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Technical Reports for Engineering

Technical reports form part of the so-called 'Grey literature'. This is usually hard to find, as it is mostly available through specialized channels such as government agencies and research organisations.

Australian Government Publications

GovPubs : the Australian Government Publications Guide is a guide to selected Australian Commonwealth and State Government publications located in Australia's National and State Libraries and on the Internet.

International Publications

The Virtual Technical Reports Center The University of Maryland Libraries maintain links to institutions that provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the Web.

National Technical Information Service (U.S Dept. of Commerce) Search the NTIS catalogue for government publications and technical reports. Many but not all documents can be accessed for free.

GrayLIT Network is a US portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects. The portal was developed by the US Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).

CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) Document Server Search for published articles, preprints, theses, reports, books, conferences and more.

ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.

Sun Microsystems Research Technical Reports

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library NCSTRL (pronounced 'ancestral') is an international collection of computer science research reports and papers. Most participating institutions are universities that grant PhDs in Computer Science or Engineering, with some industrial or government research laboratories.

Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Technical Reports Archives of technical reports produced by the divisions of the School of Computer Science, as well as Special Collections and the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library.