Technical Reports : Technical Reports Databases

See a comprehensive list of technical report databases in the Database Library

DTIC Online
Citations to unclassified unlimited documents entered into the Defense Technical Information Center's Technical Reports Collection from 1974 to present. Also offers full text documents September 1998 to present. If full text is not available for a desired report, contact a librarian. We can request a digitized copy for you.

HathiTrust
A digitized collection of thousands of publications from the CIC libraries (Big Ten) and the University of California System. Full-text scans of works that are out of copyright or in the public domain are available for viewing or searching, including thousands of technical reports digitized in partnership with TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library).

National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
NSCEP is a database of more than 35,000 full-text EPA documents from the early 1990's to the present.

NTRL National Technical Reports Library NTIS National Technical Information Service (via NTIS)
NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) offers a public interface for accessing authenticated government technical reports in the U.S. Department of Commerce NTIS (National Technical Information Service) database. The National Technical Information Service is a large central resource for U.S. government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. The database of more than 3 million publications provides links to over 800,000 full-text technical reports in 350 subject areas. Over 195,000 brief records have been added for pre-1964 information.

NTRS: NASA Technical Report Server
Thousands of research reports created or sponsored by NASA and its predecessor NACA (1915-1958), as well as images and videos from NIX (the discontinued NASA Image eXchange). The database gives access to aerospace-related citations, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information include: conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos – scientific and technical information (STI). 

OSTI.GOV: Office of Scientific and Technical Information
​OSTI.GOV is a portal to free, publicly-available U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, software, and data information, and was developed by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with most providing links to full text. OSTI.GOV provides access to all the information previously available in SciTech Connect, DOE Information Bridge, and Energy Citations Database.

SAE Digital Library (Society of Automotive Engineers)
The SAE Digital Library is a repository of technical content for all forms of vehicle technology: land, sea, air and space. The database contains full text technical papers from 1906 to the present. International papers are represented by abstracts only. Any SAE technical papers not available in full text can be requested through Interlibrary Loan. The SAE DL also contains information on SAE standards. See this page on how to retrieve standards for more information.

TRID TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services)
Over 1 million records on transportation research with some full text. TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD).