Get Share Links for Courses
ChampSearch | Ebooks | Streaming Video | Databases
The library provides access to hundreds of thousands of valuable online resources, including eBooks, database articles, and streaming video. These resources are freely and openly available to all faculty, staff, and students. Faculty are strongly encouraged to use the library's online resources for their syllabi, textbooks, and reading lists whenever possible, as doing so helps to alleviate the financial burden on students caused by purchasing course materials.
Below you will find instructions on how to get shareable links for eBooks, streaming video, and database articles. These links can be shared through email, pasted into Canvas, or however else you would like to share with on-campus students, online students, and other faculty and staff.
ChampSearch
Do you have questions about using ChampSearch? Check out our side-by-side tutorials!
To get a shareable link for any resource type:
1. Find the resource you want to share from your ChampSearch results.
2. Click on the title of the resource.
3. On the upper right side of the screen, click on the arrow icon.
4. On the pop-up screen, click "Create Link".
5. Paste the URL into Canvas, an email, or anywhere else you'd like to link to library resources.
Ebooks
Do you have questions about using and accessing ebooks? Check out our EBooks Guide!
To get a shareable eBook link:
Option 1:
1. Find the ebook you want to add to your course in ChampSearch.
2. Right-click on the "Online Access" link.
3. Then click "Copy link address."
4. Paste the url into Canvas, an email, or anywhere else you'd like to link to library resources.
Option 2:
1. Find the ebook you want to add to your course in ChampSearch and click on "Retrieve Catalog Item."
2. On the catalog record page, right-click on "Connect to this resource online."
3. Then click "Copy link address."
4. Paste the URL into Canvas, an email, or anywhere else you'd like to link to library resources .
To link directly to O'Reilly ebook sections and chapters
To link directly to an ebook chapter or section in O'Reilly, first find the ebook you want to use in the library catalog and navigate to the section you want to use. In this example, we want to link to chapter 6 of the book Broadcast Journalism: Techniques of Radio and Television News, 6th edition.
I have found the chapter I want to link to and will copy the url from the browser. In this case, the browser url is: https://learning-oreilly-com.
The above link cannot be used on its own to access this book and chapter in O'Reilly. For this link to work, "?ar&orpq&email=^u" must be added to the end of it making the link: https://learning-oreilly-com.
The above link can be shared with a student. It will route them through the correct library authentication method and bring them directly to chapter 6 of this book. If you have any questions or would like assistance with creating share links please email referencedesk@champlain.edu.
Streaming Video
Do you have questions about using and accessing streaming video? Would you like more information on how to search for films in Kanopy? Check out our Streaming Media guide.
To get a shareable streaming video link:
Option 1:
1. Find the streaming video you want to add to your course in ChampSearch.
2. Right-click on the "Online Access" link.
3. Then click "Copy link address."
4. Paste the url into Canvas, an email, or anywhere else you'd like to link to library resources.
Option 2:
1. Find the streaming video you want to add to your course in ChampSearch and click on "Retrieve Catalog Item."
2. On the catalog record page, right-click on "Connect to this resource online."
3. Then click "Copy link address."
4. Paste the URL into Canvas, an email, or anywhere else you'd like to link to library resources .
If the video you are hoping to include is not in the library catalog, you can search for available films in Kanopy and fill out a request form to have the film added to the collection. For more information on how to search in Kanopy use our guide.
To get a shareable link directly from a database:
You can also get share links directly from our streaming video databases. The image below is an example from AVON.
1. Navigate to the streaming video that you would like students to access within a streaming video database.
2. Find the "share" option on the video page. Click on "Share" and the permalink for the video will show up on screen.
3. Click the "Copy Permalink" and paste the URL into Canvas, an email, or anywhere else you'd like to link to library resources.
NOTE: Do NOT copy the URL in the address bar of your browser.
Databases
Do you have questions about using databases? Check out our video tutorials.
To get a shareable link when using an EBSCO or ProQuest database:
1. Navigate to the article, ebook, or other library resource that you would like students to access using the library databases.
2. Locate the document URL (ProQuest) or permalink (EBSCO). DO NOT copy the URL in the address bar of your browser (stable URLs/permalinks are in different places in different databases; for help locating email referencedesk@champlain.edu)
3. Copy and paste the URL into Canvas, an email, or anywhere else you'd like to link to library resources.
The EBSCO permalink is in the right-side menu:
The ProQuest document URL is located at the bottom of the details page for an article:
To get a shareable link when using JSTOR, Gale/Infotrac, or other databases:
1. Navigate to the article, ebook, or other library resource that you would like students to access using the library databases.
2. Locate the stable URL or permalink. DO NOT just copy the URL in the address bar (stable URLs/permalinks are in different places in different databases; for help locating it email referencedesk@champlain.edu)
3. Use the link creator to enhance the URL for off-campus access.
4. Paste the new enhanced URL into Canvas, an email, or anywhere else you'd like to link to library resources.
Stable links in JSTOR are not labeled. They can be found below the article information:
