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Technical Reports

Technical Reports databases (NTIS etc.)
What is a technical report?
Sources of technical reports
- NTIS. Georgia Tech Library subscription. The NTIS federally sponsored technical reports database links to many NTRL full text NTRL technical research reports.
- Selected technical reports are freely available on the Internet, many from the issuing agencies such as Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DoD), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). TRAIL Working Groups have digitized selected pre-1975 U.S. reports. NTRL is a free searchable technical reports database.
- For individual technical reports not available online, Georgia Tech students and faculty/staff can request copies of technical reports by filling out an ILLiad request form.

Selected Technical Report Databases

NTIS Database (National Technical Information Service) This link opens in a new window
Access the latest research sponsored by the United States and select foreign governments. Online coverage back to 1964.

Georgia Tech Library subscription database. NTIS includes citations and abstracts from unclassified government-sponsored research reports from U.S. federal agencies, such as DoD, DOE, NASA and many other agencies. Many NTIS records link to full text NTRL technical report PDFs (using the NTIS "Full text" icon).

DTIC - S&T Research: Public Technical Reports This link opens in a new window Citations of unclassified, unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of selected documents. The Georgia Tech Library offers mediated searches of the DTIC classified and limited distribution technical reports. Searches are limited to qualified Georgia Tech researchers with the proper security clearances. For further information contact Bette Finn.

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NTRL

NTRS: NASA Technical Report Server This link opens in a new window Provides access to NASA aerospace information and domestic and international STI (scientific and technical information) pertinent to NASA's missions.
SciTech Connect This link opens in a new window DOE-sponsored R&D containing over 70 years of energy-related research results and citations collected by OSTI.
SciTech Connect is a portal to free, publicly-available DOE-sponsored R&D containing over 70 years of energy-related research results and citations collected by OSTI (the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States). It includes journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata, technical reports, scientific research datasets and collections, scientific software, patents, conference and workshop papers, books and theses, and multimedia. This collection continues to grow as new scientific and technical information resulting from DOE research becomes available.

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE (Department of Energy) ... It consolidates OSTI's home page and the retired SciTech Connect.

TRAIL - Technical Reports Image & Archive Library This link opens in a new window U.S. government technical reports in technology and science issued prior to 1976.

Acknowledgments

The authors of this Guide used significant material from previous Georgia Tech Library Research Guides.