Library: Computer Science &amp; Information Systems: Technical Reports

Technical Reports

What are technical reports?

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

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
The largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information and acts as a clearinghouse. With about 3 million titles going back more than 60 years, the NTIS Database is the starting point for record searching.
National Technical Reports Library
(NTRL) offers the American public free access to a searchable online database of approximately three million federal science and technology reports.
Engineering Village
Request reports via our Interlibrary Loan Service.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge. Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerx has developed new methods and algorithms to index PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web. Citeseerx provides the following features.

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