscoHost, the URL for the article is displayed on the page.  This URL can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.
Note: If the EbscoHost page states that "this journal is offered by EBSCOhost EJS as a remote title", hyperlinks may not be created to this resource.

Haworth Press Journals

When reading an article in a Haworth Press journal, the URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Hein Online

When reading an article on Hein Online, the URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

IngentaConnect

The recommended base URL for linking to a journal article on IngentaConnect is:

http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article…

You then need to specify the article required by adding metadata elements to the URL.  Ingenta recommends including the following elements as a minimum to obtain best results:

ISSN (&issn=)
Volume (&volume=)
Issue (&issue=)
Start page of article (&spage=)
End page of article (&epage=)

For example:

http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=1368-9800&volume=7&issue=4&spage=473&epage=474

Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Ingenta Select
 

Go to the Publications section of the Ingenta Select website

http://www.ingentaselect.com/nw=1/rpsv/cw/web/nw1/browse.htm

Click Subscriptions on the left side of the page, and click to the publication to which you want to create a link.  The Direct URL will be displayed, which can be copied to create your hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

JSTOR

Click on the link CITATION/STABLE URL at  the beginning of each JSTOR article.  This leads you to an "Article Citation" page, which provides a stable URL that can be copied to create your hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Kluwer Journals Online

While viewing the pdf of the article, the URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.
Note: If no address bar appears in the window containing the pdf,  click View, Show, Location Toolbar (Netscape) or  View, Toolbars, Address Bar to have the address bar appear.

Lexis

Note: Students will be prompted for a Lexis password before proceeding to the document.

URLs to Lexis documents  MAY NOT be copied and pasted from the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) of the page when you are viewing the document.  They are constructed using a template, into which you plug in the elements of a Lexsee command, for cases and articles, or a Lexstat command, for statutes, as follows:

1. Go to: http://web.lexis.com/intranet/

2. Select the "Research Links" tab in the top portion of the screen

3. Read the Introduction and then select the Step 1 tab

4. Under Step 1: Select a Research Link Type, select "Get a Document"

   • Select LEXSEE® if you are linking to a case, law review, IRS material, or Federal Register; or

   • Select LEXSTAT® - if you are linking to a statute or CFR section

5. Select the Step 2 tab

6. Under Step 2: Customize you Research Link:

   • Enter whatever you want the clickable text to read in the Specify the clickable text for this link: box  (perhaps the citation, article title, case name, etc.)

   • Enter the citation in the Citation box

7. Click the Step 3 tab

8. Under Step 3: Test Your Research Link, test the link to see if it works

9. Click the Step 4 tab

10. Under Step 4: Incorporate Your Research Link, click the Copy URL to Clipboard button
    You should see a URL that looks like this:
    http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?searchtype=lexsee&autosubmit=yes&search=34%20f.%20supp%2034&keytnum=3&keyenum=24534

DO NOT  prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

MetaPress

With the article abstract on the screen, before you open the pdf, click on Linking Options. 

You will be given a choice of 3 types of URLs.  Choose Open URL - To Link With the Print ISSN.

Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Oxford University Press

While viewing the pdf of the article, the URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Project Muse

While viewing the pdf or html version of the article, the URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

ProQuest

Including:

ABI-INFORM
Criminal Justice Periodical Index
Historical Newspapers
National Newspapers
Periodical Abstracts
Proquest Research Library

1. Click on the title of the article from a Proquest results page

2. The URL is displayed on the Documents Results page.

Make

3. The URL can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink, making sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to it.

Sage Journals Online

While viewing the pdf of the article, the URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

SpringerLink

When reading an article in a SpringerLink journal, the URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Taylor & Francis

Follow instructions for Metapress, above.

University of Chicago Online Journals

While viewing the pdf or html version of the article, the URL that displays in the location box (Netscape) or address box (Internet Explorer) can be copied and pasted into a hyperlink.  Make sure to prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

Westlaw

Note: Students will be prompted for a Westlaw password before proceeding to the document

1. Go to http://integrationsolutions.westlaw.com/customize/wizards/USDefault.wl

2.      Click the “to a document” link

3.      Enter the citation in the Citation box

4.      Enter the words “Link to document on Westlaw” in the Link Text box

5.      Click the Create Link button
You should see html code that looks like this:
<A HREF="http://www.westlaw.com/find/default.wl?cite=455fsupp43&FindType=F&ForceAction=Y&SV=Full&RS=ITK3.0&VR=1.0"> Link to Westlaw</A>

6.      Click the Select Box Contents button

7.      Copy selected text (Control-C is the Copy shortcut)

8.      Now you are ready to add the link to Blackboard. (see below for instructions on adding links to your blackboard page)

9.   Highlight only that portion of the text between the quotation marks, then click on Edit, Copy.

    10. Paste the URL into the application you are using to create your hyperlink. 

DO NOT prepend https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=  to the URL.

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What citation format do I use?

1. You can view the citation at the beginning the the case itself on Westlaw

2. Or, you can sign in to Westlaw at http://lawschool.westlaw.com, and
      - Click on Find
      - Click on Publications List
      - Key in the citation

and the correct format will be displayed.

 

 

After you have ascertained or created a URL, and copied it, you need to create a link to that URL in your  Blackboard Course:

• Go to your Blackboard Course, then click on
   Control Panel
   External Links
   URL
• Enter the name of your link in the name box
• Paste the URL you have copied into the URL box
• Make sure the "Smart Text" box is checked
• Check "Yes" to make the External Link visible
• Check "Yes" if you want to launch the item in an external window
• Check "Yes" if you want to track the number of views
• Choose any date restrictions on the display of this item
• Submit it