Creating direct links to articles

...you can add http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url= in front of any URL and it will be pushed through UTL's authentication system. For example:

Your article is available on Wiley's website at: 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-7121.1998.tb01525.x/abstract

To push the user through our authentication process you would use this as the "permanent url:"

http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-7121.1998.tb01525.x/abstract

Or you could link directly to the PDF by using:

http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/10.1111/j.1754-7121.1998.tb01525.x/pdf

Jeff Newman
(from refinfo list March 25, 2013)

MLA citations no longer require URLS to be included.

MLA citations no longer require URLS to be included.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/11/mla

"...the MLA has ceased to recommend inclusion of URLs in citing Web-based works – unless the instructor requires it or a reader would likely be unable to locate the source otherwise. “Inclusion of URLs has proved to have limited value… for they often change, can be specific to a subscriber or a session of use, and can be so long and complex that typing them into a browser is cumbersome and prone to transcription errors. Readers are now more likely to find resources on the Web by searching for titles and authors' names than by typing URLs,” states the handbook."