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A technical report is "an important means of communication for recording both the activities and the results of progress and research in the fields of science and technology. Where once reports were simply the reporting of government-sponsored research, they are now used as a means of communicating information for technical development throughout the world." [Report Series Codes Dictionary, 3rd edition, 1986]
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National Technical Information Service (NTIS) - NTIS is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and is responsible for storing and disseminating technical reports generated from U.S. government-sponsored work.
The database includes millions of unclassified DoD, DoE, NASA reports from 1964+ (with information as far back as 1899). | NTIS reports can be searched in two ways: 1. You can search NTIS's site for citations from
1964 to the present. The search engine isn't great so look at the very helpful HELP page first. 2. It's better to search from 1982 to the present on the library's version of the NTIS database: To get a full report: Go to the Government Publications Library on A Level (410-516-8360), and ask at the reference desk to have an NTIS report ordered for you. This service is free of charge. | | Science.gov | 50 million pages of science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results. | | "Science Accelerator" | This is the Department of Energy's (DOE) database, and it includes R&D results (recent and historical), descriptions of federal projects, relevant patents, and more. Or, you can search individual databases within Science Accelerator: - Information Bridge (mostly 1994+) R&D reports documents and citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission
| | WorldWideScience.org | This web site, which includes the information within Science.gov, is a gateway to national and international scientific databases. You can search 24 resources from 17 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Uk, and U.S. |
The Virtual Technical Reports Center | Maintained by the University of Maryland. (Beware -- many of these links are inactive.) | U.S. Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI) | OSTI is responsible for leading DOE's Technical Information Management Program (TIMP) and for helping to disseminate scientific and technical information from DOE research and development programs. | | MAGiC (Managing Access to Grey Literature Collections) | MAGiC gives links to tech report sites in the US, UK, and elsewhere. (This site is managed by Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, UK.) | Public STINET
(Public Scientific and Technical Information Network) | This free database provides access to citations and some full text of unclassified documents in the collection of DTIC (Defense Technical Information Service). Also included are - Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
- Staff College Automated Military Periodical Index
- DoD Index to Specifications and Standards
- Research and Development Descriptive Summaries
| | | Los Alamos Technical Reports site | In 2002, the Los Alamos National Laboratory terminated public access to thousands of unclassified reports on nuclear science and technology. Fortunately, almost all of the withdrawn reports were acquired and preserved so that the public has access to them. | | TRAIL (Technical Report Archive and Image Library) | National Bureau of Standards (NBS) -- This site has most of the NBS Monograph Series, published between 1959 and 1982.
These detailed reports include materials data, mathematical functions, time series, diffraction patterns, measurements, standards, and much more. Most of the data provided are from direct measurements.
This series of technical reports is highly referenced with 2,000+ citations in Web of Science. The National Bureau of Standards is now NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
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Last revised: March 20, 2008 |
