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Blackboard Readings

You have two options:

        • Upload the reading to Blackboard
        • Link to the reading from Blackboard

Upload the Reading to Blackboard

Important: This option should only be used if you are using the article under the spontaneous use clause of Fair Use. If you plan to use this article and this method for more than one semester, you should obtain copyright permission.

If you have a print copy of the article (not an electronic file):

  • scan it
  • save it
  • post it to Blackboard

For assistance with this, contact your program assistant.

If the article is full text online and does not have a stable url:

  • Copy the article using your favorite method (e.g. right click on article and choose Select All, then right-click again and choose Copy. Exact procedure may vary a bit depending on database properties, especially if the document is a .pdf file).
  • Paste it into Blackboard:
      • Go to: your course
      • Go to: Control Panel
      • Go to: Content Areas: Documents
      • Go to: choose Add Item
      • Paste text (crtl-v) in Text box

Link to the Reading from Blackboard:

 

The Hamline libraries subscribe to a growing number of quality full text databases, from Ebsco's Academic Search Premier to Education Full Text.  If there is a full text database article or netLibrary e-book that you would like your students to read, you can provide one-click access from Blackboard to the reading.  Note:  Linking does not require copyright permission.

1.  Before you can do this, you need to answer two questions:

Is this article online?
Not all journals/articles--or even nearly all--are online. First, the publisher must be willing to provide the full text of their articles to database providers. Then, we must have a subscription to that database. For more information, see:  Is This Journal Online?

Does it have a stable url?
In order to link to an article, it must have a stable url (sometimes called a persistent or durable link):  a specific address on the web. Some databases don't have permanent "homes" on the web for their articles; a temporary "location" is created during your search. Unfortunately, this includes databases such as Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.  If this is the case, see Upload the Reading to Blackboard.  See below for instructions for specific Bush Library databases.

2.  Very Important:  Proxy URL
Many of our students are off-campus and will be accessing our licensed databases via Hamline's proxy server.  See The Hamline University Libraries Proxy Server for more information.  Each link to a licensed article or e-book must be preceded by Hamline's Proxy Server URL:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

 

3.  Database-by-Database Instructions. 
Unfortunately, every database is constructed a little differently.  Following are instructions on providing readings from each of Bush Library's full text databases. 

Bush Library databases, Subject List (includes database descriptions and links)

Bush Library databases, Title List (includes database descriptions and links)

Law Library databases

Academic
OneFile

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

 2.  Add the stable url of the article.  To find this, click on Bookmark This Document, in green font, under the title of the article.

 

 

Academic Search Premier

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation under Persistent Link to this Record. 

Example: http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&an=15403045




 

 

ACS Web Editions and Archive

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), Locate the number/letter sequence following the acronym DOI. The DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

  • In Blackboard, type Hamline's proxy server address:
    http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=
  • Then, add: 

    http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=

  • Finally, paste your article's DOI at the end. 

        Example: http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/ja028495a

 

 

 

 

Annual Reviews

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Copy and past the web page url ("address") of the article from your browser.

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://arjournals.annualreviews.org
/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.soc.29.110702.110112

Alternative:  Academic Search Premier contains the full text of all but the current issue of most Review titles. This is good news because we occasionally have problems with off-campus access through the Annual Reviews database--Academic Search Premier is more straightforward.

 

 


Anthro-Source

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Copy and past the web page url ("address") of the article from your browser.

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/pdf/10.1525/cag.2002.24.2.52

 

 

Business Source Premier

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation under Persistent Link to this Record. 

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&an=7333763

 

 

CIAO
(Columbia International Affairs Online)

The documents in CIAO may be either .html or .pdf format, depending on the source and the search method you used to find it (browse or keyword search). If your document's url ends in .html, it should be ok to copy and paste to our proxy url. If it is a .pdf document, you may need to hover over the link to see the url in your status bar, then type the url into your document (copy and paste won't work with this method).

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.ciaonet.org/pbei/bi/joc01/joc01.pdf

 

 

Communi-cation and Mass Media Complete

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation under Persistent Link to this Record. 

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&an=16947321

 

 

 

 

Communi-cation Studies
(Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?sername=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sagecom-set-c&doi=10.1177/0957926506063127

 

 

 

 

 

Criminology (Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sagecrim-set-c&doi=10.1177/1741659006065404

E-books see Gale Virtual Reference Library, netLibrary and Oxford Reference Online

 

 

 

EBSCO MegaFile

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation under Persistent Link to this Record. 

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=keh&an=12153208

 

 

 

 

 

Education (Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sageduc-set-c&doi=10.1177/0013124506289030

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education
Full Text

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2.  Add the stable url of the article, which is at the bottom of the citation, under Article Link. 

You may link to either the .html or .pdf version of the article--plain .html usually loads more quickly, especially for those accessing it from off-campus-- although the .pdf version may have tables or other graphics that the .html version does not.

a.)  Click on Click to copy the HTML [or PDF] full text article link. 

b.)  A message box will open that says "URL copied to clipboard."

c.)  Click on OK.  This "loads" the url onto your mouse, i.e. when you give the Paste command, whether from the toolbar or by right-clicking your mouse, the url will appear.

d.)  Go to your Blackboard course and paste the url immediately following the proxy url (that you already pasted there).

e.)  This url is more than you need!  Next, you need to remove the superfluous html code and strip it down to just the url by removing everything outside of the quotation marks (including the quotes themselves):

For example, if you paste this: 

<a href="http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e52524b6a7a73d197b0614517d8a07
39f493aef310ed4c1b46ce0566b77ffdbea&fmt=H">McArdle, T. Multimedia as a presentation tool. Media & Methods v. 32 (November/December 1995) p. 78</a>

Delete the text in gold, so that what remains is the url without the html code (you don't need it in Blackboard): 

http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e52524b6a7a73d197b0614517d8a07
39f493aef310ed4c1b46ce0566b77ffdbea&fmt=H

Example of the complete link, including proxy url:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e52524b6a7a73d197b0614517d
8a0739f493aef310ed4c1b46ce0566b77ffdbea&fmt=H

 

 

 

 

ERIC

ERIC: The citations reside in CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), but the full text ERIC documents reside on the Department of Education's new ERIC website. When you click on Full Text Linking, a .pdf document opens, but you will not be able to see the url. The easiest thing to do is:

  • Copy the ERIC document number ("Accession number") with your mouse
  • In a new window, go to the Dept. of Education's ERIC website: http://www.eric.ed.gov
  • Paste the ERIC document number into the Search box
  • Click on Search
  • This should take you directly to the document you need. Copy the page url from the Address box to use for your link from Blackboard.
  • You do not need to add the proxy server address because it's a free web site.

 

 

 

Ethnic NewsWatch

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation as Document url. 

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=755639691&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=44376&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Expanded Academic ASAP

9/14/07: We no longer subscribe to this database; we have switched over to a more comprehensive version of the same database, Academic OneFile.  OneFile contains virtually everything in Expanded Academic, plus additional journals. 

If you have a link you created to an article in Expanded Academic, you will need to change the link to OneFile.  Simply search for the article in OneFile and follow the instructions (above, under Academic OneFile) to create the link.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

To link to a specific book:

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2.  From the web page of the book you want, look for the InfoMark in the upper left corner of the page  Link to this article and click on it.  It will open another window with 3 links.  The first link is the url of the article.  Copy it and paste it to the proxy server address.

 

 

Gender-Watch

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation as Document url. 

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=494986611&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=44376&RQT=309&VName=PQD









Health Sciences
(Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sagenurs-set-c&doi=10.1177/1359105306066643

 

 

 

JSTOR

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation as Stable url.

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-
2303%282000%292000%3A2%3C1%3ASSRANS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5

LexisNexis Academic Universe

Requires more steps than most databases.  For details, refer to the document, LexisNexis Academic URL API Specifications.

Or, see Upload the Article to Blackboard.

 

 

Literature Resource Center

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2.  Check to see whether there is an "infomark" Link to this articleat the top of the page that contains the full text of the article.  If it's there, it means that the url in your browser's "address" bar is stable/durable/persistent, i.e. you can use that url to link to your article.

3.  Copy and past the web page url ("address") of the article from your browser.

Example:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?http://galenet.galegroup.com/
servlet/LitRC?YBE=A.D.&locID=
mnahamline&srchtp=advathr&c=2&ai=U13019114&docNum=H
1200009423&bConts=16047&vrsn=3&OP=starts&YDE=A.D.&DYQ
=is&ca=39&ste=6&ZG=%22Detective+fiction%22&BYQ=is&tab=1&tbst=arp&n=10&GD=any

 

 

 

 

Management and Organization
(Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sageman-set-c&doi=10.1177/1059601104273066

 

 

 

 

MasterFile Premier

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation under Persistent Link to this Record. 

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&an=6746825

 

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&an=15403045

 

 

 

 

Materials Science
(Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sagemat-set-c&doi=10.1177/1045389X06055767

 

 

 

 

 

netLibrary (e-books)

  

To create the link, you need three elements:

  • Hamline's proxy server address: 
    http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=
  • The database url:

    http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=


  • The Product ID number.

To find the Product ID number, go to netLibrary, then to the book you want. Open it. You will see two rows of red tabs on the left; click on eContent Details. This is the citation. The Product ID number is listed right after the publication info.

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.netlibrary.com/
urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=68669

 

 

New York Times
(Proquest Historical Newspapers)

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation as Document url. 

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=385632861&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=44376&RQT=309&VName=HNP

 

 

 

Oxford Reference Online 

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Copy and past the web page url ("address") of the article from your browser.

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?entry=t121.e0789

 

 

 

 

Political Science
(Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example:

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sagepol-set-c&doi=10.1177/0095399706290638

 

 

 

Professional Collection

  

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

 2.  Add the stable url of the article.  To find this, click on Bookmark This Document, in green font, under the title of the article.

 

 

 

Project Muse

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Copy and past the web page url ("address") of the article from your browser.

You may link to either the .html or .pdf version of the article (plain .html usually loads more quickly, especially for those accessing it from off-campus).

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/advertising_and_society_review/v001/
1.1fields.html

 

 

 

ProQuest Newspapers

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation as Document url. 

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=755639691&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=44376=309&VName=PQD

 

 

 

 

Psyc-ARTICLES

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example: 
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=psycarticles-set-c&doi=10.1037/0021-9010.91.4.737

 

 

 

 

Psychology (Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sagepsyc-set-c&doi=10.1177/0022022106288479

 

 

Regional Business News

 

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Add the stable url of the article.  The url is listed in the citation under Persistent Link to this Record. 

Example: http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bwh&an=L5479547FACO

 

 

 

 

Sociology
(Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example:  http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sagesoc-set-c&doi=10.1177/0725513606066239

 

 

 

University of Chicago Press

1. Copy and paste Hamline's proxy server address: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=

2. Copy and past the web page url ("address") of the article from your browser.

Example:
http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/
journal/issues/v29n3/290304/290304.html

This takes you to a screen that makes it look like it's having second thoughts about letting you in. Simply click where it tells you to click.

 

 

 

 

Urban Studies and Planning
(Sage Full Text)

From the Results screen (the list of articles you got when you did your search), go to the citation for the article you want and click on View Record. Note the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)--this is a unique number for your article.

To link to your article:

Example: 

http://ezproxy.hamline.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/getfulltext.cgi?username=mtx6&access=mtx6006&mode=pdf&db=sageurb-set-c&doi=10.1177/1078087406290729

 

 

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