Link to a full text reference title on Oxford Reference Online

You can create a persistent link to reference titles (such as a dictionary) within a Oxford Reference Online.

Titles could be linked from reading lists, additional readings, or as a reference within the text of an outline or assignment instruction.

Example: a Dictionary of Nursing

A Dictionary of Nursing. Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.

Students should use the dictionary to aid in their understanding of the key concepts covered in the readings for first semester.

Example: links to specific entries and definitions from Oxford Reference Online titles

Use the information from these topics and definitions to inform discussion in your group projects and work for assignment 2.

Diabetes (A Dictionary of Nursing)
Diabetes (Oxford Companion to the Body)
Gerontology (A Dictionary of Sociology)
Insulin (An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs)
Obesity (Oxford Companion to the Body)

How to make a persistent URL link to Oxford Reference Online titles
  1. Connect to Oxford Reference Online using this link. This will by pass the library's EZProxy authentication server. (You must be on campus to use this link to then create the persistent link, but the link will then work from off campus).
  2. Search for a reference book title using the "Subjects & Books tab.
  3. identify the reference book you want to link to
  4. Click the right mouse button on the title of the reference book, and select Copy shortcut or Copy link location depending on your browser. The link URL is copied to the clipboard.
  5. To allow the link to work from off campus you need to add the EZ Proxy prefix to the URL you copied in the previous step.
    The prefix is:
    http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=
  6. Add this to the start of the URL, for example:
    http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/
    BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t62
  7. Copy this URL and use it to link to the article from your webpage, or quote the URL in printed reading lists.
Linking to an extract or definition in Oxford Reference Online
  1. Connect to Oxford Reference Online using this link. This will by pass the library's EZProxy authentication server. (You must be on campus to use this link to then create the persistent link, but the link will then work from off campus).
  2. You can link to an extract or definition from a reference work in Oxford Reference Online. For example, you can link to the definition of a term in a dictionary. In the example below the link goes to the definition of "diabetes" in the Dictionary of nursing.
  3. Connect to Oxford Reference Online and search for a term. You can also browse a specific reference work, then find a specific definition or extract to link to.
  4. Go to the definition you want to link to and copy the URL from the browser Address window.
    It will look like this:
    http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?ssid=427219829
    & entry=t62.002367&srn=5#FIRSTHIT
  5. To allow the link to work from off campus you need to add the EZ Proxy prefix to the URL you copied in the previous step.
    The prefix is:
    http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=
  6. Add this to the start of the URL. For example:
    http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/
    ENTRY.html?ssid=427219829&entry=t62.002367&srn=5#FIRSTHIT
  7. Copy this URL and use it to link to the article from your webpage, or quote the URL in printed reading lists.
Example of an Oxford Reference Online reference title link:

A Dictionary of Nursing. Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.

http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/
BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t62

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7th December 2011