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Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)

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“The Tech­ni­cal Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) project was estab­lished by the Greater West­ern Library Alliance (GWLA) to dig­i­tize and pre­serve fed­eral tech­ni­cal reports, par­tic­u­larly those pro­duced before 1976. We define fed­eral tech­ni­cal reports as mate­r­ial that is pri­mar­ily of a sci­en­tific or tech­ni­cal nature issued by agen­cies of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment. The dig­i­tized reports will be freely avail­able in a search­able elec­tronic archive. It is our belief that unfet­tered access to this mate­r­ial will facil­i­tate sci­en­tific progress. For more infor­ma­tion, visit: http://trail.gwla.org/”

From
Mike Cul­bert­son 
Engi­neer­ing Librarian
Col­orado State Uni­ver­sity Libraries
(Email received through Amer­i­can Libraries Assoc., Sci-Tech Section)

P.S.  What reports should be dig­i­tized?  Reply to : http://trailproject.blogspot.com/

Technical Report & Image Library — TRAIL

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I just learned of this data­base of tech­ni­cal reports housed at Manoa, Univ. of Hawaii, via the Chem­i­cal Infor­ma­tion List­serv — from the Univ. of Arkansas’ Engi­neer­ing and Math Librarian.

“TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library: a col­lab­o­ra­tive project to dig­i­tize, archive, and pro­vide per­sis­tent and unre­stricted access to fed­eral tech­ni­cal reports issued prior to 1975.”

Actu­ally, they have reports from much later than 1975.  Brows­ing is available, as well as detailed search functionality.

STATISTICS:

  • Total reports in data­base: 1052
  • Total full­texts in data­base: 330
  • Total images in data­base: 946

Orga­ni­za­tions Involved:
The Greater West­ern Library Alliance (GWLA — www.gwla.org) and the Cen­ter for Research Libraries (CRL — www.crl.edu) are col­lab­o­rat­ing on a pilot project.

These are picked up by Google, not (nec­es­sar­ily?)  Google Scholar, and not by Scirus. Sco­pus and  U.S. Gov­ern­ment data­bases will pick up (index) the reports, but prob­a­bly won’t link to the full texts.

NTIS offers RSS feeds by subject categories

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Cur­rently the National Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion Ser­vice Bib­li­o­graphic Data­base includes records on over 2.8 mil­lion sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal reports arranged by major sub­ject cat­e­gories. The NTIS  has now made avail­able RSS Feeds by Sub­ject Cat­e­gory: Fol­low the RSS Feeds link at ntis.gov to get started. Energy is one of the cat­e­gories, for example.

“NTIS val­ues its recog­ni­tion by the tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion com­mu­nity, libraries, and par­tic­i­pat­ing Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment agen­cies as the leader in pro­vid­ing must-have U.S. Gov­ern­ment tech­ni­cal con­tent. To this end, NTIS will always strive to acquire, index, abstract, and archive the largest col­lec­tion of Government-sponsored tech­ni­cal reports in existence.”

The Octo­ber 2008 issue of the NTIS Tech­ni­cal Reports Newslet­ter is now avail­able online from http://www.ntis.gov/pdf/ntrnews4.pdf.  To sub­scribe to the free Newslet­ter, just send an email with your name and email address to .

Source, the Octo­ber NTIS Tech­ni­cal Reports Newsletter

Science.gov now provides 200 million pages

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Science.gov is a free, inte­grated single-search gate­way to reli­able sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy infor­ma­tion from 17 orga­ni­za­tions within 13 fed­eral sci­ence agen­cies. In this new 5.0 ver­sion,  launched on Sept. 15th, there are 7 addi­tional por­tals or data­bases that quadru­ple its content.  New con­tent includes patents, tox­i­col­ogy data, e-prints from the Dept. of Energy and OSTI, and jour­nal archives from PubMed Cen­tral, and Cancer.gov.

The search engine is improved with clus­ter­ing tech­nol­ogy, and Science.gov now pro­vides links to sci­ence news, the EurekAlert! and Wikipedia. 

“Science.gov is hosted by DOE’s Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (OSTI), within DOE’s Office of Sci­ence. In addi­tion to DOE, Science.gov is sup­ported by con­tribut­ing mem­bers of the Science.gov Alliance, includ­ing the Depart­ments of Agri­cul­ture, Com­merce, Defense, Edu­ca­tion, Health and Human Ser­vices, and the Inte­rior, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, the Gov­ern­ment Print­ing Office, the Library of Con­gress, the National Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion and the National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, with sup­port from the National Archives and Records Administration.”

From Tim Byrne at osti/gov