GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Technical Reports

Government Sites

Agricola (National Agricultural Library) – Provides access to records of articles, chapters, reports, and reprints, on all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines.

DOE Information Bridge (Dept. of Energy) - Sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and GPO, the Information Bridge provides bibliographic records and the full text of DOE sponsored scientific and technical information from January 1994.

Energy Citations Database  (Dept. of Energy) – This database was developed and designed by the United States Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). It contains citations from 1948 to the present.  Provides limited full-text availability and indexes books, articles, reports, and conference papers.

EPA Publications – Searches across the many publications sites within EPA’s overall site.  Includes full-text.

E-Print Network (Dept. of Energy) – Searches the deep web for E-prints on web sites and/or databases through a single search.

NACA Technical Reports Server (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) – Browse or search a database of  technical reports,  notes, and memoranda from 1917-1958.

NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) – Provides comprehensive access to the numerous NASA report archives.  The site provides some full-text coverage and indexes back to 1917.

NIST Virtual Library (National Institute of Standards and Technology) – NIST publications (or "pubs") includes scientific and technical documents that have been authored or co-authored by NIST employees or published by NIST.  Provides full-text documents back to 1997.

NTIS (National Technical Information Service) – A comprehensive resource for federally funded scientific, engineering, and business-related information.  The database provides some full-text access and indexes over two million publications back to 1964.

Science.gov - searches across the DOE, DOD, NASA and EPA databases,  plus many more government databases and websites.

Science Accelerator (OSTI)- Searches across collections of the DOE scientific and technical information, including the Information Bridge, Energy Citations Database, Science Conference Proceedings, DOepatents, E-print Network, Energy files, DOE R&D Project Summaries, Federal R&D Project Summaries, and DOE R&D Accomplishments.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports - STAR provides abstracts of aerospace-related reports from Government agencies, research institutions and industry worldwide, including reports on aeronautics, space, and supporting disciplines. This site provides .pdf files of of the index issues. Electronic access began in 1996.

STINET (Scientific Network and Information Network) – This site provides access to citations of unclassified defense research documents.  Many of the records are available in full-text and indexing coverage extends back to 1974.

STINET Multisearch – Provides the ability to search across up to 10 sci/tech databases simultaneously.

TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services) – The database provides access to nearly 500,000 records in transportation-related fields.  Sources include books and articles, along with some full-text research studies, technical reports, and conference papers.

U.S. Patent Database (USPTO) – Includes full image access to all U.S.-granted patents back to 1790, with full-text searching back to 1976.

Commercial and Educational Sites

CiteSeer: Scientific Literature Digital Library (NEC and IST) – Provides the full text of thousands of research articles.  The database also serves as a citation index showing who has cited whom.

MAGIC Project (The British Library) – A collaborative system for the collection, storage and utilization of engineering grey literature.

U.S. Government Information: Technical Reports (University of Colorado Libraries) – Provides an annotated listing of government agencies and resources related to technical reports.

Virtual Technical Reports Center (University of Maryland Libraries) – Offers a large listing of gray literature-producing institutions.  The Institutions listed provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web.

 

Web site content: Lorna Newman