Linking to Full-Text in a Health Sciences Syllabus or Blackboard Course
This page includes information regarding building stable Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to connect to online articles in your online syllabus or Blackboard course. In general you should be aware that:
- In many cases, a single typo will invalidate your URL.
- Except for the "see above" links, ALL of the links from this page open a new browser window.
Cochrane Library
- Connect to the Cochrane Library VCU, a database of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare.
- Find the article or systematic review of interest.
- Copy the URL displayed by the browser when viewing the html article.
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Anticoagulants for acute ischaemic stroke.
- Please note that you may also link to a specific search of the Cochrane Library by copying the URL from the search results screen and then substituting the beginning of the URL as above.
InfoTrac (or Health and Wellness Resource Center)
- Connect to Academic OneFile VCU (or specific subset of InfoTrac) and find the desired article.
- Copy the URL displayed by the browser when viewing the html article.
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Do Different Dimensions of the Metabolic Syndrome Change Together Over Time?
Journals @ Ovid
- Connect to the Journals @ Ovid VCU and find the desired article.
- Click on the Complete Reference for the article.
- Copy the accession number from the beginning of the citation. This is the field that looks like:
Accession Number: 0000xxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxx
Note: There is a period following the Accession Number. Do not copy the period. - Add the accession number to the generic Journals@Ovid URL following AN=:
http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=
JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=fulltext&D=ovft&AN=&NEWS=N - Example: Fungal Infection in the Lung Transplant Recipient
MDConsult
- Connect to MD Consult VCU and find the desired article.
- Highlight and copy the Bookmark URL text at the end of the article/document. It will look something like this -
/das/guideline/view/14384546/N/10439482?ja=126259&PAGE=1.html&ANCHOR=top&source=MI/das/
journal/view/N/10046989?source=HS,MI - Add this copied text to the following URL base:
http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=http://home.mdconsult.com/start_session?autologin=true&user=
vcommonwealth&password=libraries&targeturl= - The final stable URL will look like this:
http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=http://home.mdconsult.com/start_session?autologin=true&user=
vcommonwealth&password=libraries&targeturl= /das/guideline/view/14384546/N/10439482?ja=126259&PAGE=1.html&ANCHOR=top&source=MI/das
/journal/view/N/10046989?source=HS,MI - Example: Acupuncture: NIH Consensus Statement (Practice Guideline)
link to a specific part of a database
MICROMEDEX
- Connect to MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series Intranet Application VCU
- Search or locate your point of interest in the full text drug system.
- Copy and paste the URL from the browser window. Add this copied text to the following URL base:
http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url= - You will need to check these links quarterly as the database is updated 4 times per year.
- Example: CIPROFLOXACIN - Patient Instructions - Drugdex Drug Evaluations
Using the VCU Libraries graphic link
- Connect to PubMed® VCU and find the VCU Libraries Link to the desired article. You must change the summary display format in PubMed to "abstract" or "citation" to see the links to VCU Libraries full-text.
- You must see the VCU Libraries graphic in the "abstract" or "citation" view to be able to link to the full text.
- Using your mouse, right click on the VCU Libraries graphic and select "copy link location" from the fly out menu
- Paste the text as a link in your web document.
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Bioterrorism: vaccines for biodefense: a system in distress
Next
- Once you have connected to the specific article of interest you may wish to provide a link to the PDF version from the publisher rather than going through PubMed
- Display the PDF version of the article and copy the URL from the browser window.
- Paste the link in your web document
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Vaccines for Biodefense: A System in Distress
Linking to a PubMed Search Strategy
- Connect to PubMed and construct your search using the PubMed MeSH browser or the PubMed search interface
- Click on "Details" to reveal the actual PubMed search strategy.
- On the "Details" page, locate the URL button. Clicking this button will return you to the results screen with a URL in the browser that can be copied or bookmarked.
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: ("Gastroesophageal Reflux/prevention and control"[MAJR] OR "Gastroesophageal Reflux/rehabilitation"[MAJR]) OR "Gastroesophageal Reflux/therapy"[MAJR]) AND ("treatment outcome"[MESH] OR "Guidelines"[MeSH Terms]).
link directly to publishers' web sites
- American Chemical Society
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Pivotal Role of Water in the Mechanism of P450BM-3 or (PDF version)
- American Institute of Physics
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- American Psychological Association (see above - Journals @ Ovid)
- Annual Reviews
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Mass Spectrometry As A Tool For Protein Crystallography or (PDF version)
- Cambridge University Press
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Cell Press
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: ATP Requirements and Small Interfering RNA Structure in the RNA Interference Pathway
- Elsevier or Science Direct
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Postoperative ectopic atrial tachycardia in children with congenital heart disease or (PDF version)
- Government Sources
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- HighWire
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Testosterone dose-response relationships in healthy young men
- Ingenta
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Radiation-induced DNA Damage and Chromatin Structure (PDF version)
- JSTOR
- Find the article of interest
- Choosing "view article" lets you see a image version of the article
- Choosing the download option gives you links to a "High Quality" PDF or a "Economy Quality PDF
- Example: Tom Sawyer Meets Insects: How Biodiversity Opens Science to the Public (image version) (high quality PDF) (economy PDF )
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (see above - Journals @ Ovid)
- MD Consult (see above - MD Consult)
- Oxford University Press
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: An analysis of gene-finding programs for Neurospora crassa (PDF print version) or (PDF screen version)
- PsycARTICLES (see above - Journals @ Ovid)
- Project Muse
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Insurance against Germ Theory: Commerce and Conservatism in Late-Victorian Medicine or (PDF version)
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Natural products to drugs: natural product derived compounds in clinical trials (PDF version)
- Science Direct (see above - Elsevier)
- Springer-Verlag
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Brachial-jugular Expanded PTFE Grafts for Dialysis
- University of Chicago Press
- This one only seems to work from ON campus NOT through the VCU Libraries proxy
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: Infectious Disease Consultation and Microbiologic Surveillance for Intensive Care Unit Trauma Patients: A Pilot Study or (PDF version)
- Walter de Gruyter
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Example: J. Perinat. Med. Right ventricular function in the human fetus (PDF version)
- Wiley Interscience
- Connect to the article of interest and copy the URL from the browser window or from the active link
- Add the following to the beginning of the web address without any spaces - http://proxy.library.vcu.edu/login?url=
- Dow Jones Publications Library
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- GenderWatch
- InfoTrac (all files)
- Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
- University of Chicago Press