• Description
• Linking directly to the CRO
• Linking to the Catalogue Record

Description

Course Resources Online (CRO) have been selected to complement courses offered at CQUniversity and are made available in consultation with the relevant academic staff.  For more information about CROs please see the information for academics.

There are two ways of linking to CROs.  The first uses an openURL to link to the catalogue record for the article, the second links directly to the article itself.

A link to the catalogue record, which contains the current link to the article, is less likely to change and therefore less likely to need editing in successive course offerings.

 LINKING DIRECTLY TO THE CRO

1. From Discover It!

1. From the Library home page, enter the course code into the Discover It! search box and click Search.
   
   
2. Find the article you want to link to.
   
   
3. Right mouse click on the Online Access link, and select Copy Link Location.
   
   
4. Create a link within Moodle using this URL.
   

To ensure copyright compliance all linked articles must open in a new browser window - instructions.

1. Go to the Library Catalogue
    
2. Under Search by Collection, click on Course Resources Online.
    
3. In the top search box, enter the Course Code to be searched and click on Search.
    
4. From the resulting list, find the CRO you would  like to link to.
    
5. Highlight the text of the link (not the link shortcut) displayed at the top of the catalogue record for the CRO, for example:

   

6. Right mouse click and select Copy (NOT copy shortcut).

   

7. In your Moodle course, highlight the citation you want linked to the PDF document and enter the copied URL as the hyperlink.

8. To send the link to the PDF by email using Outlook, Click on arrow below Paste.
   
   

9. Select Paste Special
   
   

   then select Unformatted Text

   
   This will ensure the correct URL is used as the link.

To ensure copyright compliance all linked articles must open in a new browser window - instructions.

If you are having difficulty creating working links, check out these tips.

LINKING TO THE CATALOGUE RECORD

1. Go to the Library Catalogue
    
2. Under Search by Collection, click on Course Resources Online.
    
3. In the first search box, enter the Course Code to be searched and click on Search.
   
   
    
4. From the resulting list, find the CRO you would  like to link to and click on Librarians Record.
   
   
    
5. Find the tag marked 035.  Copy the corresponding Data, excluding the /a.  eg, from the example below only copy CRO174.
   
   
    
6. Paste the data into the following text box
   
    
7. 
    
8. Your final URL will be:
   
    
    
9. To ensure copyright compliance all linked articles must open in a new browser window - instructions.