Technical Reports

NTIS (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) indexes approximately two million records.  Dates of coverage: 1964+
Documents might be available through the Interlibrary Loan process.  You may find one of the following databases useful in identifying pertinent information about the documents you seek.

• Search NTIS Web Site - searches the entire NTIS Web site containing references to 450,000 technical publications, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual material added to the NTIS collection. Dates of coverage: 1990+ 
• Government Reports Announcements & Index provides print citations for NTIS documents and is available in the UCF Library at INDEX Q180.U5 T712. Dates of coverage: 1955-1996
• NTIS/GPO Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific (DARTS) - As a federal depository library, the UCF Library can retrieve some NTIS documents for users. Ask at the Reference Desk for assistance.

GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research & development projects. Collections include:

• Scientific & Technical Information Network (Defense Technical Information Center) provides unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added into DTIC from late December 1974 to present. Includes some full-text documents.
• DOE Information Bridge includes the full-text and bibliographic records of DOE-sponsored report literature produced by the Department of Energy and DOE contractor research and development community. This vast collection includes over 65,000 reports that have been received and processed by OSTI since January 1995. 
• National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS) provides over 10,000 full text, online EPA documents.
• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Technical Reports provides over 12,500 full text, online reports covering propulsion, deep space developments, & robotic missions from 1992 to present.
• NASA Langley Technical Reports provides over 2,500 full text, online reports covering aeronautical & space science from 1960 to present. (see also: NASA Technical Reports Server below)

Science Conferences provides a simultaneous search interface for scientific and technical conference proceedings or papers from:

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

• American Chemical Society (ACS)

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

• American Institute of Physics (AIP)

• American Meteorological Society (AMS)

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

• Energy Citations Database (ECD)

• Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

• National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

• National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC)

• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

arXiv.org (Cornell Univ) provides open access to over 350,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.

Contrails (Illinois Institute of Technology) seeks to digitize the technical history of the first century of powered human flight, including any government published resources that contribute to this history, including technical reports published by the Wright Air Development Center, it's successors, and other agencies.

Energy Citations Database contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.  The print index, Energy Research Abstracts, is available in the UCF Library covering 1976-1995 [Index TJ163.2.U55].

Mote Marine Laboratory Technical Reports - The Arthur Vining Davis Library at Mote Marine Laboratory (Sarasota, FL) is a research library whose collections, resources and services are developed and maintained for the support of marine research and education.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (1977+)

NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program helps you find NASA aero-space STI, as well as locate domestic and international STI pertinent to NASA's missions and Strategic Enterprises.

NASA Technical Reports Server - The NTRS collects scientific and technical information from NASA's technical report servers and non-NASA sites.

NACA Technical Reports Server provides full text reports (1917-1958) from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).  The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 created NASA from NACA.

Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL) (pronounced "ancestral") is an international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for non-commercial and educational use.

SciTechResources.gov provides access to web portals & gateways, R&D publications, studies and current research.

Technical Reports (Univ of Colorado at Boulder) provides links for Dept of Defense (DoD), Dept of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Geological Survey, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), National Academy Press Reading Room, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and Office of Technology Assessment (OTA).

Technical Reports & Papers (Cornell Univ) makes available papers and technical reports from a variety of different disciplines: Computer Science (1968-present), Theory Center (1986-present), History and Theory of Machines & Mechanisms (2002-present), Library Papers & Preprints (2003-present), and Watershed Management (2004-present).

TRIS Online (Transportation Research Board) - The Transportation Research Information Services database provides more than 400,000 bibliographic records covering transportation research published in books, journal articles, technical reports and other media; coverage of Federal, state, local and association publications; coverage of the literature from the 1960s to the present, with some coverage of prior years; selected links to full text or sources of full text; links to the IRRD database for further coverage of international transportation; searching capability by author, title, subject.

See also: DOT On-Line Publications (U.S. Dept of Transportation)

Virtual Technical Reports Center (Univ of Maryland) - The Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web. Because many institutions do not distinguish between technical reports and other types of research publications, this site also contains links to preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds.

Looking for something else? Ask for assistance at the UCF Library's Reference Desk.

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Prepared by:  Rich Gause, Government Documents Librarian
URL of this page: http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/techrep.asp

Last update:06/03/09 02:57:32 PM