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. Coverage ranges from 1964 to the present. Advanced search options are not available.

A collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1976.

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

Technical reports, including those created prior to the 1964 starting date for the National Technical Reports Library, 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.

"Searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government 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.

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.

"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 aerospace-related citations, full-text online documents, and images and videos. The types of information include: conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA." Includes three components:
      NACA Collection: Citations and reports from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics period lasting from 1915 to 1958.
      NASA Collection: Citations and documents created or sponsored by NASA starting in 1958 and continuing to the present.
      NIX Collection: Citations and links to the images, photos, movies, and videos from the discontinued NASA Image eXchange (NIX).

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."