Creating Links to Full Text

The library maintains current linking information for our electronic journals in the library's SFX database. When you find a citation in a research database and click on the Yale Library SFX button, the SFX system constructs a URL on the fly that incorporates the current linking information. You can use the SFX OpenURL Generator to build a dynamic URL to a full text journal article that will continue to work even if the "static URL" for a journal changes.

SFX OpenURL Generator

You will first open your Blackboard course and go to the place where you wish to insert a link to full text. You may do this, for example, in the Assignments or External Links areas of Blackboard. Please consult Blackboard documentation for more instructions on using Blackboard. Fill in all the information about the citation you are giving. When you are ready to insert a link, follow these instructions:

1. Go to the OpenURL Generator
2. Fill in the following information:
   full journal title (omit leading articles, e.g., a, an, the)
   year
   volume
   issue
   start page
3. Check the "View OpenURL" box and select Submit.
4. An SFX menu with the OpenURL will be displayed. Highlight and copy the OpenURL to your Blackboard course.