Library > Library Resources & Course Materials > Linking to Articles in ScienceDirect

• From the Library Home page, click on the EJournals by Title button.
• The Electronic Journal Search page will appear.
• Using the Search for E-Journals by Title field, search for the journal in which the article was published.
• A list of matching titles, collection holdings and databases on which they are contained will appear.
• Find the matching journal title and click on the link to an appropriate database – this procedure assumes that you have chosen the ScienceDirect database (if not please refer to the corresponding procedure).
• You will enter the database and go directly to the holdings for the selected journal.

• If you already know the publication date of the article, then scroll down and click the corresponding date to display the contents.

• If you already know the publication date of the article, then click the corresponding volume number to display the list of issues, then select the matching issue. If the issue/year is unknown:
  1. Type the keywords from the article title into the Quick Search: field, and click on the button.

• A list of articles will appear.

• Right-click on the Full Text + Links link for the article and select Copy Shortcut.

• Open the web page in an HTML editor (FrontPage, Dreamweaver) where you intend to place the link to the selected article.

• Type in the text you will use as your link.

• Select your link text by highlighting it with your mouse cursor.

• Go to Insert (in FrontPage) or Insert in (Netscape Composer)

• Select Hyperlink (FrontPage) or Link (Netscape)

• Ctrl-V to paste in the URL you copied (at step 4 above) into the Address box.

• In the Text to Display: box, type in the text that you want displayed on the web page which links to the URL in the Address box.

• The direct link to the article is now complete.

This step-by step-guide illustrates linking to a specific article within Expanded Academic ASAP. Links can also be made at a journal level and search level using the methods described.