Links to Specific Databases or the complete Database list
Objective: Fast-track your students to the databases they should search for their topics.
Description

You can fast-track your students to the databases they should search by providing live links to the most appropriate databases for their research projects or directing them to the entire list of the Library's database resources.

Sample Application

Examples of Links to databases

Procedures

To link to Databases of your choice or the complete Database list:
  • Click to go to the Databases page: http://www.lehigh.edu/library/databases/
  • right-click mouse on the Database name on the Database list and choose "Copy Link Location" to copy the URL
  • To link to the database list, right-click on the URL above and choose "Copy Link Location" to copy the URL
(Note: you cannot copy a link from WITHIN a database: URLs within databases will time out.)

Now you can put the URL into a BlackBoard course, or into an HTML page using Web page creation software such as Dreamweaver or Composer. To incorporate these links into BlackBoard, click here for instructions.