From an E-Mail Note:
ACM SIGIR presents the first results of a project to digitize the older literature in the information retrieval field. So far 14 of the old reports, such as the Cranfield reports and the SMART reports have been scanned, along with Karen Sparck Jones’s Information Retrieval Experiment book. The PDF versions of these are available from the SIGIR Digital Museum of Information Retrieval Research at http://www.sigir.org/museum. The museum provides room for exhibits, and allows searching of the material using the PF/Tijah XML search system.
Source: ACM
