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Linking Library Resources in Canvas

This faculty-oriented guide provides directions on how to link to library online resources in your Canvas course. This guide includes detailed directions on how to create persistent links to content in the library's article databases.

Persistent Linking Instructions for PubMed

Follow these steps to create persistent links to articles in PubMed:

  1. Open PubMed from the Library Databases page.
  2. Find an article on your topic.
  3. Copy the URL in the browser toolbar.
  4. Paste the URL in your Canvas course, email message, online syllabus, etc.  The library remote access prefix is not needed PubMed articles.

Example Persistent Link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21276212

PubMed persistent link