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What should I do if I have any problems?
You can still continue to create stable links to journal articles using the
methods described below. Both methods will work independently of each
other.
Which e-journals use DOIs and which do not?
An increasing number of electronic journals are using DOIs, including
titles available on Swetswise, Ingenta and Science Direct. However, it
depends on the journal publisher not just the e-journal provider, so you
will need to check for each journal article you wish to link to.
Titles available through the following services do not include DOIs, so
please consult the information about creating stable links to these titles:
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JSTOR;
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Westlaw.
Can I retrieve a DOI using a journal reference?
DOIs can be retrieved from CrossRef’s DOI lookup system, which
permits registered libraries to submit batch requests. Individual requests
can also be submitted using CrossRef’s web form (http://www.crossref
.org/02publishers/37guest_query.html). In order to retrieve a DOI you
will need to supply the journal title, author’s name or start page of the
article. CrossRef recommend using the journal title instead of the ISSN.
A list of journal titles in the CrossRef holdings is available in a browsable
format on the web page. By entering the bibliographic details into the
web form you can retrieve a DOI for the articles. The interface is not
intended for automated querying and if you need to query CrossRef on
an automated batch basis, you will need to obtain an account on the
system. There is no charge for libraries to set up a CrossRef account to
retrieve DOIs or metadata. For more information see the CrossRef
Libraries web page (http://www.crossref.org/03libraries/index.html).
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Linking to e-journal examples
The method for linking to electronic journals depends on which
aggregator or publisher delivers it, although many are now using
OpenURL or DOIs. Several libraries maintain up-to-date listings of the
linking method used by a range of electronic journal providers, for
example the listing by the London School of Economics.
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Below is a
selection of examples from some of the major electronic journal services.
Electronic collections online provided by OCLC
FirstSearch
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) offers web access to an increasing
range of electronic journals from over 70 publishers. Access to the titles
is via OCLC’s FirstSearch (http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/) which links
through to full-text articles, where these are available. Linking to journal
title, journal table of contents and also article level is possible through
this service. However, note that these instructions will work only if you
are viewing a page that has full text. Also note that the links will only
work within your institutional network as they are IP authenticated. To
link to an article:
1. View the full text of desired article.
2. Click link pickup icon located in the top right-hand corner of the
screen.
3. Select and copy the URL that appears below the text ‘IP-address
recognition URL for direct article access’.
4. Paste as needed into your course website or online bibliography.
More help and support with ‘Direct Article Access’ is available from the
OCLC website (http://www.oclc.org/).
Ingenta journals 
Ingenta (http://www.ingenta.com) has an ever-growing collection of
journal material, including over 16 million articles from more than
28,000 titles. Your institution is likely to subscribe to a proportion of
these titles and numerous deals are available. It is possible to link to
journal titles and articles on Ingenta using the OpenURL standard to
generate a stable URL. Authorised use of Ingenta includes:
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bookmarking an article to e-mail the URL to colleagues;
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making specific articles available to users from your website;
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creating a direct link to a publication.
To create a link to a publication, you can use Ingenta EasyLink
bookmarks, or copy and paste the title of the publication from the list of
title URLs. To create a direct link to an article note:
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Ingenta uses the OpenURL standard for linking to articles. These
URLs are based on the OpenURL standard and will not change;
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an OpenURL takes the following form:
http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article ….
To create a link to a specific article, the URL must contain the following
fields:
ISSN (international standard serial number)
Volume
Issue
Page number of first page of the article (spage)
An article can therefore be specified by its bibliographic data, as follows:
Issn=0960-2585
Volume=9
Issue=2
Spage=111
The OpenURL uses a standard formula and the link to the above
publication will look as follows:
http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=0960-
2585&volume=9&issue=2&spage=111
Detailed information is available from the Ingenta website and your
representative can also advise further about this method.
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JSTOR 
JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/) has numerous electronic journal
collections available including titles in the Arts and Sciences. All articles
available from JSTOR provide full text. Stable URLs, which differ from
the URLs that display when you are viewing an article, are available for
all articles. They are provided on search results screens, tables of
contents screens and citation screens. Or you can obtain a stable URL
when you are viewing an article by following the steps below:
1. View any page of the full text of the desired article.
2. Click on the citation/stable URL link near the top or the bottom of the
page.
3. Select the URL and copy and paste as needed.
4. Optional – at the end of the URL you add ‘origin=YOUR
INSTITUTION’ (for example ‘origin=LSE’ for the London School of
Economics). This provides an identifier for JSTOR staff, which they
use if they need to locate problematic links. It shouldn’t affect the way
the links work.
JSTOR has adopted the Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI)
standard as an article-level identifier. SICI is an ANSI/NISO standard
that was developed to uniquely identify serial items, typically issues, and
their contributions, typically articles. This is discussed in more detail in
Chapter 5.
JSTOR has also developed the Citation Linking Tool to automate the
creation of stable URLs based on the citation information you submit via
an online form. The resultant URLs may be cut and pasted into your
web-based teaching materials
Swetswise
Swetswise (https://www.swetswise.com/) is another large e-journal
aggregator, with over 8,000 titles available from more than 300
publishers. Swetswise use a multi-level linking algorithm based on
OpenURL to generate stable links to their material. Similar to Ingenta,
URLs are defined by ISSN, volume, issue and page number. The
authentication of requests for articles is currently done by IP recognition,
although the journals can be accessed using an Athens authentication.
However, links to journal or article level will only work on your
institutional network.
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Linking typically uses title information and can be done at three
different levels:
1. Journal level – only the journal name is linked to and Swetswise will
reveal the list of issues available with links to TOCs, abstract and full
text.
2. Issue level – available issues can be linked to and Swetswise will reveal
the TOC with links to abstract and full text.
3. Article level – here Swetswise would link directly to the article’s
abstract or the full text.
The URL structure is as follows:
http://www.swetswise.com/link/access_db?issn=&vol=&iss=&part=
&page=&year=
In the example above, the following tags should be completed with the
following bibliographic details:
Issn=ISSN number (with or without hyphen)
Vol=Volume number
Iss=Issue number