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home The federal government publishes a wealth of information pertaining to science and technology. The Government Documents Library provides a valuable starting point in one’s research whether the needed publications are housed here in Government Documents, another University library or on the Internet.
Technical reports are more current sources of information than books or journal articles, but the information often has not been peer reviewed or closely edited. These publications often are not cataloged and citations are incomplete or inaccurate, so it is necessary to make use of appropriate databases and indexes, as well as working with a reference librarian.
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the central clearinghouse for unclassified technical reports of government-sponsored research. On the UIUC campus NTIS microfiche are housed in Grainger Engineering Library. An NTIS citation will often include an accession number for each report which will be useful in locating the microfiche. For more information on NTIS and accessing these reports, click on the 'National Technical Information Service' link in the menu above.
Grainger Library also offers this Tutorial: Locating Government Publications in Science and Technology. http://web.library.uiuc.edu/grainger/resrc/govdoc/govtut_1.htm
General Sources |
Catalog of United States Government Publications (MoCat)
Library of Congress
Virtual Technical Reports Center
USAID
WorldCat
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Congressional Research Service |
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
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Defense |
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) homepage
TORPEDO Ultra
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Energy |
EnergyFiles: Energy Science and Technology Virtual Library
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Environment |
EPA National Library Network Program
USGS Reports
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National Laboratories and Technology Centers |
Air Force Research Laboratory http://www.afrl.af.mil
Albany Research Center http://www.alrc.doe.gov/ Ames Laboratory Homepage http://www.external.ameslab.gov/ Argonne National Laboratory http://www.anl.gov
Brookhaven National Laboratory http://www.bnl.gov Environmental Measurements Laboratory http://www.eml.doe.gov/ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory http://www.fnal.gov/
Idaho National Laboratory http://www.inel.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory http://www.lbl.gov Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory http://www.llnl.gov/
Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.lanl.gov National Energy Technology Laboratory http://www.netl.doe.gov/ National Renewable Energy Laboratory http://www.nrel.gov/ New Brunswick Laboratory http://www.nbl.doe.gov/ Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education http://www.orau.gov/orise.htm Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://www.ornl.gov
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory http://www.pnl.gov Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory http://www.pppl.gov/ Radiological & Environmental Sciences Laboratory http://www.inel.gov/resl/ Sandia National Laboratory http://www.sandia.gov/ Savannah River Ecology Laboratory http://www.uga.edu/srel/ Savannah River National Laboratory http://www.srs.gov Stanford Linear Accelerator Center http://www.slac.stanford.edu/ Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility http://www.jlab.org
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Government Reports Announcements and Index
The National Technical Information Service is the federal government's central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information produced by or for the U.S. government and complementary material from international sources. The NTIS Collection of nearly 3 million titles includes: business and management studies, international marketing reports, materials and chemical science data, technology innovations, and training tools. The reports are primarily through government agencies and non-governmental organizations, the collection also includes an extensive collection of foreign technical reports and "gray" literature.
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Nuclear Regulation |
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS)
This system provides access to all image and text documents that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made public since November 1, 1999. It supports full text searching and is updated daily. It also provides bibliographic records of some items prior to that date.
U.S. Nuclear
Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB)
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Goddard
Space Flight Center Library
Langley
Technical Report Server
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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Transportation |
Air
Traffic Organization Operations Planning Research and Development This site provides means of searching FAA technical reports by author, fiscal year (from 1998) and subject.
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Non-Governmental Sources |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Carnegie Mellon University: Tech Reports
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
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