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Library Database Permalink Guide: O'Reilly

O'Reilly Linking Process

O'Reilly is a great database but it has an unusual process for linking to its resources.

This is the base URL that you'll use to build O'Reilly links.

https://csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.oreilly.com//?ar&email=^u

You will copy specific title information from O'Reilly items' URLs and paste that in between the slashes in the base URL between www.oreilly.com/  and  /?ar?email=^u

So, if the URL for an individual title in O'Reilly looks like this,

https://learning-oreilly-com.csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/library/view/a-pythonic-adventure/9781633438897/

You would copy out this portion of the URL,

library/view/a-pythonic-adventure/9781633438897

And you would paste it into the base URL between the slashes between the "view" and the "?", like this.

https://csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/a-pythonic-adventure/9781633438897/?ar&email=^u

So, in the URL you see in the address bar, copy out everything after csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/ and paste it between those slashes in the base URL.

The video and document below will illustrate how to do this.

O'Reilly Linking Process Illustrated

Video showing this process