Library Digital Collections

This guide provides Digital Library Collections tutorials, data, scourse-specific IIIF guides and other digitized primary resources information.

Generated Citation?

It is possible to use a citation generator, but it'd be better to check the accuracy of citations generated for digitized primary resources.

Archival information can present challenges to automatic citation generators as they are often not coded to deal with this information correctly.

The Chicago Manual of Style Online 17th edition does not require a particular order of elements and is often a good citation style for archival, manuscript, or photograph collections, however, the citations should be consistent in their order.

Bibliographic Management (include citation and bibliography generation)

In addition to primary resources such as books and journal articles found online and in print, digitized primary resources and institutional repositories offer content for retrieval. It is useful for researchers to organize and customize their retrieved references. The following is a selection of research management products to aid this effort, but their generated citations for digitized primary resources may need additional information.