EBSCOhost Research Databases available through the MATC Libraries include:
Alternative HealthWatch
MAS Online Plus
Academic Search Elite
MasterFILE Premier
Clinical Pharmacology
Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Collections
Business Source Elite
Professional Development Collection
CINAHL
PsycARTICLES
Health Source
and others
EBSCO Persistent Links
A persistent link can be created to a particular article or publication in EBSCOhost 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 MATC through EZproxy. Off campus users who click on a MATC Ezproxy persistent link will be prompted to enter their username and password.
EBSCO persistent links tend to be reliable and relatively short, making them easy to work with.
To create an EBSCO persistent link (durable url) which will allow off-campus
access through EZproxy:
Login to EBSCOhost . When creating durable links, it is easiest to go use the EBSCOhost link which is listed on the MATC Libraries Find Articles page, and then select the specific database or databases to search. If you use the EBSCOhost link to select the databases and access articles, the MATC EZproxy prefix should already be added to the persistent links. If you select an individual databases directly from the Find Articles page, you may need to use the URL creator to append the prefix.
Locate an article or publication of interest. EBSCO citations include a persistent link to the article with the MATC EZproxy prefix http://ezproxy.matcmadison.edu/login?url= usually already added. Do not use the link from the browser address bar; Use the "persistent link to this record" which is included in the citation.
Select and copy the entire persistent link.
Note: If the MATC EZproxy prefix http://ezproxy.matcmadison.edu/login?url= is not already included at the start of the persistent link, use the MATC EZproxy URL Creator to append the prefix to the peristent link.
Paste the entire persistent link with the MATC EZproxy prefix into your document, Blackboard, webpage, or email.
Items and persistent links may also be emailed, or marked and saved to a folder by clicking the folder add
icon. When you want to print, e-mail or save several results, you can
save them to the folder, then print, e-mail or save the articles and/or persistent
links from the folder. If you end your session, or it times out due to inactivity,
the folder is automatically cleared unless you are signed in to your personal
My EBSCOhost account (see below). A maximum of 50 items can be saved at one
time.
My EBSCOhost personal account:
EBSCO also offers the option of setting up a personal account. Logging
in to My EBSCOhost allows the user to save articles or searches with persistent links to
a personal folder. Items in the folder can be saved from session to session. Items in the folder
can be printed, emailed or saved along with the persistent URLs. Search alerts and RSS feeds can also be set up. Click on the Sign In link at top of the screen to access these features.
