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Linking To Library Electronic Resources: Links to Books and eBooks

NYU Law Faculty are able to access many electronic resources for articles, cases, statutes, etc. This guide describes how to create links to these resources for your students in your Brightspace page.

Overview

There are two steps to providing a link to resources for your students:

Step one: locate the book

Step two: generate a link to the resource

The column on the left-hand side provides instructions for step one, locating the book or ebook. The column on the right-hand side provides instructions for step two, generating a link. 

Step One: Locating Books & eBooks

The first step in providing links to library resources for students is to find the resource yourself before generating a link. Actually finding a resource will involve different steps depending on what kind of resource you want to provide a link for. The boxes below will provide step-by-step instructions for locating online versions of various types of resources.

Locating Books & eBooks via the Discovery and Julius Catalogs

Discovery and Julius are NYU Law Library's online catalogs. You can use them to search for many of the library's print and online resources, including books.

Login to the Discovery catalog using your NYU ID: https://discovery.law.nyu.edu/. Search for the relevant title. More search tips can be found in this guide.

Alternatively, you may also generate a Julius permalink. Go to the Julius catalog, julius.law.nyu.edu. Enter the title, exactly as it appears except for any colons, in the first search bar. Change the category from Keyword to Title using the drop-down menu. 

  • Note: you can also search by author. Author searches must be in this order: last name, first name. 

Depicts the NYU Law Library's Julius library catalog. The search box entitled "Find Books & More" has been circled in red for emphasis.

3. Results will appear for print books and/or eBooks. Sometimes, the catalog entry for a resource will contain a link to the electronic version and the location and call number for the print version; other times, there will be two separate catalog entries, one for the print and one for the electronic. 

4. Once you have located the page in the catalog for your resource (print or electronic), please go to step two, to the right, for instructions on how to generate a link.

For more strategies on finding eBooks, please click here.

Locating Books & eBooks via the Bobst catalog

1. Go to the NYU Bobst library, library.nyu.edu

2. Enter the title of the book in quotes.

3. Results will appear for print books and/or eBooks. Select your resource.

4. Click the "Short URL" option on the page and then paste the link into your materials. 

Step Two: Creating a Link to a Book or eBook

Note: when providing a link to an eBook, it is preferable to provide a link to the page in the Julius Catalog where students can click the link for online access, as opposed to providing the link to the material itself. Catalog links are generally more stable and would incorporate the NYU authentication required for access.

In Discovery, once you have located a catalog item, select the Share icon (a winding arrow), then click Create Link to generate a catalog link. Note that you have to login to Discovery to access this feature.

Depicts a sample book in the NYU Law Library Discovery library catalog, entitled 'International arbitration: law and practice'. In the library record for this book, there are several icons on the top right of the record with different functionalities. An icon depicting a curved arrow (curving in the direction from bottom to top-right) is highlighted for emphasis with a red square box. This function enables users to share a stable link to the book on Discovery.

If you are using Julius, follow the steps below:

1. Select the catalog entry for the electronic version of the resource, if available. In the search example below, you can see that the second entry is the e-version of the book, noted by the word "Internet." If there is no electronic version but you want to provide your students with a link to the catalog entry for print resource, the same steps below apply.

Displays the search results of a search on the NYU Law Library Julius library catalog. The second result in the results list is a book entitled 'Governance by indicators [electronic resource]: global power through quantification and rankings.' For this item on the result list, there is an icon to the left with a globe, labelled "Internet." This icon and label has been circled in red for emphasis, to alert the user that it is an electronic book.

2. Click the link that says "bookmark link for this record" to create a permalink to the catalog entry for the resource. 

In the next screenshot of the earlier book found in the Julius Law Library catalog, the picture depicts the item record of the eBook itself. On the right hand side of the book, there is a hyperlink labelled "bookmark link for this record." This is highlighted with a red rectangular box for emphasis in creating a stable link on Julius.

3. Copy the link from your browser's search bar. You will notice the permalink is shorter than the link you were viewing before.

A screenshot of the page using the permanent link generated by the Julius Law Library catalog. The URL on the top of the web page is highlighted with a red rectangular box for emphasis in order to show that it is a shorter stable link.

4. Insert the link. When students click the link, they can then use the links under the Online Access Provided By heading to whichever eBook database where we have access to the resource. Sometimes, we have access to the resource through more than one database. In that case, students can select either link.