To stay competitive with peer institutions and build high-quality library collections, Tulane University Library spends millions of dollars annually on subscription licenses for digital resources. As a result, Tulane's students and faculty have access through its main library to a vast array of published scholarly material including articles available online from about 64,000 journal titles.
Locating articles: You can locate articles with licensed access via the Tulane campus network the Library Search box on the library home page, any of the hundreds of databases available from the library Databases list, or using more generic tools like Google Scholar.
Links to articles from the Library Search box may be especially useful for course reading lists since they do not require a proxy server prefix to be added to the article's Permalink URL.
Linking from the Library Search box on the library home page. Library Search has records with links to full text in other databases or journal subscription packages. You can link to the record which in turn will link students to the full text. You can also provide a link to a book or document so your students can find the call number or bibliographic information easily.
Copy and paste the resulting Permalink that is displayed (see below) into the course document you intend to provide through Canvas. You do not need to add any proxy information if you use the Permalink feature of the Library Search box on the library home page.
Otherwise, to link directly to an article on a licensed publisher platform accessible via the library you will want to add the proxy server URL prefix described earlier in this guide to the article's persistent link on this platform. An example would be creating a useable link directly to an article on the platform of a publisher such as JSTOR, Project Muse, ScienceDirect, EBSCOhost, and the like. In JSTOR, persistent links are called stable URLs. On other platforms, persistent links are often called Permalinks or DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers).
For example, locate an article in JSTOR. At the top, you will see a citation and an image of the journal. To the right there is a link called Article Stable URL. Copy the URL.
Now you can create an external link in Canvas.
The library's new OpenAthens authentication system offers a tool to generate a proxied link for off-campus access from permalinks or stable URLs:
