Major Report Indexes & Databases

For individual technical reports that are not currently owned by Georgia Tech, a request may be made to add a title to the Library's collection. This service is free of charge for Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff.

NTIS 

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) (1964-present)
Note: Requires a Georgia Tech faculty, staff or registered student user name and password
NTIS is a good starting point for technical reports. The database contains bibliographic information and summaries of over two million scientific, technical, engineering, and business reports acquired by NTIS. NTIS is also the lead U.S. Government agency for cooperation in international technical information exchange. Twenty percent of all new titles come from foreign sources through various international exchange agreements. 

For further information on this database, a PDF version of The NTIS Database Search Guide (89pp) is available. 

For reports older than 1964 or for ones not found in NTIS,

Government Reports and Announcements Index (GRAI) (1915-1994)
Call Number: Z7916.B47, 2nd floor east
Access is by subject, report number, author, and corporate source. Published by NTIS.

AEROSPACE RELATED

Aerospace & High Technology Database - also called Aerospace Database (1962-present) 
Note: Requires a Georgia Tech faculty, staff or registered student user name and password
The Aerospace & High Technology Database provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. In addition to periodic literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.  Print equivalents are International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) and Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR).

Scientific & Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR)
(1963-1995, & earlier titles back to 1915)
Call Number: TL500.S35, 2nd floor east
This abstracting and indexing journal covers the worldwide technical report literature on the science and technology of space and aeronautics. Types of materials covered include: NASA, NASA contractor, and NASA grantee reports; reports issued by other U.S. government agencies, domestic and foreign institutions, universities, and private firms; translations in report form; NASA-owned, other government agency, and foreign patents and patent applications; and domestic and foreign dissertations and theses emphasizing aeronautics, space science, and supporting disciplines. Abstracts in STAR are categorized by 10 major subject divisions that are divided into 76 specific subject categories. 

The 10 major categories are: Aeronautics, Astronautics, Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Geosciences, Life Sciences, Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physics, Social Sciences, Space Sciences and General.

The 76 specific categories may be viewed in one of the current online issues of STAR. 

International Aerospace Abstracts (1961-present)
Call Number: TL500.I57, 2nd floor east
This index does not focus on technical reports. Instead it complements STAR by abstracting book, journal, conference and other literature.

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) (1915-present)
Includes citations for technical reports from 1915 to the present, some full-text NACA Reports, and selected full-text NASA Reports.  NASA's technical information is available via the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) to provide access to NASA's publicly available technical literature.

Tip Sheet on Finding GT NACA/NASA Reports

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

DTIC Public STINET
Public STINET provides access to 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 database has over 850,000 public release records.

ENERGY

DOE Information Bridge (1994 - )
This site contains full-text from 1994. 

Energy Citations Database
(1948-present)
Primarily bibliographic information, but does link to some full-text.  Energy Citations contains bibliographic records for publicly available 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). Energy Citations includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.

Energy Research Abstracts (1976-1995)
Call Number: Z5853.P83 U5441X
This indexing and abstracting service covers all areas of energy-related information produced by the DOE and other U.S. government organizations, and foreign governments. The index will note the location of the article. 

Nuclear Science Abstracts (1948-1976) 
Call Number: QC770.U64 
Includes technical reports of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration and its contractors, other agencies, universities, and industrial and research organizations. The cumulative indexes allow you to check multiple years and will give updated information on a report. For example, an old Argonne National Lab (ANL) report may later have been published as an article. Continued in part by Energy Research Abstracts. 

ENVIRONMENT

EPA Documents 

National Environmental Publications Information System (NEPIS)
EPA's electronic documents site allows you to search view and print, including full images of all original pages and full-text, from a collection of over 11,000 archival and current documents. This collection may include documents that are no longer available in print form.  Includes 400 Series (Air and Radiation, OAR), 500 Series (Solid Waste and Emergency Response, OSWER), 600 Series (Research and Development, ORB), 700 Series (Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, OPPTS) and 800 Series (Water, OW) and others.

EPA Cumulative Bibliography (1970-1976)
Call Number: EP1.21/7-2 
Contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and indexes for reports generated by EPA and its predecessor agencies and entered into the NTIS collection through 1976. The six indexes are: Title, Subject (Keyword), Corporate Author, Personal Author, Contract Number, and Accession/Report Number. 

EPA Publications Bibliography (1977-1983)
This volume contains all the indexes of the original 7-year culmination, plus a Sponsoring EPA Office index. 

EPA Publications Bibliography (1984-1990)
Contains the same indexes as the previous volume current: Quarterly Abstract Bulletin: The fourth issue of each volume contains abstracts for that quarter plus complete cumulated indexes for that year. 

EPA Index
Call Number: Z5863.P7E6 1983
For reports published prior to 1982 that were distributed to federal depository libraries or cited in the U.S. Government Printing Office's Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, numeric and alphabetical title indexes provide Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) classification number and NTIS accession/order numbers. EPA reports are sometimes sent to federal depository libraries in both paper and microfiche formats. The index indicates the format(s) and whether the SuDocs number varies as to format.

LIMITED/CLASSIFIED

Technical Abstracts Bulletin (TAB) (1953-1982) 
Published by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), this publication abstracts and indexes classified reports and unclassified reports with limited distribution. This index is restricted to U.S. citizens. 

Private STINET 
The Georgia Tech Library offers mediated searches of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) classified and limited distribution technical reports Private STINET database.  Searches are limited to qualified Georgia Tech researchers with the proper security clearances.  For further information contact Bette Finn, 404-894-1790.  If Bette Finn is unavailable contact Mary-Frances Panettiere, 404-894-0401.

MONTHLY CATALOG

Monthly Catalog - GALILEO version (July 1976-present)

Monthly Catalog - GPO Access version (1994-present)
A report could be treated as a government document and/or a technical report. The Monthly Catalog is a good source to locate the government document version. 

Monthly Catalogue - United States Public Documents (1895 - 1995)
Call Number:  GP3.8:  Reference Collection, 2nd West.

LIBRARY'S REPORT COLLECTION

Selected electronic and print technical reports are listed in the GT Catalog (GIL) and in SMARTech (search by title keywords).

The Georgia Tech Library holds over 2,000,000 microfiche technical reports, located on the 2nd floor East. The period from 1960 to 2007 is the most heavily represented, although older reports dating from 1900 are available.  

For individual technical reports that are not currently held in the Georgia Tech microfiche collection, a request may be made to add a title to the Library's collection. This service is free of charge for Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff.