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Unlike the results from a Google search, the URL in the address bar for most articles found through Library databases will not remain active indefinitely, and, in fact, will often time out within an hour of opening the tab/article. If you try to use the same link again later, it will not work.  To avoid losing access to the search, citation, or article, you can take one of the following steps: 

1. Email the item or search to yourself -- look for an email icon (often an envelope). The email will contain the Permalink or Persistent Link back to the article. 
   
    Sometimes the icons appear without the words next to a PDF: 
   
    
2. Find the Permalink icon for the article/citation (often a chain link, see above Tools) and copy that URL into an email to yourself or a Word doc.  This will be different than the link on the address bar. 
   
   
   
   A Search Results page also has a unique Permalink which can be copied and saved to a document. Look for the Share menu in EBSCO databases (see below) to identify the Permalink for the search itself. 
   
   
   
    
3. Create an account with EBSCO or whichever platform the database uses, and SAVE the citation to a personalized folder within that platform. This saves the record indefinitely in your own account.
   
   Look for this purple bar at the top of your page and click on Sign In.
   
   
   
   Then, choose how you want to sign in (with Google or make a separate account--see Create New One under the Sign in box). 
   
    
   
   After doing so, you will be returned to your search results. Click the Folder icon to the right of a citation in order to add a citation/article to your personalized folder. 
   
    
   
   Then, click the Folder icon near the top of the page (see purple bar above) in order to access all articles you have saved to your folder. Be sure to sign in PRIOR to saving articles, so that they are saved to your personalized folder! If you are not signed in, they will not save past the point at which you close your browser. 
   
   

The images above were from EBSCOhost platform databases (of which we have over 50). Another example of where to find a Permalink is in the JSTOR database, which contains full-text, scholarly journal articles on a variety of subjects. 

Notice the link is unlabeled but appears just above the "Cite this item" button.

If you have further questions on finding Permalinks to articles and citations, email zonlib@taylor.edu.