If you want to send or post a link to an article, e-book, or streaming video from one of our research databases (or to the database itself), you usually can't just copy the URL that appears in your browser's address bar. That URL is often uniquely generated for that particular viewing or one particular computer, and/or will not work from off-campus.
Most databases will provide you with a stable URL (also called a document URL, permanent link, share link, or something similar) that can be used to access the article. Instructions for finding the stable URL are in the sections below.
The stable URL usually needs to be preceded by https://lccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu/login?url= to work from off-campus. With some databases, this prefix is automatically added to the URL. If it is not, you will need to manually add it in front of the stable URL. The exceptions are Kanopy, Opposing Viewpoints, OverDrive, and Swank, which work differently and do not require the prefix.
To link to an article using a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), append the DOI to the end of this URL: https://lccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/___
Examples:
To create a link to an article from JSTOR, follow the directions in the sections below to find the stable URL in JSTOR.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1146851
Then add the prefix (shown below in red) in front of the URL (shown in green).
https://lccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1146851
When you send out an article link or put it into your webpage, use the whole thing as your URL.
To create a link using a DOI (such as for Science or ScienceDirect articles), add the prefix in front of the DOI URL (https://doi.org/ + the DOI).
DOI: 10.1126/science.354.6310.273
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.354.6310.273
https://lccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1126/science.354.6310.273
What Happens When You Follow the Link?
Someone who is on campus will go directly to the article, e-book, or video. Someone who is off-campus will have to log in with their UH username and password before getting to the article, e-book, or video.
If you are an instructor and you are linking to a library resource in a Leeward CC Laulima course site, use this prefix instead: https://laulima.hawaii.edu/libproxy/lee/?
This prefix will allow students who are logged in to Laulima to access databases and resources without having to log in again.
For more information, see the Linking in Laulima tab.
Links that you have already created using our old prefixes, http://lccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu:2048/login?url= or https://lccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu:2443/login?url=, will continue to work for proxying purposes. But we do recommend updating them to our current prefix as you are able to, because we've found that some networks that have especially strict security settings will block connections to URLs with special port numbers like 2048 and 2443.
If you have embedded a streaming video player in a web page or Laulima page using the old "2048" prefix, you must update the prefix as explained below.
If you have embedded a video player on a web page using the old "2048" proxy prefix in the code, it will no longer work. You need to update it to the current prefix, or if on a Laulima page, replace it with the Laulima prefix.
To update the prefix, 1) Add an "s" to the first "http" to make it "https", and 2) remove the :2048.
<iframe src="https://lccproxy.lib.hawaii.edu:2048/login?url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/embed/token/06htuoj5eprnochh64p3ee9j" frameborder="0" width="470" height="390" allowfullscreen allow ="encrypted-media *;"></iframe>
This change is necessary because web browsers no longer allow the embedding of unsecured HTTP content into secure HTTPS web pages.
You will need to be viewing an individual article or article record to follow these instructions.
You will need to be viewing an individual article or article record to follow these instructions.
Some databases may show a different stable URL when the record is viewed while off campus than when on campus. We believe that the off-campus URLs will still work. These databases include ABI/INFORM, Dictionary of Literary Biography, ProQuest Ebook Central, eHRAF, and ProQuest US West Newsstream.
If the off-campus stable URL contains "lccproxy.hawaii.edu", you don't need to add the proxy prefix.