TRAIL Welcomes 51st and 52nd Members

Magnetite and Ilmenite Resources, Iron Mountain Area, Albany County, Wyoming, 1961, digitized by TRAIL

Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Contact: 
Judy Alspach - jalspach@crl.edu
Program: 

The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) welcomes new members Syracuse University and The Ohio State University. Ohio State and Syracuse join a growing list of members, which includes Colorado School of Mines, University of Iowa, and Princeton University.

TRAIL’s mission is to identify, acquire, catalog, digitize, and provide unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports. TRAIL, one of the Center for Research Libraries' Global Resources Programs, works collaboratively with institutions and other organizations committed to increasing access to science and technology literature across disciplines. Over the past 12 years, nearly 84,000 technical reports have been digitized and made openly available on the TRAIL Search Interface, with more being made available daily. TRAIL is grateful for the support of its members, who recognize that it takes a national grassroots effort to ensure that these important resources are made openly available for research.

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