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Creating Course Links: Persistent URLs (PURLs): Examples for Specific Databases/Vendors

Access Medicine

Use the URL in the browser address bar when viewing tables of contents, chapter, or section.

Example:

https://acom.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceToc.aspx?resourceID=40

Clinical Key

Clinical Key has changed the way we make PURLs.  Please check with Nicole and she will be happy to create the PURL for you!

ebrary

Use the URL in the browser address bar.

Example:

https://acom.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/acomedu/detail.action?docID=10857501

LWW Medical Education Library

Use the URL in the browser address bar.

Example:

https://acom.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://meded.lwwhealthlibrary.com/content.aspx?bookid=739&sectionid=49936767

Ovid

For books, use the Email Jumpstart at the top of the page:

  • Click on Email Jumpstart
  • Copy the URL at the top of the page

Example:

https://acom.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=booktext&D=books1&AN=01429387/1st_Edition/10&XPATH=/OVIDBOOK%5b1%5d/METADATA%5b1%5d/TBY%5b1%5d/EDITORS%5b1%5d

For articles, use the DOI:

 
Example:
https://acom.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SIH.0000000000068

 


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