Linking to Library Resources

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Linking to Gale Databases

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Gale Databases

A Gale link can be created to a particular article or publication in Gale databases. Anyone who uses a durable or persistent link must have access to the database from which the URL came. Therefore, off-campus users must be authenticated as part of Madison Area Technical College through EZproxy. Off-campus users who click on a Madison College EZproxy persistent link will be prompted to enter their username and password.

 

Using Business Insights: Essentials: Create a link to allow off-campus access through EZproxy:

  1. Business Insights: Essentials does not use the Cross-Searchable interface.
  2. Locate an article of interest and click Share.  Clicking Share will bring up a View Bookmark window with a durable URL that will persist from session to session. (pictured)

Business Insights share button

  1. Select and copy the entire link.
  2. Paste the entire persistent link into your document, Blackboard, webpage, or email.
  3. Test the link.

Using a Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine and Opposing Viewpoints Cross-Searchable Gale databases: Create a Gale Link to allow off-campus access through EZproxy:

  1. Log in to a Gale database
  2. Locate an article or publication of interest. Click Get Link in the toolbar (pictured below) and a separate browser window will open. Do not use the link from the browser address bar. 

Get Link

  1. Select and copy the entire link. 

Get Link

  1. Paste the entire link into your document, Blackboard, webpage, or email.
  2. Test the link. 

 

Notes:

  • These URLs can become quite long and sometimes Blackboard, Microsoft, or other products may cut off long URLs, so be sure to test the links.
  • Gale Bookmarks are generally stable, however negotiated rights to publications change occasionally.

Sample Gale Bookmarks:  

"Social Networking Sites Are Addictive." Are Social Networking Sites Harmful? Ed. Stefan Kiesbye. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. At Issue. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 4 Feb. 2011.

Apple, Inc. Company Profile; Business Insights: Essentials

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