Electronic Resources in the Virtual Learning

Part=Part type – e.g. ‘SUPPL’ in case of supplement (optional)
Page=start page number
Year=Publication year
To link directly into the full text of an article, add &FT=1 to the string.
For example, to link to the journal article: 
RICARDO GOMEZ and JOHN PETERSON. The EU’s Impossibly
Busy Foreign Ministers: ‘no one is in control’, European Foreign
Affairs Review, 6: 53–74, 2001
you would use the URL: 
http://www.swetswise.com/link/access_db?issn=13846299&vol=6&
iss=1&page=53&year=2001
Some publishers available through Swetswise do not allow access
directly to full text, however, and for those publishers you will access an
abstract page which easily navigates users to the full text.
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Case studies and practical examples
Westlaw 
Westlaw (http://www.westlaw.com/) is a major source of electronic
journal information and other legal material, including legislation and
law reports. However, linking to journal titles and articles is possible:
you will need to contact your Westlaw representative for more
information. Westlaw have created an article linking tool, which
generates a stable URL from the legal citation. This tool is highly
valuable and enables academic staff to create deep links into Westlaw so
that students can easily find the material they need.
Science Direct
Science Direct (http://www.www.sciencedirect.com/) is one of the largest
collections of science, technology and medical information, containing
the Elsevier journal titles with almost 6 million full-text articles. Science
Direct are using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for all their journal
articles to allow users to create stable links. The method for linking is
very straightforward:
1. Locate the journal article you wish to link to.
2. From the table of contents click on the ‘SummaryPlus’ link.
3. At the top of the page the DOI is available, which will take the
following format:
Doi:10.1016/s0038-1101(03)00101-1 Cite or link using doi
4. Right click on the link above and ‘Copy Shortcut’. You will now have
a stable link to the article which can be pasted into a reading list.
For more information about DOIs see the Science Direct website.
EBSCO 
EBSCO (http://www.www.ebsco.com/home/) is an important electronic
journal provider in the field of business studies. It is very easy to link to
full-text articles available on EBSCO. Do not copy the link from the
browser window. Instead, when viewing the citation of an article that
you wish to link to, copy the URL from the field labelled ‘Persistent Link
to this Article’. A typical persistent or stable URL will look as follows:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?An=11502173&db=buh
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MetaPress 
MetaPress (http://www.metapress.com/) is an example of a smaller e-
journal provider that is also supporting the OpenURL standard. Using
this provider, it is possible to link at journal, issue and article level to
these titles. To locate the stable URL of either a journal title, issue or
article, use the ‘Linking Options’ link which is displayed in the citation
information. You can use the MetaPress Direct Linking method – simply
copy and paste the URL into your reading list. Alternatively MetaPress
provide an Open URL which can be copied and pasted into your reading
list.
For example, to link directly to an article in Volume 46, Number
5/2003 of the Academy of Management Journal, you may use:
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MetaPress Direct Linking: