This used to be a listing of ftp sites holding technical reports in scientific computing. Better tools now exist, for example: Bibnet http://netlib.att.com/netlib/bibnet http://netlib.att.com/netlib/search.html UCSTRI http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cstr/search EPiCS http://fas.sfu.ca/1/projects/EPiCS/CS-TechReports WATERS http://www.cs.odu.edu/WATERS/WATERS-GS.html .