Linking To Library Electronic Resources: Overview

On behalf of the NYU Law Library, welcome! The library and library resources are available to you and your students. You can add links to library materials into your courses - either directly in your syllabus or on Brightspace, or both. Providing links allows your students to get immediate access to course materials without having to search for it on their own. 

This guide is intended to help professors and their assistants prepare links to insert into course materials. 

General Best Practices

• Look for a free version of the resource before providing a link to a database.
• When including a link to an eBook, link to the page in the catalog, not the resource itself (for example, a link like this "julius.law.nyu.edu/record=b2887924", not a link to the eBook platform "https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=415086"). Catalog links are usually more stable as the platform links may change over time, and will also include the NYU authentication needed for access.
• Most databases - aside from Westlaw, Lexis, and Bloomberg - require adding an NYU proxy link ("http://proxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=") before the stable link to the resource to prompt students to log in with their NetID in order to gain access to the resource.