Did you know that your subject guides or other web pages can include direct links to CLIO records? I learned this from Cathy Thomas while working on the religion subject guide, and apparently it’s already been used on Business and Music pages, but it doesn’t seem to be widely known.

There is a SWIFT link to a resource that will take the long session-dependent URL for a CLIO record, and strip off all the session-dependent code, leaving a direct link to to the record itself. So, if your subject guide includes print resources, you can have a link directly to the CLIO record for that title.

The direct URL to the resource is https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/staffweb/clio/ search_generator.html

You can also get there by clicking on CLIO on SWIFT (under DIGITAL), and then clicking on “Canned CLIO Search Generator” in the lower right quadrant of the page.

An example of how this has been used is here http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/ music/reserves/music_hum.html

I agree with Cathy that it makes sense to have the link read “Click here for CLIO record” rather than linking the actual title of the print resource, as the latter method might confuse people into thinking that the link would lead to an online resource.

Hope you find this as useful as I have!