OhioLINK OLinks: What Is It?
Article vs. journal or issue level links
View our contributions to OLinks
Delays adding new e-journals to OLinks
Contact Penny Pearson if you have questions about the OLinks service.
OLinks allows users to link to the full text of an article from a citation found in abstracting and indexing databases provided by
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- EBSCO
- ISI
- MathSciNet
- NISC
- OCLC
- OSearch (OhioLINK databases)
- ProQuest (some databases)
- PubMed
- RLG
The OLinks script checks these full text aggregators in the following priority order:
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OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
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e-journals subscribed to by OSU Libraries and listed in the spreadsheet sent to OhioLINK
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Wilson servers for journals indexed in Education Abstracts and Humanities Abstracts
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EBSCO servers for journals indexed in EBSCO databases.
OLinks is no longer restricted to e-journals using the OpenURL format. Penny can include in the OLinks spreadsheet all e-journals subscribed to by OSU Libraries, provided the journal has an ISSN and the Web site lists specific volumes and years. Some OSCAR records with hyperlinks are for Web sites rather than e-journals and are not included in the OLinks spreadsheet.
Article vs. Journal or Issue Level Links
Article Level Links
OLinks first tries to link directly to the full text of the desired article and does this
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based on EJC article level links or article level linking information in the spreadsheet sent to OhioLINK or
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by checking the DOI.org (digital object identifier) site to determine if the publisher registered an article level DOI.
Journal or Issue Level Links
If an article level link is not possible, OLinks offers a link to the journal or issue level, based on the publisher's URL format and the information in the spreadsheet sent to OhioLINK. In these situations the phrase at the top of the OLinks page will be either:
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View this journal at [provider's name]. or
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View this issue at [provider's name].
The user must navigate through the e-journal site or issue table of contents to locate the article cited in the abstracting and indexing database..
Checking the doi.org site for article level links means that OLinks will not link to the journal or issue level link in the spreadsheet sent to OhioLINK if an article level link is found at the doi.org site.
View our contributions to OLinks
View the most recent OLinks spreadsheet loaded by OhioLINK.
An updated spreadsheet is sent to OhioLINK monthly.
Delays adding new e-journals to OLinks
Penny does a weekly Felix boolean to identify newly cataloged e-journals and adds them to her spreadsheet. If a bib record is suppressed when retrieved by the Felix boolean, Penny checks it periodically and adds it to her spreadsheet only when the bib record is unsuppressed and available to users.
If an OLinks link does not work consult the OLinks Troubleshooting FAQ.
Regional Campus users may see a link to full text on the OLinks page but be unable to view it because their campus is not included in our license for that electronic journal.