National Reports Collection

The National Reports Collection at the British Library is a collection of published annual reports, technical reports and other publications from private and public sector organisations. It forms part of the British Library's gray literature holdings.{{cite book|author=J. H. Bowman|title=British Librarianship and Information Work 1991-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yKousnrk2hEC&pg=PA6|access-date=10 September 2012|year=2006|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-4779-9|pages=6–7}} The collection adds approximately 17,000 works every year from more than 4,000 sources. Between 1980 and 1998, it collected 182,000 documents.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/collection/reports/british/index.html|title=British reports - the National Reports Collection|publisher=British Library}}

Increasing the availability of reports in the collection forms part of research being done by the MAGiC Project at Cranfield University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.magic.ac.uk/about/aims.html|title=Aims and objectives|work=MAGiC Project|publisher=Cranfield University|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611235115/http://www.magic.ac.uk/about/aims.html|archive-date=2007-06-11}}