Research and Course Guides: Engineering: Technical Reports

Definition

What is a Technical Report? This article from Wikipedia describes a technical report, and explains the difference between a technical report and a journal article.

Print Resources

Technical Reports Guide

Free Article / Tech Report Websites

Scitation This link opens in a new window
American Institute of Physics publications; 1957-present

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Government Technical Reports Collection in Cooper Library

Cooper Library had a historical collection of technical reports - most of them disseminated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from the mid-1970s to 1997. We no longer maintain this collection, as most reports are available electronically.

Subject access to this collection is available using two print Indexes: Government Reports Announcements (GRA), C 51.9/3: and Energy Research Abstracts (ERA), E 1.17:. Both are shelved in the Government Documents Collection on the 3rd floor.

Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications This link opens in a new window
comprehensive index to historical information published by the U.S. federal government

MarciveWeb DOCS
The MarciveWeb DOCS database is the most comprehensive GPO database on the web. It’s updated weekly and contains full records back to 1976.

Government Technical Reports Online

SciTech Connect
Free public access to more than 350,000 full-text documents and 2.5 million bibliographic citations to Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Coverage is primarily from 1991 forward, but nearly 85,000 documents were published prior to 1990.
NASA Technical Reports Server
Over 500,000 aerospace-related citations, over 200,000 full-text online documents, and over 500,000 images and videos are available.

National Service Center for Environmental Publications This link opens in a new window
search, view, download, print and/ or order Environmental Protecton Agency (EPA) publications

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)
A collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
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Reports are from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the National Bureau of Standards (NBS)

Full-Text Technical Reports Databases

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
search IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards 1950-present; full text of many publications since 1998 available
SAE Mobilus This link opens in a new window
standards and technical papers from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE); 1998-present
TRID This link opens in a new window
records from the Transportation Research Information Services and International Transport Research Documentation databases
TAPPI TIPs and UMs This link opens in a new window
current Technical Information Papers and Useful Methods used in the manufacture, evaluation, and description of pulp, paper, and related products

ASABE Technical Library
full-text access to many publications from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

Search for Technical Reports (free)

National Technical Reports Library (Public NTRL) This link opens in a new window
index to National Technical Information Service (NTIS) publications; 1990-present
ERIC This link opens in a new window
education research; 1966-present; access provided via Discus