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It is over 35 characters long, but as I recall, EBSCO assisted with creating the custom link to begin with. Ebook Central is a consortia based sub for us and they told us to work with EBSCO to make things happen on the Discovery end. That was several years
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I'll ask EBSCO for suggestions, I don't want to break it entirely.</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#1F497D">How long is the Link Text for your custom link? A number of libraries have reported similar issues. If the link text has more than 35 characters, EBSCO is replacing it with stock text, as
described on this Q&A page </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/CustomLinks-Frequently-Asked-Questions?language=en_US" originalsrc="https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/CustomLinks-Frequently-Asked-Questions?language=en_US">https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/CustomLinks-Frequently-Asked-Questions?language=en_US</a>
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Miller Nichols Library </span></p>
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Kansas City, MO 64110</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">My library uses EBSCO Discovery service, and we have both EBSCO's ebook collections and Ebook Central collections. Ebook Central listings are included in Discovery.</span></p>
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