Technical Reports: Indexes and Databases

Free public access version of the NTIS database containing bibliographic information and summaries of scientific, technical, engineering, and business reports acquired by NTIS. Some full text is included. Coverage ranges from 1900 to the present.

A collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.

A searchable collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. Includes technical reports, technical papers, and research reports.

Citations and abstracts from conference proceedings, technical reports, trade publications book series, dissertations, and journals.

Provides access to citations for unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection. Includes full-text for selected documents.

Searches across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world, including journals, books, theses, dissertations, conference papers, preprints, and technical reports.

Technical reports are indexed in this print resource. Since the inception of the publication, the title has changed numerous times; library holdings are filed sequentially regardless of title changes.

Grey literature has been defined as "Information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body." (Luxembourg, 1997 - Expanded in New York, 2004) GreySource provides examples of grey literature and in so doing profiles organizations responsible for its production and/or processing. Only web-based resources that explicitly refer to the term grey literature (or its equivalent in any language) are listed. Resources appear within categories derived from the COSATI (American) and SIGLE (European) Classification Systems.

"The Technical Reports and Standards Unit (TRS) of the Library of Congress holds over 5 million current and historical technical reports and standards on microform, digital media and paper." Resources on their website can be used to identify and locate these materials.

Includes technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, software, and data information sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) through a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism from the 1940s to today. Some citations include links to full-text. Subjects covered include biology and medicine; chemistry; energy storage, conversion, and utilization; engineering; environmental sciences; fission and nuclear technologies; fossil fuels; geosciences; materials; mathematics and computing; national defense; physics; power generation and distribution; and renewable energy.

Billed as a gateway to federal science, the site "searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results." The content may consist of scientific or technical data, publications, databases, documentation, scientific user facilities, experts in scientific disciplines, or other forms of information.

Includes technical reports by the Waterways Experiment Station, Engineering Research and Development Center, and districts.

Similar to Science.gov, but on a global scale. The site is multilingual and multinational.

Contains scholarship on a wide range of topics in biological sciences, including biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, zoology, and aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. It indexes conference proceedings, technical reports, books, patents, government publications, and journals.

Covers the world-wide literature of chemistry including journal articles, patents, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, technical reports, government documents, etc.

Includes technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, software, and data information sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) through a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism from the 1940s to today. Some citations include links to full-text. Subjects covered include biology and medicine; chemistry; energy storage, conversion, and utilization; engineering; environmental sciences; fission and nuclear technologies; fossil fuels; geosciences; materials; mathematics and computing; national defense; physics; power generation and distribution; and renewable energy.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's electronic documents site is an ongoing project to digitize the EPA Library's collections. The database includes EPA reports from the 1960s to the present, available to download or to order print copies.

Scientific and technical reports, maps, inventories of environmental resources & endangered species, guides to environmental indicators, photographs, videos, slide shows and transcripts of presentations, and other resources from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, state and local agencies, research institutes, academic departments, non-profit and non-governmental organizations, web documents, and other providers.

Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications.

"A web application managed by the USGS Library that manages information about and provides access to publications written by USGS authors. It does not store the publications themselves, but links to other systems inside and outside the USGS that hold the actual publication files. Each publication has its own descriptive citation page that is dynamically generated based on information stored in a database."

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Technical Reports Server provides access to NASA metadata records, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information included are conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA." "Integrates the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and NASA collections. The NACA collection includes reports from 1900 to 1958 and the NASA collection includes documents created or sponsored by NASA starting in 1958 and continuing to the present." Some content is restricted.

The Transportation Research Information Database (TRID) "is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database."