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.