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For Instructors: Adding database articles to Canvas

Resources for Lake Land Instuctors

OpenAthens Links - Redirector URLs

Sue Nugent has created a course module about what databases are integrated with Canvas. 

 

In order for your links to all other resources to work off campus you need to add a redirector prefix to them.  For example, to share an article from the library discovery search box, then an OpenAthens link must be generated so that it will work off campus.  Students will be prompted to login with their Laker ID and password, as usual when logging into databases from outside their VM. 

For example, this link to an article:
https://discovery.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=c7cb2a91-53fa-3f6f-9965-09f8c1e67662
must be generated to create the link below to work off campus:

https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lakelandcollege.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ebsco.com%2Flinkprocessor%2Fplink%3Fid%3Dc7cb2a91-53fa-3f6f-9965-09f8c1e67662

 

All you need to remember is to copy and paste any existing e-resources bookmark links or Canvas links into the OpenAthens Link Generator. The common prefix is https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lakelandcollege.edu?url=, but it's easier to copy your new link from the generator.