What is Perma CC?
Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.
When a user creates a Perma.cc link, Perma.cc archives the referenced content and generates a link to an archived record of the page. Regardless of what may happen to the source, the archived record will always be available through Perma.cc link. As such, it allows authors and student editors to feel much more confident about citing electronic sources.
Links should only be created for web resources that don't have a stable or durable URL (websites, blogs, working papers etc.)
Getting Started
Lakehead University is a Perma.cc Registrar partner. This means that Lakehead faculty can create a Perma.cc account with unlimited links.
- To create an individual account, login to https://perma.cc/sign-up and use your Lakehead email credentials.
- Once you have created your account, please get in touch with Debra Gold at dgold@lakeheadu.ca, and your account will be added to the Perma CC institutional account.
Once you have created an account and it has been added to the university’s institutional account, you are ready to create Perms cc. links.
Just so you know, anyone can create a free account, which allows up to 10 links per month.
How to create a Perma link?
1 .Login to your Perma.cc account.
2. Paste or type the URL of the page you wish to preserve.
Select your affiliated folder - please note that you can file it in a personal folder, which will be private, or in an institutional folder, which will be visible to all Lakehead Perma.cc account holders.
Click the "Create Perma Link" button.
Example of a Perma.cc record
Please note that you can also add perma links using the Browser extension (Chrome or Firefox) or the Bookmarklet.
- In the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (McGill Guide, 10th Edition) under Rule 6.18.1, the archived URL should be in square brackets and follow the general URL for the site. Please check the guide.
F. Tim Knight, “A Model Open Access Journal Publication Agreement” (10 July 2017), online (blog): SLAW <www.slaw.ca/2017/07/10/a-model- open-access-journalpublication-agreement/> [perma.cc/GJ9M-T6GM].
- The 21st Edition of The Bluebook provides guidance on how to include Perma links in citations. Specifically, Rule 18.2.1(d) instructs to “append the archive URL to the full citation in brackets,” with the following example:
Letter from Rose M. Oswald Poels, President/CEO, Wis. Bankers Ass’n, to Elizabeth M. Murphy, Sec’y, SEC (Sept. 17, 2013), http://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-03-13/s70313-178.pdf [http://perma.cc/B7Z7D9DJ].