How to Use Britannica Academic

Link to Britannica Academic articles or video so that they can be accessed on or off campus.

On Campus Access

In Britannica when you are viewing an article, the URL in your browser address bar is a durable link, so you can just grab it to share the article on campus.

Off Campus Access

To provide off campus access, you'll need to add a prefix in front of the link so that COM students, faculty and staff can login with their COM account to see the article.

1. Grab the URL from the address bar of your browser.
2. If you want to make the resource accessible off campus (users will need to have a COM account to log in), add the EZProxy prefix directly in front of the bookmark URL with no spaces:  https://comlib.idm.oclc.org/login?url=

A link accessible off campus should look like this:

https://comlib.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/111233

Try the Live Links

Email an article with the email tool. This will email a link to the article or other resource that can be used on campus.

1. Click share icon above your article at the top of the page.
2. Choose Email (launches email form) or Microsoft Teams (launches Teams options).