SCoRe becomes a company reports resource of national importance with its
latest partner the City Business Library
http://www.score.ac.uk
SCoRe is the national union catalogue of company report holdings. It
already includes the major collections held at the British Library,
London Business School, Manchester Business School, University of
Strathclyde and University of Warwick.
We are delighted to include the holdings of the City Business Library,
Corporation of London, which has the country’s largest collection of
current UK company reports, aiming to cover annual reports for all
quoted companies with a registered office in the UK. SCoRe now lists
over 192,000 reports for more than 18,000 companies, the earliest of
which date back to the 19th century.
About SCoRe
‘Company annual reports: assuring the distributed national print
archive’ was a Research Support Libraries Programme funded project. The
project partners were: London Business School Library (lead
institution), Manchester Business School Library, Strathclyde University
Library, Warwick University Library, the British Library and Guildhall
Library.
Why such a project?
There is no single, free repository of annual reports in the UK. Company
reports are not covered by legal deposit, so the British Library does
not hold a comprehensive national collection. Significant, historical
annual report collections are held by higher education libraries and by
national and larger public libraries. No single collection is in any way
comprehensive, but together these libraries provide a distributed
national archive.
What SCoRe offers
The site gives access to invaluable resources for:
- Researchers wishing to trace copies of company annual reports in
libraries
- Managers of company information collections in libraries
- Anyone interested in the future of these important information sources.
Further information is available on the SCoRe website. If you have any
queries or can assist us in taking forward our work, please contact
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Gillian Dwyer
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London Business School
Sussex Place, London NW1 4SA
Tel: +44(0)207 262 5050
Fax: +44(0)207 706 1897
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