Check to see if you can log on to our databases off campus.
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Databases
Did you know that COM Library you has over 40 online databases? Did
you know you can access them from your office? COM Library has arranged
them into 14 different subject categories: Databases.
eBooks
Read eBooks, electronic versions of printed books. This page combines free
eBooks to those that COM Library subscribes to. We have access to thousands
of books through NetLibrary: eBooks.
Guides
COM library publishes a number of guides that may help your students, including
one for Distance Ed students. If you don't see one
that suits your class we can make you
one!: Guides.
The EZProxy Prefix
In order to provide access to our proprietary databases off
campus, COM Library uses a proxy server. Anyone attempting to access
a database
off
campus has to be authenticated as a legal user of the database by logging
in. The library's proxy server keeps a list of all our database URLs
as well as a list of our patrons. Once the database URL is in on the
EZ Proxy list, one
can
prompt for a login by including the EZProxy prefix in front of the normal
database or database resource URL. In this way, users that are off campus
gain access to our databases. The proxy server is told to ignore the
prefix on campus, so on campus users do not have to log in.
Example
EZ Proxy Prefix = https://ezproxy.com.edu/login?url=
Main EBSCO URL = http://search.ebscohost.com/
Place the EZ Proxy orefix in front to the EBSCO URL to create the new
URL for accessing the the resource off campus:
Static and Dynamic URLS
The EZProxy prefix only works with
static URLs. Most URLs in a database search are dynamic, and docuements
retrieved through a search
also have dynamic URLs. The URL will for the same document may change
from serach to search. Dynamic URLs are likely to contain the following
within the URL: ?, &,
%, +, =, $, cgi-bin, .cgi.
Brtiannica
After performing a search to retrieve a resource, simply combine the EZProxy
prefix with the resource URL.
Specific Journals
Link to specific journals by going to the journal
list and clicking on the title of the desired journal. Click on URL
for this Page and the URL will appear in a pop-up window.
Specific Articles
Once you've performed a search in LION, click on teh artile to which you'd like to link, then click on Durable URL for this text. A pop window provides teh durable URL, which you can combine with the EZProxy prefix.
Find desired report by browsing or searching. After
report loads in pop-up window click on CiteNow! at the top of the article. This citation contains a durebale URL that you can copy and which you may now combine with the EZProxy prefix.
EBSCO
Link to specific EBSCO articles, journals or searches.
Link to Specific Articles
If you want to create a link through which users off campus as well as on campus
can access a specific article, EBSCO has provided an easy way to
do so. Access the URL of an article by clicking on its title on your result list, or
the citation icon that comes up with the full text. ThE URL is near
the end of the citation, highlighted in yellow in the image below, labeled Persistent link to this record (Permalink):
Link to Specific EBSCO Journals
Within the same same citation information used for specific
articles, you can click on the title of the journal, labeled Source (see
image above) to see the persistant link to your journal. Journals accessed
in this way may be browsed by year.
Link to Searches
If you are going to link to a search, it's best to get it as
precise as possible first. Once you have your search the way you want it, simply click the Alert/Save/Share option at the top of your resutl list to get the Permalink, as highlighted in yellow in the image below. Notice from these options, you can also create an alert, add to your folder, or create an RSS feed to add to your news reader. That way when new articles show up, you know rigth away and get direct links to them.
Facts on File
Link to articles, historic documents, interviews, images (diagrams, graphs,
illustrations, maps, photos), news stories back to 1940 and special
features.
As in EBSCO, the NetLibrary eBook URLs that are displayed in the address
bar of your browser are dynamic and can't be used for linking. To
create a static link, use the URL below, plus the book ID:
From Oxford's home page, select the relevant subject from the Subject
Reference list. Click on the desired resource. At the top of the page
are some links, one of which is Book home page. Click on this
and copy the URL from the address bar and combine with the EZProxy prefix.
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