Digitization of ICRC proceedings and WWW access using the NASA Astrophysics Data System

Since 1947, the International Cosmic Ray Conference has been held biennially with proceedings published. No repository library in the world holds a complete set of these proceedings. The digitization of this series and its availability over the worldwide web would be of great benefit to the cosmic ray community. The University of Sheffield has a collection of 84% of the proceedings between 1959 and 1997 which are being donated to the NASA Astrophysics Data System for digitization prior to being made available online. The current status of this project will be presented and an appeal for missing volumes will be made.