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Stable Links for Electronic Resources

This is a how-to guide for creating permanent, stable links to MSU-owned full-text articles from online journals, e-books, and streaming video or other media.

Creating Stable Links in EBSCO

Navigate to the year/volume/issue where your article is published.  When you locate your article in the contents list, click the three vertical dots on the right (opens the Tools menu) 

screenshot of an article on the contents list page with the three vertical dots in the upper right corner circled in red

and choose Share.  

screenshot of an article on the contents list page with the tools menu open and the word Share with a red box around it

In the new window that opens, click Create link

screenshot of the Share screen with a red arrow pointing to the Create Link option at the bottom

and then Copy to clipboard. 

screenshot of the Create Link menu open with a red box around the URL and a red arrow pointing to the text "Copy to clipboard" below the URL

Since this link already includes proxy1.cl.msu.edu, this is your stable link and can be pasted accordingly.  If this link did not include proxy1.cl.msu.edu, proxy2.cl.msu.edu, or http://ezproxy.msu.edu/login?url=, you would need to add http://ezproxy.msu.edu/login?url= to the front of the URL for it to work correctly

See Stable Links Tips & Tricks for troubleshooting suggestions if your stable link does not work as expected.