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Find technical reports using subscription indexes
The Libraries sponsor three particularly useful subscription databases to help with finding reports.
Index to basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences, and also covers technology development and applications in supporting fields. Reports by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms may be found. 1962 to present.
This resource for finding research sponsored by the U.S. and select foreign governments also includes full-text access to many of the documents. 1964 to present.
Access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
Find technical reports owned by Stanford
Technical reports owned by the Stanford Libraries are listed in the online catalog, SearchWorks, by author, title, and performing organization. Some reports, including NACA, NASA, and AGARD, are only cataloged as a serial, for example: "NASA Technical Memorandum". In those cases it's best to search under the series name, and limit the search to "periodical title" to see which library holds the report series. Many of these old print reports are housed at the Stanford Auxiliary Libraries.
For additional help finding and obtaining technical reports, please contact the reference desk at the appropriate library:
Branner Earth Sciences Library
Mathematics and Statistics Library
Terman Engineering Library
Other Technical Reports Servers at Stanford
These servers are not maintained by the Stanford University Libraries. They do have Stanford Science and Engineering Technical Reports on them. There may be other servers which are not listed here.
Technical reports on the internet
There are many technical report sites on the Internet. You can read details of some of the more well-known science and engineering sites below.
Multi-search technical reports sites
These resources search across several domains to pull in results from multiple sources.
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