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Create Stable Links to Library Resources

How to create permalinks to the Library's resources.

Canadian Oxford Dictionary

  1. Find the item by entering your term in the "Search within work" box, and and click on the desired entry.
  2. The URL in the browser bar is the stable link. Copy the URL.
  3. Delete the section .ezcentennial.ocls.ca or .centennial.idm.oclc.org from the middle of the link, if present.
  4. Replace the hypens/dashes in the domain name with periods/dots, e.g. www-oxfordreference-com becomes www.oxfordreference.com
  5. Delete everything after the "?", including the question mark itself, e.g. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195418163.001.0001/m_en_ca0014050?rskey=S7iLb5&result=1 becomes https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195418163.001.0001/m_en_ca0014050 
  6. If your students will be accessing the item from off-campus, add this prefix to your URL: http://ra.ocls.ca/ra/login.aspx?inst=centennial&url=

Example:
For the item, "college",
the stable URL is: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195418163.001.0001/m_en_ca0014050
the link on your web page for on- and off-campus access is: http://ra.ocls.ca/ra/login.aspx?inst=centennial&url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195418163.001.0001/m_en_ca0014050

CSA OnDemand

  1. Find the item and click on the entry.
  2. Navigate to the desired PDF.  Copy the URL in the broswer bar.
  3. Delete the section .ezcentennial.ocls.ca or .centennial.idm.oclc.org from the middle of the link, if present.
  4. Replace the hypens/dashes in the domain name with periods/dots, e.g. view-csagroup-org becomes view.csagroup.org
  5. If your students will be accessing the item from off-campus, add this prefix to your URL: http://ra.ocls.ca/ra/login.aspx?inst=centennial&url=

Example:
For the item, "CSA N290.20:21 (Aging management requirements for nuclear power plants)",
the stable URL is: https://view.csagroup.org/CmmX2d
the link on your web page for on- and off-campus access is: http://ra.ocls.ca/ra/login.aspx?inst=centennial&url=https://view.csagroup.org/CmmX2d

Westlaw Carswell

  1.  Proxy prefix via SSO:
    https://www.westlaw.com/reverseProxy/CRSW_CentennialCol?rs=WLNC1.0&vr=3.0&target=http%3A%2F%2Fnextcanada.westlaw.com%2FreverseProxy%3Fredirectto%3D

  2. Find the resource and click “Copy link", e.g. this is the copied link from the LawSource page:
    https://nextcanada.westlaw.com/Browse/Home/LawSource?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&VR=3.0&RS=cblt1.0

     

  3. Delete everything at the end of the copied link, starting with and including the “?”
    https://nextcanada.westlaw.com/Browse/Home/LawSource 

     

  4. Modify the copied link with these character replacements

    : = %253A

    / = %252F

    New edited link:
    https%253A%252F%252Fnextcanada.westlaw.com%252FBrowse%252FHome%252FLawSource

  5. Join the proxy prefix and new edited link
    http://www.westlaw.com/reverseProxy/CRSW_CentennialCol?rs=WLNC1.0&vr=3.0&target=http%3A%2F%2Fnextcanada.westlaw.com%2FreverseProxy%3Fredirectto%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fnextcanada.westlaw.com%252FBrowse%252FHome%252FLawSource

     

  6. Place the link on a web page.  You cannot access the resource directly with the link alone because the system is expecting a referring page.
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