The Dartmouth College Library licenses and buys thousands of full text resources such as journal articles, book chapters and full books, as well as images and visual materials, which you can use for teaching and research purposes. Many of these enable you to create persistent links to the full text, image or video, which you can use in Blackboard or for course reserves without having to get permission. Here you will find:

What you can do with digital materials

How to find the materials you need

How to create persistent links

What are my options if the material I want is NOT in the Dartmouth collections?

 

1. What can you do with digital materials? These uses are typically allowed for copyrighted materials:

• Download small numbers or percents onto a personal computer for personal education and research use
• Use in work prepared for classes, such as written work, presentations, videos, posters and other forms
• Use for presentations at conferences
• Always attribute both the creator of the object or text and the source database
• Seek permissions if desired use falls outside of these uses

2. How do I know what full-text resources are currently available from the Dartmouth College Library? Use any of these methods:

• Search for a journal or book title in the Dartmouth College Library Catalog and limit to WEB Resources
• Follow the ArticleLinker links that you find in the index and abstract resources like Academic Search Premier or Web of Science that will lead you to digital full text as well as print sources of articles, book chapters and books.
• If you have a specific citation to a journal article, try Article Citation Finder.
• Use Search360 to locate articles, books, book chapters, images, music and video on all topics

3. How do I create persistent links to this material?

• Many of the databases listed in the Dartmouth College Library Catalog and in eResources give a persistent link for a record and the record usually has the ArticleLinker link to the Dartmouth subscribed full text.
• Many journal articles have a unique DOI, or Digital Object Identifier. If a journal article gives a DOI such as this one for an article in Nature: 10.1038/375666a0, then just append it to this prefix: http://dx.doi.org/. The persistent link to the full text of this article would be: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/375666a0
• You can download references to all kinds of material into RefWorks , create a folder, and then share that folder,which generates a persistent link to this list of resources.

4. What are my other options if the material is not in a Dartmouth licensed collection and I cannot make a persistent link to it?

• Please contact the Course Reserve staff
• Refer to the Guidelines for Online Use of Course Material.