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'''Technical Report Archive & Image Library''' ('''TRAIL''') is a national collaborative project initiated by the University of Arizona and the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). It is now part of the Global Resources Network of the [[Center for Research Libraries]] (CRL), in cooperation with more than 50 partner institutions and personal members.<ref>{{cite web |title=Advancing Your Search: An Interview with Maliaca Oxnam |website=Engineering Information |date=August 2009 |url=http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bEEI001/mECMDQ8/uJQ0Q4/xJEMMQ8 |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224091436/http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bEEI001/mECMDQ8/uJQ0Q4/xJEMMQ8 |archive-date=December 24, 2013}}</ref><ref name="expands1">{{cite web |title=TRAIL Expands Coverage and Welcomes Personal Members |date=June 1, 2015 |url=http://www.crl.edu/news/trail-expands-coverage-and-welcomes-personal-members |website=Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613052149/http://www.crl.edu/news/trail-expands-coverage-and-welcomes-personal-members |archive-date=June 13, 2015}}</ref> TRAIL's purpose is to digitize, preserve, and make openly available [[technical report]]s published by agencies of the United States government (initially limited to those before 1975, but expanded in 2015 to remove the date restriction).<ref>{{cite web |title=New TRAIL Database Gives Life to Historic Literature |url=http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?p=1556 |website=Jeffline |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224160000/http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?p=1556 |archive-date=December 24, 2013}}</ref><ref name="expands1"/> Technical reports often contain detailed information not published elsewhere, but can be difficult to find.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Sare | first1 = Laura | year = 2011 | title = Availability of Legacy Government Documents Online | doi = 10.1080/10875301.2011.582824 | journal = Internet Reference Services Quarterly | volume = 16 | issue = 1–2| pages = 55–66 | s2cid = 58115321 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=TRAIL: Technical Reports Archives and Image Library |url=https://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2008/11/trail-technical-reports-archives-and.html |date=November 17, 2008 |website=Reference Notes |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315215658/http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2008/11/trail-technical-reports-archives-and.html |archive-date=March 15, 2012}}</ref>

From 2012 to 2019, the collection grew from 28,000 to more than 80,000 reports.<ref>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</ref><ref>Mel DeSart. "TRAIL: the Technical Report Archive and Image Library" TRAIL: the Technical Report Archive and Image Library</ref> Material is currently available from a number of current and former United States government agencies, including report series from the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]], [[United States Bureau of Mines|Bureau of Mines]], [[National Bureau of Standards]], and [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]].<ref name="list1">{{cite web |website=Center for Research Libraries |title=Series List |url=http://www.crl.edu/grn/trail/current-activities/series-list |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614210452/http://www.crl.edu/grn/trail/current-activities/series-list |archive-date=June 14, 2022}}</ref>

==History==
TRAIL started as a pilot project to [[digitize]], preserve and make accessible a small collection of [[government agency]] technical reports, both as [[proof of concept]] and to work through technical and logistical issues. The [[University of Arizona]] submitted a proposal to Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) for a technical report digitization pilot and received funding in early 2006 to begin the project in collaboration with CRL.<ref>{{cite web |first=Daureen |last=Nesdill |title=How the Agility of Librarians Led to the Development of TRAIL |publisher=University of Utah |url=https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/SLAContributedPaper-Nesdill-2012.pdf |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124041611/https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/SLAContributedPaper-Nesdill-2012.pdf |archive-date=January 24, 2022}}</ref> Led by Maliaca Oxnam of the University of Arizona, the GWLA/CRL Federal Technical Reports Task Force created the appropriate [[metadata]] schema, established a pilot search interface at the University of Hawaii and scanned the first complete series, the Monograph Series of the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology|National Bureau of Standards]].<ref>"Providing OA to pre-1975 govt tech reports", Open Access News. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006/12/providing-oa-to-pre-1975-govt-tech.html</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nesdill |first1=Daureen |last2=Sare |first2=Laura |last3=Trussell |first3=Alice |last4=Von Seggern |first4=Marilyn |date=2016 |title=Ten Years of TRAIL |journal=DTTP |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=14–18 |doi=10.5860/dttp.v44i2.6070 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

TRAIL is now part of the Global Resource Network (GRN) within CRL.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crl.edu/grn/trail/about-trail/history-trail|title=History of TRAIL | CRL}}</ref>

==Digitized series==
The list of digitized series<ref name="list1"/> also includes decisions on series not digitized or considered. Decisions are current and subject to future reviews.

Completely digitized series include:
*[[National Bureau of Standards]] Applied Mathematic Series
*National Bureau of Standards Building Materials and Structures Reports (C 13.9:)
*National Bureau of Standard Building Science Series
*[[United States Bureau of Mines]] Economic Papers
*United States Bureau of Mines Mineral Issues
*United States Bureau of Mines Miners' Circular
*United States Bureau of Mines Technical Progress Reports

Many other series are in progress, for example:
*[[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey]] United States Earthquakes [1928–62] [1963-68] (C 4.25/2:)
*[[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]] Aircraft Circulars
*[[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]] Technical Papers

==Access==
The search interface<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.technicalreports.org/trail/search/|title=TRAIL - Technical Report Archive and Image Library - Search}}</ref> is hosted by the University of Washington and searches all TRAIL content found at [[HathiTrust]] and [[UNT]].

==Awards==
2012

* John B. Phillips won GODORT's James Bennett Childs Award and his involvement with TRAIL was mentioned among his contributions to the field.<ref>"Announcing the 2012 GODORT Awards Winners" http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2012-award-winners</ref>
* Maliaca Oxnam won the Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award for creating, crafting, and successfully launching the TRAIL project among her other professional achievements.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/englib/eld/awards.php#homer|title = ASEE Engineering Libraries Division – Promoting the role of the library as an integral part of engineering education}}</ref>
* Maliaca Oxnam won the first annual [[Elsevier]] Library Connect Charleston Conference Award for first time presenters. Oxnam presented on TRAIL at the 2012 Charleston Conference at a session entitled "Moving Technical Reports Forward: New Roles for Libraries & Librarians".<ref>"Maliaca Oxnam wins 2012 Library Connect Charleston Conference Award" http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/supporting-users-organizations/2012-10/maliaca-oxnam-wins-2012-library-connect-charleston</ref>

2011

* Tim Byrne won the American Library Association GODORT's James Bennett Childs Award and his involvement with TRAIL was mentioned among his contributions to the field.<ref>{{cite web |title=2011 GODORT Awards Winners |url=http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2011-award-winners |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612220328/http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2011-award-winners |archive-date=June 12, 2020}}</ref>

2010

* Maliaca Oxnam was honored with the University of Arizona Outstanding University Achievement Award "...for her leadership of the Libraries' TRAIL, or Technical Report Archive & Image Library, Project."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lqp.arizona.edu/node/2355 |title=Oxnam Honored With Outstanding University Achievement Award |last=Blue |first=Alexis |website=The University of Arizona |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429053440/http://lqp.arizona.edu/node/2355 |archive-date=April 29, 2011}}</ref>
* Maliaca Oxnam won the LexisNexis/GODORT/[[American Library Association|ALA]] Documents to the People Award for her role in directing TRAIL.<ref>{{cite web |title=2010 GODORT Awards Winners |url=http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2010-award-winners |website=GODORT |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612220215/http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2010-award-winners |archive-date=June 12, 2020}}</ref>

==Member institutions==
[[Arizona State University]] / [[University of Arizona]] / [[University of Arkansas]] / [[Baylor University]] / [[California Institute of Technology]] / [[University of California, Berkeley]] / [[University of California, Los Angeles]] / [[University of California, Riverside]] / [[University of California, San Diego]] / [[University of Cincinnati]] / [[Colorado School of Mines]] / [[University of Colorado]] / [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] / [[Harvard University]] / [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] / [[Indiana University]] / [[Iowa State University]] / [[University of Iowa]] / [[Johns Hopkins University]] / [[Kansas State University]] / [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] / [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] / [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] / [[University of Michigan]] / [[University of Nevada, Las Vegas]] / [[University of New Hampshire]] / [[University of New Mexico]] / [[New York University]] / [[University of North Texas]] / [[Northwestern University]] / [[University of Notre Dame]] / [[Ohio State University]] / [[Oklahoma State University]] / [[Oregon State University]] / [[University of Oregon]] / [[University of Pennsylvania]] / [[Pennsylvania State University]] / [[Princeton University]] / [[Purdue University]] / [[Rice University]] / [[Stanford University]] / [[Syracuse University]] / [[University of Texas at Austin]] / [[Texas A & M University]] / [[Texas Tech University]] / [[University of Texas at San Antonio]] / [[United States Government Publishing Office]] / [[Utah State University]] / [[Virginia Tech]] / [[Washington State University]] / [[University of Washington]] / [[University of Wisconsin]] / [[University of Wyoming]] / [[Yale University]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.technicalreports.org/trail/search/ Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) search](searches TRAIL content at HathiTrust and UNT)
*[http://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust Digital Library]
*[https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections UNT Digital Library]
*[http://www.gwla.org/ Greater Western Library Alliance]
*[http://traildb.library.arizona.edu/collections TRAIL Collection Processing Database]
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