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Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL)

Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) is a project of the University of Arizona and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), along with more than 50 partner institutions [1], to digitize, preserve, and make available to the public technical reports published before 1976 by agencies of the United States government.[2][3] Technical reports often contain detailed information not published elsewhere, but can be hard to find. [4]

As of March 2012, the collection includes more than 28,000 reports.[5] Currently available report series include [United States Atomic Energy Commission], Civil Effects Test Operations (AEC-CEX); [United States Atomic Energy Commission], Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research (AEC-LF); [United States Atomic Energy Commission], Health and Safety Laboratory (AEC-HASL); [United States Atomic Energy Commission], Radiation Instruments Branch (AEC-RIB); U.S. National Bureau of Standards, Monographs; and U.S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin. [6]

History of the Project

The University of Arizona received funding in 2006 from the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) to start the project in collaboration with CRL.[7]

In 2010, Maliaca Oxnam won American Library Association GODORT's Documents to the People Award for her role in directing TRAIL. [8]

References

  1. ^ "Advancing Your Search: An Interview with Maliaca Oxnam", Engineering Village Newletter, August 4, 2009, http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bEEI001/mECMDQ8/uJQ0Q4/xJEMMQ8
  2. ^ "New TRAIL Database Gives Life to Historic Literature" at http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?p=1556
  3. ^ "Digitizing makes government reports more available to public." PHYSorg.com. 7 Jan 2011. http://phys.org/news/2011-01-digitizing.html
  4. ^ Gerry McKiernan. "TRAIL: Technical Reports Archives and Image Library" at http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2008/11/trail-technical-reports-archives-and.html
  5. ^ Mel DeSart. "Blazing a TRAIL: A Shared Vision and Collaboration Lead to Digitization, Open Access and Preservation of U.S. Government Technical Reports" http://jlsc-pub.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=jlsc
  6. ^ Center for Research Libraries - TRAIL http://www.crl.edu/grn/trail
  7. ^ Daureen Nesdill "How the Agility of Librarians Led to the Development of TRAIL" http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/ContributedPapersTuesSessionDaureenNesdill.pdf
  8. ^ "Announcing the 2010 GODORT Awards Winners" http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Announcing_the_2010_GODORT_Awards_Winners


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