The National Technical Information Service has called on the library, academic and business communities to evaluate the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) Repository Beta Version 2.0.
The new version improves and enhances the existing NTRL 1.0 in several ways to include fielded search; search by author, title, date, descriptor/identifier, report number, document type, or NTIS issue number; full-text searching; search with boolean operators (and, or, not) within the search fields allowing creation of complex strategies; search by year/date range; clustering of results for further refinement by year, source, NTIS subject category, or keyword; search multiple subject categories simultaneously; search results displays number of hits; complete metadata returned for selected record; metadata hotlinks; and more. The evaluation period ends May 23, 2011. Entities interested in participating in the beta evaluation may contact NTIS at NTRLTesters@ntis.gov for more details.
Since the launch in April 2009, the NTRL 1.0 has proven successful at providing subscription-based access to over 3 million scientific and technical reports produced by the U.S. Federal Government and other sources to thousands of end-users around the world. The NTRL 2.0 expands upon this original concept by using Fedora's open architecture which provides a repository environment.
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