Science & Technology Technical Reports   Tags: engineering, science, technical report  

Technical reports and working papers are defined here as documents that formally present the results of scientific, technical, management, or social science activities of more than temporary interest, usually produced and initially distributed in small numbers.

The HKUST Library has also created an Institutional Repository for the technical reports (and other work) that results from research activity at HKUST

Listed below are selected online resources that provide working papers in the areas of management and economics.

bepress Powered Working Papers

Multi-disciplined working paper series, published using "bepress" technology.

 

Bibliographies of Technical Reports of Computer Science Departments

A searchable collection of bibliographies computer science technical reports, updated monthly. Maintained at Lehrstuhl Informatik fur Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.

 

CISTI - Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

Use the "advanced search" feature and use "technical report" as a keyword. Records lack abstracts.

 

Google -> Directory -> Science > Publications > Archives > Free Access Online Archives

A directory maintained by Google.
 

NTIS - (National Technical Information Service

Its catalog can be searched from 1990- but some records lack abstracts
 

OAIster

Now maintained by OCLC, this is a searchable collection of freely available, academically-oriented digital resources. When using the search engine, type in the words "technical report" or "working paper" or "discussion paper", along with your subject keywords.
 

Science Accelerator

Science Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, etc. from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the USA.
 

Scirus

Searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages for scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data, including preprints, technical reports, etc.
 

Sources for Technical Reports

From the University of Virginia, it contains links to Web sources of technical report literature and offers advice on how to obtain technical report literature.
 

Technical Reports

From Stanford University, describes what are technical reports and where to find them.
 

Virtual Technical Reports Center

From the University of Maryland Libraries, it is alphabetical index (by institution) of technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds.