The Detroit Mercy Libraries' subscription databases provide the University community with online remote access to a vast selection of articles and electronic books, many of which are available as PDF files.
Unfortunately, our database licenses generally prevent you from downloading these PDFs then uploading them to your course site for students to view. Instead, the proper (copyright-friendly) solution is to provide your users with a permalink to the Libraries' catalog page for the source. The catalog page has a link to the electronic resource (a link which will be updated if the source moves from one database to another, which has been known to happen.
In this tutorial, we'll walk through the simple process of finding the source, getting the permalink, and a few methods for adding that link to a course.
First, we need to find the article in the University Libraries' catalog. Go to the Libraries / IDS web site (https://libraries.udmercy.edu), paste the title into the search box, and click SEARCH.