Technical Reports
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The major repository of technical reports at the Library of Congress
is the Technical Reports and Standards (TRS) unit in the Science,
Technology, and Business Division. Along with the millions of
government-issued documents, TRS also houses a large number of technical
reports
distributed
by foreign governments, universities and research institutes
as well as a number of major international organizations.
These reports are not cataloged since they are typically fully described by various government or commercial abstracting and
indexing services (National Technical Information Service - NTIS, for example).
Another 1.5 million or so technical reports have been cataloged and are
part of the Library's general collections. Examples of these
include the papers, notes, reports, and memoranda of the RAND Corporation,
the reports of NATO's Advisory Group on Aerospace Research and Development
(AGARD) and its successor organization, the Research and Technology
Organization (RTO), the various document series of the National Advisory
Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), and its successor, the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA). As a general rule, cataloged technical
report series kept in the general collections are not duplicated in
TRS. These cataloged technical reports series may
be found through the Library's online
catalog. If a report cannot be found by author and/or title, the
catalog should be searched for the series entry. These titles are available in hardcopy, microform, digital media or as online
databases.
Consult the Library's Databases
and Electronic Resources pages
or the following print & microform indexes in the Science Reading Room (SCI RR), the general collections, & the Microform Reading Room to identify
individual reports:
Government reports announcements & index.
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Technical Information Service, 1975-1996.
LC Call Number: Z7916 .G78
Government reports announcements.
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 1971-1975.
LC Call Number: Z7916 .B47
Government reports index.
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 1971-1974.
LC Call Number: Z7405.R4 U513
United States Government Research & Development Reports.
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 1969-1971.
LC Call Number:
Z7405.R4 U513
United States Government Research Reports (USGRR).
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information (CFSTI), 1965-1969.
LC Call Number: Z7916.B4715 (SCI RR)
United States Government Research Reports (USGRR).
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of Technical Services (OTS), 1954-1964.
LC Call Number: Microfilm 01755
Bibliography of Technical Reports.
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of Technical Services (OTS), 1949-1954.
LC Call Number:
Microfilm 01755
Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports.
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Office of Technical Services (OTS), 1946-1949.
LC Call Number:
Microfilm 01755
Classified list of OTS printed reports.
Office of Technical Services (OTS), Reports Division, October 1947. (PB 81500)
LC Call Number: Z7916.U48 (SCI RR)
Catalogs 1,800 reports on German technology.
OSRD reports.
Bibliography and index of declassified reports having OSRD
numbers. Office of Technical Services, Bibliographic and Reference Division,
June 1947. (PB 78000)
LC Call Number: Z7916.U5 (SCI RR)
Includes all Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) reports
which have OSRD numbers.
Index to PB reports listed in U.S. Government Research Reports.
Jan. 1953 - Sept. 1954
LC Call Number: Z7916.B473 (SCI RR)
Energy research abstracts. Technical Information Center, U.S. Dept. of Energy. 1977-1995.
LC Call Number: Z5853.P83 U544b
INIS atomindex. Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 1970-1997.
LC Call Number: Z7144.N8 I18
Nuclear science abstracts. United States Atomic Energy Commission. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Oak Ridge Directed Operations, Technical Information Division, 1948-1976.
LC Call Number: QC770 .U64
Scientific and technical aerospace reports. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Washington, D.C. : NASA, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 1963-1995.
LC Call Number: TL500 .S35
Dictionary of report series codes. 2nd ed.
Special Libraries Assoc., 1973
LC Call Number: Z6945.A2 D5 1973 (SCI RR)
Alphabetic lists of report series codes with related agencies & corporate
entries with related codes; sources of report series codes, suggestions
on other sources, reference notes.
Report series codes dictionary. 3rd ed.
Dictionary of report series codes.
LC Call Number: Z6945.A2 R45 1986 (SCI RR)
Alphabetic list of report codes & agency names. Alphabetic list of report
series codes by corporate author.
Report series code holdings.
LC Call Number: Z6945.A2 D5 1973 (SCI RR)
Companion to dictionary of report series codes.
Hardcopy reports found in the general collections can be requested
in any of the public reading rooms in the Jefferson and Adams Buildings.
Reports
published
in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean must be requested in the Asian
Reading Room. Reports published by the U.S. Government Printing Office
and distributed as part of the federal document depository collection, as
well as documents
published by the General Accounting Office, are available for use in the Newspaper
and Current Periodical Room in the Madison Building (LM 133).
The Microform Reading Room in
the Jefferson Building has a set of ERIC documents on microfiche, plus microform
copies of some minor record groups. It also maintains a collection of U.S.
doctoral dissertations on microform, published by UMI.
Standards
Standards can be found in hard copy either in TRS, the Law
Library (OSHA standards or some building
codes for example), or searching the Library's online
catalog for materials
in the general collections. Indexes to Standards are also available in
the Library's online
databases.