SCoRE – Searchable Company Reports

I was surprised to read on this Web site that in the UK there is no legal deposit requirement for company annual reports. There are collections of annual reports at many academic institutions that have business schools and at many public library business departments. The purpose of the SCoRe (Searchable Company Reports) project is to provide an online database of holdings and collections of company reports in UK libraries.

The ScoRe Web site has come about through a project funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme, entitled “Company annual reports: assuring the distributed national print archive”. The audiences identified by...