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Erich Purpur
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Brown Science & Engineering Library
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Searching for Technical Reports
- AERADE Reports Archive (includes NACA Reports)Includes more than ten thousand, historically significant, digitised reports from the Aeronautical Research Council (ARC ) - the principal agency in Great Britain, and other resources.
Technical report literature forms a significant portion of the information that engineers and scientists may find useful. Even so, different disciplines place varying amounts of emphasis on technical report literature. Some subject areas provide good indexes to this material while others may not. Reports prepared at academic institutions may be well indexed within the institution but not generally known outside it. And technical reports prepared by for-profit companies and organizations may be completely proprietary and remain essentially invisible to anyone outside the organization.
The resources below offer several ways to search for technical reports in a fairly comprehensive manner.
- AIVC - Air Filtration and Ventilation CentreFree online access to AIVC publications and databases for Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway and USA.
- Defense Technical Information Center Online This link opens in a new windowSearch for publicly acessible infromation in the Technical Reports database of the Defense Technical Information Center and the Web sites of the Department of Defense.
- IBM Research ReportsSearchable index of research reports. Some reports are available for download.
- NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO)Indexes international publications from STO, RTO and AGARD. Many reports are now available full-text when marked with Green circle.This organization was formerly known as Research and Technology Organization (RTO) and Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development (AGARD).
- NSCEP/NEPIS - EPA's Gateway to Free Digital & Paper PublicationsNSCEP / NEPIS is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's publications resource for over 26,000 digital titles are available FREE of charge to search and retrieve, download, print and/or order.
- NTIS: National Technical Information Service This link opens in a new windowPart of Engineering Village, NTIS contains bibliographic citations and summaries of U.S. Government-sponsored research, development, and engineering reports.
- NTRS - NASA Technical Reports ServerThe NTRS provides access to NASA's current and historical aerospace research and engineering results, including NACA reports, NASA documents and NIX documents. The AERADE site above may include NACA reports not held by NASA.
- OpenGrey - System for Information on Grey Literature in EuropeOpenGrey - System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe - is your open access to SIGLE bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature (GL) produced in Europe.
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical InformationThe primary search tool for Department of Energy (DOE) funded science, technology, and engineering research results.
- TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image LibraryA collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.