Computer Science Technical Reports Archive Sites

Here is my list of sites that appear to distribute technical reports. It is not very complete or up to date, but I would appreciate any input anyone can give me to make this list more useful. I would like to thank everyone who has sent in their site's techreports archives (keep them coming). In particular, I want to thank the following people for sending me their personal lists:

• Natalie Sipes <sipes@cs.unc.edu>
• Bob Krovetz <krovetz@hobart.cs.umass.edu>
• Ralph Berg <ralph@first.gmd.de>
• Alf-Christian Achilles <achilles@ira.uka.de>
• Richard Clayton <clayton@cc.gatech.edu>

Thank you also to the Department of Robotics and Digital Technology here at Monash University, who are supplying the disk space and CPU power for the archives.

Some changes have been made to the archive format for the posted version. The 'email' field has been changed to 'mail server' to reduce confusion about what this field was for. Several new fields have been introduced, namely 'http', 'wais' and 'gopher'. If you know of sites that are in the list, and also have their data available by http, wais or gopher, please let me know, and I will add them. Also, if you know of sites that only make their data available by http, wais or gopher (and as such, wouldn't have been in the list), also let me know. In fact, let me know if you know of anything not on this list that should be :-). Since the site data is one-off, and fairly low volume compared to the abstracts list, just send it to me in any form that's convenient.

Please feel free to send feedback about these changes. If you are not already reading this file via the World Wide Web, you can now access it with the url: "http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/tr/siteslist.html". The next step is to get the abstracts lists linked to the sites list (and vice-versa) via the World Wide Web.

There are now over 280 sites in the sites list.

Time to keep this project going is getting more and more scarce. I haven't done a proactive update of either the sites list or the abstracts database for a long time. I'm still making time to update the lists when people send me data, though. If anyone has any ideas about how I can distribute the load, or any volunteers, I'd love to hear from you. I suspect eventually, I'll have to give the project to someone else completely, though after putting so much work into it, I'd like to avoid that if I can.

I have put together an archive of University technical reports (abstracts and title lists, not the reports). If you have any lists or abstracts of University techreports (or other Research type papers) I would love to hear from you. I have now collected information for over 10,000 technical reports. Over 2,300 of these reports have full abstracts.

You can access the archive via WAIS with the database cs-techreport-abstracts.

If you are willing to put your data in the form I use in my database, as specified in:

daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au:/pub/techreports/reports/README

I have available most of the archive I am currently working on. To access this, anonymous ftp to daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au, and look in the directory pub/techreports. Any comments, questions, etc to me.

Please don't mail to these people (or me) asking for technical reports that are not on this list or "some information about the blah-blah-blah discipline." We do what we can to make reports available. If it's not on this list, then I probably don't have any information on it.

For all ftp sites, unless noted otherwise, log in as anonymous, or ftp and give your email address as the password.