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To share persistent links to articles on Access World News, you will have to follow several steps as shown below.
Once you have located an article you wish to share, you will look for the linking icon in the center of the toolbar across the top of the page. Clicking that icon will open a text box with the URL for the article. Click "copy."
After you have copied that URL, you will need to attach Kettering's proxy URL to the start of the article URL. Kettering's proxy URL is:
https://kettering.idm.oclc.org/login?url=
The article URL is:
https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=E675F9CCFEE34B84BC4658C40300753E&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Aimage%252Fv2%253A16AC4E57F3737A70%2540AWNB-19FE4A6D91CB444C%25402460778-19FE57F56DFBBAE4%25400/hlterms%3A
Adding them together, the full proxied URL required to access the article would be:
Navigating the Access World News database is very easy.
Scroll past the intro box to find suggested topics and quick links to specific news collections, like the Flint Journal current and historical archive, automotive news, business news, and more.
Clicking on one of the subjects will open up new options in that topic area. For example, if you click on "Social Issues," the menu will open up as shown below.
