GWLA & CRL - Digitization of government technical reports

The Greater Western Library Alliance has launched a pilot project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. The pilot database currently contains the National Bureau of Standards Monograph Series and reports of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

Digitization, metadata production and hosting are being undertaken under the auspices of GWLA. CRL's role in this pilot will be to ensure that the project is designed to result in persistent and sustainable resources. To that end we at CRL will work with GWLA to ensure that selection of the reports for digitization avoids duplication of, and to the extent possible is coordinated with, other widely supported efforts, such as those of Google, ARL, Open Content Alliance, the Government Printing Office, and the government agencies themselves. We will work with GWLA, moreover, to help identify viable platforms for hosting and providing access to the materials digitized and to develop a funding plan that will sustain the effort for the long term.