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Federal Highway Administration Research Library

 

 

About US

 

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Research Library mission is the following:

In support of the FHWA's research, development, and technology (RD&T) mission to investigate new highway technologies and transfer those research results to the transportation community, the FHWA Research Library will provide collections, electronic resources, and services in support of the research needs of FHWA staff; and collect and maintain all research reports by or for FHWA RD&T.

The FHWA Research Library exists to serve the information needs of FHWA employees. The FHWA Research Library will answer questions from the general public as time permits. Non-FHWA employees looking for copies of FHWA reports should see "Sources for FHWA Reports."

In addition to a collection of books, reports, technical standards, and periodicals, the FHWA Research Library provides reference and research services, and interlibrary borrowing services to FHWA employees.

The FHWA Research Library staff can help employees find information on a topic, perform comprehensive literature searches in support of research projects, search library catalogs, article databases and the Internet, and locate facts and statistics.

If the FHWA Research Library collection does not contain the materials needed by staff, library staff can obtain materials such as journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports, through interlibrary borrowing.

Highlights of the FHWA Research Library Collections

FHWA Office of Research, Development, and Technology reports, including the TS (Technical Sharing) series; IP (Implementation) series; RD (Research and Development) series; and the current HRT (Highway Research and Technology series).

State department of transportation (DOT) and University Transportation Center research reports.

Transportation Research Board (TRB) publications.

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) publications.

Public Roads magazine, beginning with the vol. 1, no. 2, June 1918 issue.

Bureau of Public Roads (FHWA predecessor agency) historical materials.

FHWA Research Library Catalog [FHWA employees]

The library's catalog is available to search from FHWA employees' desktop.

This Web-based catalog can help identify materials that are in the library’s physical collection, including FHWA research and development reports, TRB and AASHTO publications, State DOT and University Transportation Center reports, books, journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, and historical materials. The online catalog can be searched by keyword, title, author, subject, and date, etc. FHWA employees can request to borrow items found through catalog searches. FHWA employees should go to the U.S. Department of Transportation's SharePoint site and search for "Federal Highway Administration Library" for links to these resources.

Only a fraction of the physical library collection is currently included in the online catalog. If employees don’t find what they're looking for, please contact library staff. The item may be in the library collection, but not yet in the catalog.

Online Tools

Subscription databases [FHWA employees]

FHWA employees have access to subscription databases (Compendex, IEEE Xplore, ASCE Digital Library, etc.) and e-book collections (AccessEngineering, CRCNetBase, and Knovel) through the FHWA Research Library SharePoint site.

Transportation Libraries Catalog (TLCat) is a shared catalog of transportation-related books and other publications held in government, university, and other transportation libraries. TLCat is a subgroup of Online Computer Library Center Catalog (OCLC WorldCat).

National Transportation Library (NTL) Catalog is comprised of the NTL Digital Repository (digital copies of technical, research, and policy documents related to all modes of transportation) and links to other Web accessible transportation resources.

Transportation Research International Documentation Database

TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from the Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD 's) Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID is the world’s largest database covering published transportation research.

Transportation Research Thesaurus—The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) is a thesaurus of transportation-related terminology used by catalogers and indexers in assigning descriptors and subject terms to publications. Researchers also can search by these terms when searching for publications by subject/keyword.

Borrowing

The FHWA Research Library loans circulating materials to FHWA employees and onsite contractors only.

The FHWA Research Library does not loan file copies of FHWA reports, most reference/legal materials, entire issues or volumes of periodicals, or historical materials.

Loans from the FHWA Research Library collection to the general public shall be made through the requestor's local library through an Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

FHWA Research Library Interlibrary Loan Policy

 

Contact Us

» FHWA Research Library

6300 Georgetown Pike, RM. A200
McLean, VA 22101-2296
Fax: 202-493-3495
Tel: 202-493-3071

E-mail:
fhwalibrary@dot.gov


Hours:
7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
  
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