How to share a link to an article with your students and collaborators

DOI permanent links

Sometimes you will see only a DOI, and not a permanent link, when viewing the citation information for an article. A DOI is a standardized method for identifying an electronic object. DOIs often appear in the citation or the abstract of an article or even in its full-text format.

When you have located a DOI, follow these steps to complete the link.

To convert the DOI to a URL, precede it with the following:

https://dx.doi.org/

For example, the doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.008 becomes:

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.008

This is sufficient if the article is available for free.

To create a link to an article that Concordia Library subscribes to, the Library's proxy must also be added to your URL. For example:

https://lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.008

Tip: If you cannot find the DOI of an article, try using the following tool: https://www.crossref.org/guestquery/