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Search@UW May 2021 Upgrade: Permalinks to Records in Search@UW

Permalinks to Records in Search@UW

A new version of Murphy Library's Search@UW will launch on Thursday, May 20, 2021. You can try the new Search@UW now.

About Permalinks

Search@UW offers "permalinks" as reliable URLs to bookmark or otherwise save for accessing individual listings found in the system. 

(Copying the URL from the browser address bar may sometimes seem to work as well, but permalinks are much more likely to work long-term.)

Permalinks are especially useful for facilitating returning access to Murphy Library online resources like ebooks and streaming videos.

To retrieve a permalink for a listing in Search@UW, first view the full record, then find the permalink for that record by clicking on the Permalink button in the "Send to" part of the page.

After May 20

The new Search@UW continues to support permalinks.

Unfortunately, permalinks made before May 20 may no longer work after May 20. We will try to automatically redirect links to the same items in the new version, but that is not a permanent solution and may not work for all pre-May 20 permalinks.

If you have any permalinks to listings in Search@UW in Canvas courses or elsewhere that you plan on using after the Spring 2021 semester, you should update the links with permalinks made with new version of Search@UW. It is a quick process.

  1. Here is an example of an old Search@UW permalink. You can tell that it is from the old version based on the highlighted text:

  2. old primo permalink

  3. On or after May 20, 2021, link to the old Search@UW permalink. You can select the link and paste it into your browser's address bar.


  4. You should automatically be redirected to the same listing in the new Search@UW. Click the Permalink button to view and copy the new URL.
    new permalink


  5. The new URL should start with the following highlighted text. The rest of the URL will probably also be different than the old URL.

    New URL: https://wisconsin-uwlax.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UWI_LC/vg99cl/alma992227243402125


  6. Replace your old bookmarked or saved permalink URL with your new permalink URL.

About Search@UW

Search@UW includes the Murphy Library Catalog, with listings for all of the library's online/streaming offerings and hardcopy/DVD/microform holdings.

There are also listings for:

  • Everything held at other UW libraries and available to request through UW System Resource Sharing
  • Special Collections and ARC Archival Materials Statewide
  • Digital Collections at UW System Libraries
  • Many articles found in journals, magazines, newsletters and newspapers

A new version of Search@UW will launch on Thursday, May 20, 2021. You can try the new Search@UW now.