Technical Reports

The Government Publications Library has one of the largest collections of government sponsored technical reports in the world. This collection is primarily microfiche. We own most of the reports distributed by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) since 1963.

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts NTIS database CU a database of NTIS publications from 1964 to the present. Please bring the accession number to the reference desk and we will help you find a copy of the title.
• E-print Network is "a gateway to over 13,750 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE."
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) "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." This database contains NTIS publications from 1964 to present. Records include author, title, price, report number, and major subject category. Records do not include abstract. If you find a title you want in this database bring the NTIS order number to the reference desk and we will look for a copy in our collection.
• Science.gov This database searches across the web sites of over 50 U.S. government agencies. While many of the resources are full-text, please come to the government publications desk for help locating print or microfiche copies of the citations.
• TRIAL: Technical Report Archive and Image Library A collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts NTIS database CU a database of NTIS publications from 1964 to the present. Please bring the accession number to the reference desk and we will help you find a copy of the title.
• Department of Defense (DoD)
  • Department of Defense (DoD) Issuances This site contains directives, issuances, administrative instructions, directive type memoranda, and publications.
  • assistdocs.com provides access to Defense Standardization Program documents obtained from the official DoD repository, the ASSIST database.
  • Department of Defense Scientific and Technical Reports Collection: access to citations to unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Report Bibliographic (TR) Database within the last 10 years as well as some full text reports. The site also includes databases that focus on individual topics and special collections of featured documents.
• Department of Energy (DOE)
  Read the notes on our collection for additional information.
  • DOE Information Bridge provides "over 21,000 full text documents and approximately 200,000 bibliographic records starting from January 1996" including DOE reports, bibliographic citations (and full text when available) of energy related scientific and technical information obtained from a variety of domestic and international sources.
  • Energy Citations Database contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
• Dialog@Site CU includes a database of NTIS publications from 1980 to the present. Search by word, subject heading, author, title words, performing and sponsoring organization, report and contract number, and other options.
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • EPA Publications Search A database of online publications. Search by document number, title or words in the title. Search results include a brief description.
  • NSCEP/NEPIS More than 7,000 in stock and 26,000 digital titles are available free of charge to search and retrieve, download, print and/or order from the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP).
• E-print Network is "a gateway to over 13,750 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE."
• Geologic Survey, Publications Warehouse 1882-present
• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) includes a bibliographic database and full text for selected reports published from 1917-1958. NACA was abolished and its functions were transferred to NASA in 1958.
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scientific and Technical Information Program provides:
  • NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) provides access to NASA's technical literature. NTRS also collects scientific and technical information from sites external to NASA to broaden the scope of information available to users.
• National Academy Press Reading Room: online access to 1,000+ full text publications in science, technology and public policy. National Academy Press is the publisher for the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
• National Park Service (NPS) Technical Information Center (DSC Technical Information Center) Bibliographic Database [DUE TO CONTINUING LITIGATION THIS DATABASE IS OFFLINE AT THE MOMENT. For help finding titles in our NPS collection please visit the govpubs reference desk] contains over 200,000 entries for park documents, drawings, videos, aerial photography, and photographs. The Technical Information Center receives materials from national parks throughout the country to include in the database and makes microfiche copies for all the regional Park Service offices. The database can be browsed by subject, location and alphabetically. Selective records have a link to scanned image, which is a new feature of the database.

  Yale and the University of Colorado, by gift of the Center, also have copies of NPS documents. (Call number: I29.2/9:). To access the documents held in microfiche by CU, enter the database and click on "Search". For Record Type, select "Document". You may then search by park name or by keyword using boolean operators. Ask for the microfiche at the Government Publications Library Reference Desk. We need the Park Code number and the Address number (most starting with "D") to retrieve the microfiche. If you click on the "Park Alpha" designator, you can view a complete record with subject headings for each document. Photograph, drawing, video and documents in other formats are available from DSC Technical Information Center.

• National Park Service Voyager Database a combined library catalog of many units within the National Park Service. Some bibliographic citations contain links to the full-text materials.
• National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) provides the full text of safety recommendations, press releases and bibliographic citations for Aviation, Highway, Marine, Pipeline/Hazardous Materials, and Railroad accident reports released through National Technical Information Service (NTIS). These reports are available on microfiche in the CU Government Publications Library. In addition, recent reports are available online. Use the Publications menu to locate citations and full text.
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) "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." This database contains NTIS publications from 1964 to present. Records include author, title, price, report number, and major subject category. Records do not include abstract. If you find a title you want in this database bring the NTIS order number to the reference desk and we will look for a copy in our collection.
• Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) Legacy site includes a complete archive of reports and information about the history and impact of the now-defunct agency. "OTA provided Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century."
• Science.gov This database searches across the web sites of over 50 U.S. government agencies. While many of the resources are full-text, please come to the government publications desk for help locating print or microfiche copies of the citations.
• US Agency for International Development Development Experience Clearinghouse a searchable " family of bibliographic databases that contains records for about 115,000 [United States] Agency [for International Development] technical and program documents."  Over 11,000 documents are available online.
• University of Maryland Virtual Technical Reports Center contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds.

• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Document Repository provides online editions of selected FAO reports on topics such as irrigation, agriculture, sustainable development, desertification, pesticides, food security, wildlife, and animal husbandry.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research and Technology Reports This database contains citations and full-text access to technical reports from the various organizations in NATO.
• World Resources Institute provides the complete texts of over 300 reports, papers, and books on environmental issues. Includes online editions of its flagship publication, World Resources. Many publications are available in Adobe Acrobat format from the Publications Menu.
• WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases. The database provides one-stop searching of global science sources. It currently searches 15 countries technical reports collections at once.

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  The majority of technical reports are not in the catalog, but there are a few special collections of reports that have been cataloged. The first two searches are for those collections.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  "rocky flats collection"	"rocky flats collection"
  "civil defense collection"	"civil defense collection"
  technical report and environment* (government publications only)	technical report and environment* (government publications only)
  technical report* and energy (government publications only)	technical report* and energy (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Rocky Flats
• Soil Surveys
• Transportation