How to Create Full-Text Links to Tufts Library
Licensed Material
- To ensure that the Tufts community can access articles both on- and off-campus, it is necessary to construct a url that first goes to the libraries' proxy server where the Tufts UTLN/password are entered enabling authentication and login to the licensed resource.
- Below are instructions for creating full-text links to both journal articles and books from some of the Tufts Libraries licensed resources.
- For i nstructions for full-text links to additional licensed resources see Tisch Library's How to Link to Articles in Library Databases
- For help, call the HHSL InfoCirc Desk (617-636-6705) or email hhsl@tufts.edu.
Blackwell Synergy
The url created using the instructions below opens a webpage that contains the link to the fulltext pdf below the abstract.
BMJ Clinical Evidence
DynaMed
Gale - InfoTrac
Ingenta
- Begin with: http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=
- You will need the ISSN, volume, issue, beginning and ending pages
- Example of Ingenta pattern:
- http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=1475-2662&volume=81&issue=3&spage=181&epage=189
- Example of completed URL:
- http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=1475-2662&volume=81&issue=3&spage=181&epage=189
JSTOR
MDConsult - Books
Ovid Full-Text Journal Articles
- Begin with: http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=ovid&ISSUE=
- Paste Ovid's Accession Number for the article after ISSUE=
- To locate the AN number
- For articles available as pdf files, search Your Journals@Ovid database for the title. Click the Complete Reference link which includes the AN number.
- For articles available in html, click Ovid Full Text; the AN number is located at the end of the page/article.
- Note: the AN number is NOT the Unique Identifier.
- Example of final url: http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=ovid&ISSUE=00005407-199901270-0003
Ovid EBM Databases
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
ACP Journal Club
DARE
- TUSK URLs for Full-Text
- Search for the review
- Display the full text
- Locate the Accession Number on the right hand side above the pdf link
- Enter the AN in TUSK's Link to URL utility
- Non-TUSK links
- Search for the review
- Display the full text
- Click on Email Jumpstart
- Copy URL and use as full-text link
Ovid Books & Chapters
- Books
- Linking to the beginning of a book
- Search the Tufts Online Catalog for the book by title
- Copy the Electronic Access URL from "http://" on
- Examples:
- http://ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/login?url=http://www.xreferplus.com/vol/283
- http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=OVIDharrisons
- Chapters in books:
- Locate chapter
- Click Email Jumpstart at top of page
- Copy URL and use as full-text link
PubMed MEDLINE
- For freely available articles these instructions can generally be used:
- Click on Links, right hand side of citation, and then click Link Out
- Follow the full-text link, and then the pdf link if available
- Copy URL and use as full-text link
- In cases where there is no direct link to the full-text, create a link to the citation screen where the full-text link can be accessed.
- Search for the article and from the Summary display click the author link
- Copy this url
STAT!Ref
Linking to Chapters (Links are available to chapter sections but not to individual pages.)
- Begin with: http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=
- Locate the chapter by browsing the book's TOC on the lefthand display
(do not use the search mechanism). The chapter will be displayed in the
right hand frame.
- To be sure you have the correct url, right click in the right hand frame
(only Mozilla Firefox has this feature) and select This Frame > Open Frame
in New Window.
- From this complete url: http://online.statref.com/Document.aspx?DocId=689&FxId=1&SessionId=485B59NGBJMHLYAR&Scroll=1&Index
Linking to Beginning of a Book
ScienceDirect
- Begin with: http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=http://dx.doi.org/
- Locate and append the doi number. See area above the abstract.
- Example: http://www.library.tufts.edu/ezproxy/ezproxy.asp?LOCATION=http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/aima.2001.2039
Springer/Synergy
The url created using the instructions below opens a webpage that contains the link to the pdf on righthand side.
Wiley Interscience
The url created using the instructions below opens a webpage that contains the link to the pdf.
Last Updated: 11/08 ECM