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Linking to articles and films

Creating persistent URLs or PURLs

Proquest

The instructions below will work for over 100 databases available on the Proquest platform.

1. Perform a search in the Proquest database of your choice.

2. Click the title of the item in the result list that you want to link to.

3. Click the "copy URL" icon in the upper right to get a URL that consistently routes the student to the item through our login software.

proquest search with result title highlighted

Proquest icon for copying the URL