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Earth & Planetary Sciences

Technical Reports

  • National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)
    NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) is from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). NTRL indexes government-sponsored research, development and technical reports and provides full-text access to reports that have been digitized.
  • Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Library
    The United States Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center Library hosts an online digital repository of ERDC reports, publications, and more.
  • NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
    NTRS provides access to planetary science-related citations, full-text online documents, and 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) created or funded by NASA.
  • Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
    DTIC helps the Department of Defense (DoD) community access pertinent scientific and technical information to meet mission needs more effectively.
  • Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)
    A collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.

Government Publications

  • OSTI (U.S. Department of Energy)
    OSTI’s Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database. Provides free public access to over 230,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature.  Documents are primarily from 1991-present and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees.
  • USACE Digital Library
    The materials in this repository include information by and about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Most materials were published by USACE, but some collections contain materials by other government agencies written about USACE.
  • United States Geological Survey (USGS) Publications Warehouse
    The database provides access to the publications of the USGS and includes references to U.S. Geological Survey reports and maps published from 1880 to date.
  • EPA Publications Search
    Search the Environmental Protection Agency Web site or search the EPA National Catalog for EPA technical publications and reports.
  • Science.gov 
    Searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.