Collection Policies
Digital submissions must comply with National Transportation Library Collection Development and Maintenance Policy link here.
- NTL collects across all modes of transportation and related disciplines
- Sources of materials include USDOT, state DOTs, local and tribal road agencies, university transportation agencies, and other transportation organizations
- Legacy content is collected if it is of historical or national significance
- Submissions must be 508 compliant to the greatest extent possible, any items requiring remediation will be returned to submitter. For more information, go to Accessibility: NTL Section 508 Accessibility Guide to Digital Submissions link here. Please note, SPR funded reports that are not 508 compliant will be archived but not published.
- NTL does not archive external websites in ROSA P
NTL acquires the following types of digital works:
- Digital objects provided by the content creators or owners (a digital object is a unit of information, usually a file)
- Digital copies of physical objects, digitized at the request of NTL
For a complete list of acceptable file formats, go to Submitting Content link here. Acceptable formats include:
- Text
- Dataset
- Image
- Multimedia
- Maps
- Metadata
- Collections