The National Technical Information Service (NTIS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has announced the creation of a new online platform, National Technical Reports Library (NTRL). The online platform seeks to enhance accessibility to the NTIS bibliographic database of over 2.5 million scientific and technical reports.
The NTIS mission is to acquire, index, abstract, and archive the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored scientific and technical reports in existence. The NTRL operates on an IP-authenticated online interface that allows users to utilise a variety of search strategies for queries on the large NTIS bibliographic database.
The aim is to broadly expand and improve access to over 2.5 million bibliographic records (pre-1960 to present) and over 500k full-text documents in Portable Document Format that are directly linked to the bibliographic database. The database is continuously updated with new content. The NTRL offers access to these authenticated government technical reports to libraries and technical information users.
