Including active links in Citation records

Did you know that you can include active links in your Citation records? You can include links to Web sites, PDF files, powerpoint presentations, spreadsheets, databases, word processing documents, images - any other type of file - on the Internet, your office network, or your computer.

An increasing number of researchers are finding full text versions of articles, cases, and even books available on the Internet. If you are working with Citation, you can include an active link to these materials in your bibliographic database. Active links can be entered in any Citation field - though it is probably best to enter them in the Reference field. That way, you'll always know where to find it.

Entering a link is simple. For Web sites, just include the URL with the standard prefix for Web addresses:

For lawyers working with decisions that need to be checked for currency (or "shepardized") regularly, including a link to an authority that can be checked easily could be a valuable addition to a database. Anyone working with Internet materials (that have a tendency to appear and then disappear), however, will find this feature valuable.

Links to individual files can also be entered in your Citation records. If, for instance, you are researching a topic, and download a number of full text articles in PDF format to your computer, you can enter a bibliographic record for the printed version, and a link to the PDF file on your computer.

Links to files on your computer should include the file://c:\ prefix:

Notice that you can include several links in the field. You can link to PDF files, word processing documents, images, or any other file. You might want to add a link, for instance, to a paper you've written, or a photograph. You can enter as many links as you need in the field.

To activate the link, just double click.

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