Technical Reports - Selected Bibliographic and Full Text Databases

For assistance with technical reports in the microfiche collection, see Government Information Librarians, Lower Level, Shields Library.

[Checked] Indicates a recommended or comprehensive bibliographic database

[Restricted] Indicates a licensed database restricted to UCD or UC users

Department of Defense

DefenseLink publications
Department of Defense Scientific and Technical Report Collections: See also the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) databases listed below.
Department of Defense Single Stock Point for access to over 50,000 Military Specifications, Standards, and related documents.
assistdocs.com: assistdocs.com provides access to Defense Standardization Program documents obtained from the official DoD repository, the ASSIST database.
UC Davis Collection notes: Very few Defense Dept. technical reports are located here.

Department of Energy

DOE Information Bridge: The full text of DOE reports are available electronically beginning with reports in 1996.
Energy Citations Database: Bibliographic records for energy and energy-related reports from DOE and predecessor agencies, Atomic Energy Commission and ERDA. Citations cover technical report and energy literature from 1948 to the present.
Energy Files: Comprises several different access points to information and resources relating to energy technology.
OpenNet: OpenNet is sponsored by the Office of Declassification, U.S. Department of Energy and contains information on how to locate unclassified DOE and Atomic Energy commission documents dating back to 1945.; DOE Openess: Human Radiation Experiments
Graylit Network: A portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects.
E-Print Network: A searchable gateway to scientific and technical documents that are circulated electronically.
UC Davis Collection notes: Shields Library has a collection of U.S. Department of Energy Technical Reports in microfiche. Most fiche are filed in the microfiche collection on the lower level of Shields Library.

ERIC Documents - Department of Education

The ERIC Database indexes and abstracts education and education related journals, studies and reports.

The ERIC online system: ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present. ERIC also contains a growing collection of full-text materials in Adobe PDF format, including reports from the What Works Clearinghouse.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)[via CSA]
UC Davis Collection notes: Shields Library has ERIC documents with ED numbers beginning in 1980. Many ERIC ED documents starting in 1993 are available from the E*Subscribe connection.

Environmental Protection Agency

Science Inventory: A searchable, Agency-wide catalog of more than 4,000 science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, and peer-reviewed products.
National Service Center for Environmental Publications: Search, order, read EPA Publications.
EPA Publications and Information: Search the National Environmental Publications Information System
EPA Test Methods Index

Index of Federal Specifications and Standards

National Academy Press Reading Room

Full text books and reports from the National Academy of Sciences and affiliated organizations.

NASA Technical Reports

Recent NASA publications also available only in electronic format:

NASA Technical Reports Server

Includes current NASA technical reports as well as NACA Digital Library for reports from that agency, 1915-1960.

UC Davis Collection notes

Shields Library has NASA reports in microfiche. Most fiche are filed in the microfiche collection in the lower level of Shields Library, however, some are in the Physical Sciences Library. Older reports are indexed in Scientific and Technical Aerospace ReportsS (STAR) index in the Government Documents Department. Fiche are generally filed by the N numbers.

NTIS Reports

NTIS via CSA: Provides search interface and bibliographic citations for technical reports from 1964 to the present.
NTIS Web: A free database for technical reports includes reports added to the system since 1990.
Science.gov: A gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative science information provided by U.S. government agencies.
UC Davis Collection notes: NTIS (National Technical Information Service) reports are received in microfiche selectively. For example, many reports contracted by or produced by the Environmental Protection Agency are received and are typically filed by their PB numbers.