[DCRM-L] Standard Citation form for Online resources

[Auyong, Dorothy]

I know this discussion has circulated before, but barring access to the long awaited Standards Citation Forms update, I have to throw myself on the collective memory/wisdom of the list.

What is the current preferred qualifier for citing online bibliographic databases?

Early proposals suggested "(WWW)" (or is lower case "www" preferred?) but that seems dated to me now.  I think "(online)" was also proposed.

Also if a resource ONLY exists online (such as VIAF, or the ESTC) do we need to specify that we accessed it online?

E.g.

VD-16 vs.
VD-16 (online)

to distinguish the print version from online version

vs. VD-17 which only exists online.  Should it be qualified as an online only resource?  That seems redundant.

Thank you.

Dorothy Auyong
Principal Rare Book Cataloger
Henry E. Huntington Library
dauyong at huntington.org

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