Q. How do I create journal article links for my CV or dossier?
How do I find a journal article's DOI?
When providing a list of publications for your curriculum vitae or promotion and tenure dossier, including DOIs can help reviewers easily find your articles. A DOI (digital object identifier) is a unique number assigned to a digital object such as a journal article. Webpage URLs may change over time, but the DOI will remain the same. Keep in mind that not all articles will have a DOI. The DOI system was announced in 1997 therefore older articles may not have DOIs unless a journal retrospectively assigned them.
DOIs typically appear in two formats, a string of numbers and letters alone or the same string with an https prefix. Either can be copied and pasted into your CV or dossier, but if you prefer having an actionable link, you can preface the string with https://doi.org/. For example:
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10.1172/JCI181471
can be turned into
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https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI181471
The following are ways to find a DOI:
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If you are viewing the article in a database such as PubMed or the journal's website, the DOI typically appears next to the article citation near the top of the page. Copy the DOI and paste it into your CV or dossier, adding the https://doi.org/ prefix if desired, making sure there are no spaces after the prefix.
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If you do not see the DOI in the database or journal website, go to CrossRef and search metadata using the article title and author's name to find its DOI. Copy the DOI and paste it into your CV or dossier.
Finding the DOI in PubMed:
Finding the DOI in a journal website:
How do I create a link to an article so that it can be accessible off campus?
Using a DOI will get to the full text article (if available) while on campus, but it may not work as well for someone off campus. Adding the library’s "proxy prefix" to the beginning of the DOI URL or the article URL creates an actionable link that will point to the library collections even when off campus. You can copy your journal article URL and paste it into our link generator to automatically create links that work off campus, or use the following steps:
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Our proxy prefix is:
https://proxy.hsl.ucdenver.edu/login?url=
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Find your article’s DOI URL or the journal website URL (by copying the URL from the address bar of your browser):
https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI181471
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/181471
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Copy the proxy prefix and paste it in front of either the DOI URL or the journal website URL, making sure there are no spaces after the proxy prefix. The complete link would look like either one of the following:
https://proxy.hsl.ucdenver.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI181471
https://proxy.hsl.ucdenver.edu/login?url=https://www.jci.org/articles/view/181471
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Copy the complete link and paste it in your CV or dossier.
You can find more information on the Strauss Library website about linking to articles in a specific database and linking to items in the library catalog.
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