Blog Contributors

Use this guide as a resource to create your library blog posts.

Types of Links

General Tips

Make lots and lots of meaningful, useful, fun links!

Links are great ways to:

  • expand the breadth of our readers' knowledge
  • answer questions that might be sparked by reading your post
  • showcase our research tools, possibly bringing them the to readers' attention for the first time!

Just remember to make sure links are proxied, so that our off-campus blog readers can gain access to the resources.

Different tools provide proxied links in different ways. Below are some examples.

Creating stable links

There are several ways to create links in your blog. If you want to link to an individual record or a list of search results in your blog, Catalyst has a few ways to provide you with the link.

1.URLs generated by Catalyst are typically stable and can be used as links in blog posts. Simply copy the URL from the address bar of your browser and use it to create the link within your blog. 

 
2. At the top right of the search results,
there is an icon of a QR code. Click on that.
This will provide you an option to either copy a
stable link to your search results or copy the QR
code itself, which can then be embedded in a blog.
3. To link directly to a specific record, you can use
the ellipsis button at the top right corner of each search
result.
Clicking the ellipsis there will open a menu across
the bottom of the record. Among the options given
in that menu is Permalink. Copying the URL from
that spot will give you a stable URL that can be in your blog. 

 

Just like for Catalyst, there are a number of ways to make links to the database lists and individual databases. 

As normal, you can simply copy the URL from the Address Bar of your browser.   

If you'd like to link to an entire database list,
simply go to our subject database page. There,
you can right-click the name of the database list
you want, and, in the right-click drop down menu,
select "Copy Link Address."

To link a specific database you can do the same,
right-clicking the name of the database you want to link,
then selecting "Copy Link Address from the menu. 

Finally, if you want to assess the content from a database,
you can also find the stable URL from the database record

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making links to specific content within databases is a multi-step process:

  1. Find Stable URL for the database entry. This will vary dramatically among databases, so you need to look around. Usually the URL in the browser address bar is NOT a stable URL. See some samples below.
  2. Then, add the proxy address in front of the entry's stable URL. The proxy address is: http://proxy.library.jhu.edu/login?url=

 

Examples:

Stable URL at Bottom of Database Entry. Some databases put the persistent URL at the bottom of the documents within the database:

 

Stable URL in Designated Section. Other databases list the persistent URL in the in a "cite this" section or a section that explicitly states that it is a stable, permanent, or persistent URL. Each database is different, so you have to explore! Here are two such examples: