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About Technical Reports

What?

A technical report is a document that describes the process, progress, or results of technical or scientific research or the state of a technical or scientific research problem. They are prepared for internal or wider distribution by many organizations. Technical reports often present cutting edge research before being published in journals or conferences.

Technical Reports online

NTIS - now the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) This link opens in a new window
Describes government technical reports from the U.S. and other countries. Good for locating reports that one should be able to obtain for free from NASA, DOD, DOE, EPA and other agencies. NTRL has the full text of more than 800,000 technical reports.
CiteSeerX This link opens in a new window
Free computer science citation database with some full text available. Lists the most frequently cited authors and documents in computer science, as well as impact ratings. Also provides algorithms, metadata, services, techniques, and software.

Technical Report Collections at Other Universities

University of Maryland - a U.S. Government Document Depository Library for scientific and technical reports from several agencies

Indiana University Computer Science Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Stanford University

U.C. Berkeley

University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Department