Technical Reports Website Registry

[Gerry Mckiernan]

            _ Technical Reports Website Registry _

   I am interested in knowing of any existing or planned  *central * registry of professional _society_ 
Technical Reports Web sites. [I am aware of NTIS, DTIC, NCSTRL and CoRR for computer science, the NASA and associated sites, and listings from a Yahoo  / GoTo /  Lycos / Snap / Google / Excite searches for 'Technical Reports']

   An example of a professional society technical
reports Web site is that of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) found at the following address

http://www.sme.org/cgi bin/storefront/search/T///SME/
   
   If such a registry does *not* exist, I am prepared to compile one over the course of our Fall semester as part of my formal duties as an engineering specialist here at Iowa State. [For such a project I'd begin by systematically reviewing the Web sites listed in the 
_Scholarly Societies Project_ compendium at

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html .

[Of course, I'd need a catchy title for such a _S_ociety _T_echnical _R_eports _W_ebsite registry. Any suggestions? How about STRAW {:-)]
 
  As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, critiques, queries, etc. etc. are Welcome!

/Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu