Portal Use
Montana History Portal - Tagging and Recollections
This guide will explain how to tag objects and use Recollections in the Montana History Portal. What are tags and recollections? Tags and recollections are features that allow users to engage with the digital objects in the Montana History Portal ...
Montana History Portal - Ordering Reproductions
To make it easier for searchers some organizations have opted to share contact information for reproduction requests on the Portal site. The Montana History Portal does not hold the reproduction rights or hold the authority to decide on the rights ...
Asking for permission to use or reuse Portal resources
Each contributing organization has identified copyright for the items in their collections. Find the copyright status for a particular item by clicking into the item page and looking to the left. The copyright section is a guide to the use and ...
Searching for an Item in a Collection
Content on the Montana History Portal website is organized in collections. For example, yearbooks from Billings Senior High School are all consolidated under a collection called “Billings Senior High School Yearbooks.” We have nearly 200 collections ...
Montana History Portal - Adding Items to a Personal Collection
Personal Collections are a great way to organize and save your research on the Montana History Portal. You can add items to a collection, and organize multiple collections to cover a variety of topics. Any time you log back into the site, your items ...
Montana History Portal - Citing Sources
With the exception of entire collections and contributors all item types within the Portal can be cited on a computer. The mobile version of this site does not offer the citation feature. These citations are in APA format and are generated ...
Searching in the Montana History Portal
1. Searching within the Portal Search from the home page The front page of the Portal offers two ways to begin a search. It can begin from the sidebar or the homepage. The first example will search from the home page. This example searches the term ...
Using the Montana History Portal site: Access and initial set up
Anyone can access the Montana History Portal site at https://www.mtmemory.org/. Anyone can access the Montana History Portal site at https://www.mtmemory.org/. The Basics: On the landing page there are navigational options along the left-hand side of ...