MAGiC Project
MAGiC Project
Keywords: Grey literature, Internet, Engineering
The MAGiC project (Managing Access to Grey Literature Collections) has announced the launch of its Web site at http://www.magic.ac.ukThe aim of MAGiC is to enhance awareness, access and utilisation of key collections of technical reports (grey literature) for the benefit of the UK engineering community.
In the UK, collections of engineering technical reports tend to be scattered across academia, government and industry. One of the early key tasks of MAGiC is to map the locations of these collections. To accomplish this help is needed from the engineering information community. A survey is available at http://www.magic.ac.uk/collection.htmlfor completion by anyone aware of a UK collection of engineering technical reports.
Other tasks being undertaken, in the early stages of the project, are an assessment of the use and value of engineering grey literature, and development of a collection analysis methodology to enable libraries and archives to identify the most important documents within a collection to prioritise material for digitisation.
Source: Paul A.S. Needham, MAGiC Research Assistant
