Many online journal articles are assigned a unique number called a Digital Object Identifier. The DOI can act as a permanent link to the article so is a great way to track these articles down easily. The DOI will bring you to the home address of the article. This may not be where you can access the full text of the article. To see if the library has full-text access to the article, you can search the DOI in the library search box.
Not all articles will have a DOI.
How do you find an article's DOI?
DOIs are commonly found in article records near other citation information (title, author, date of publication, source, etc.), or on the first page of the article itself.
e.g. Here's a record from a database that clearly shows this article's DOI as a full URL:
And here's an example of a DOI found in the footer of the same article's first page.
Some articles will only provide the DOI without the rest of the URL (e.g. 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1444716), but these can be resolved by adding https://doi.org/ in front. e.g. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2024.1444716.
Can't find a DOI? If you don't see one then it's fair to assume your article doesn't have one. If you need to cite an article without a DOI, the library has examples for both MLA and APA style.