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Finding Technical Reports

arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Open access to 1,000,000+ e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Tutorial for the arXiv.org database.

Mason Department of Computer Science Technical Reports
Provides access to technical reports by Mason researchers. Covers comuter science and software engineering
SCS Technical Reports, Carnegie Mellon University
Provides access to research related to computer science, robotics, Human-computer interaction, machine learning, software and more.

Hewlett Packard Labs
Contains abstracts and full text of HP Labs Technical Publications. When only the abstract appears, the full text is unavailable due to copyright considerations. Covers from 1990 to present.
IBM Technical Research
Find citations and full text technical reports covering research conducted by IBM researchers.
Microsoft Research
This portal provides access to information about Microsoft research. Use the Researcher Tools link to access reports or go to this page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/tools/
TechRepublic Resource Library
Web's largest library of free technical IT white papers, webcasts, and case studies. IT categories include Data Management, IT Management, Networking, Security, Communications, Enterprise Applications, Storage, etc.

NTRL: National Technical Reports Library This link opens in a new window
Provides documents from the National Technical Information Service's comprehensive collection of federally-funded science- and technology-related technical reports.

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports
Provides public access to research conducted by NASA (and its predecessors). Includes citations to reports, journal articles, patents and access to images, movies, video, etc. Check the NIX box to search for images.
DOE Office of Science & Technical Information
Search for energy related research in this tool from the US Department of Energy.
Center for Transportation Research (UT-Austin)
Provides access to transportation research including economics, multimodal systems, traffic congestion relief, policy, etc.

Proceedings

Proceedings are compilations of papers presented at scientific, professional conferences or meetings. Proceedings usually report new research or analyses that may not have been published in a book or journal (yet). Search for papers from conferences and meetings using these tools:

American Mathematical Society (AMS) Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics This link opens in a new window
Contains Symposia, dating from 1949 through 2012, which were presented at annual joint mathematics meetings.
American Mathematical Society (AMS) Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics This link opens in a new window
Includes papers, many of a survey/expository nature on a specific active area of mathematics, presented at symposia as well as summer research institutes and conferences.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Citations and full-text articles in the area of computing and information technologies from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the ACM.
Tutorial for the ACM Digital Library database.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to all journals, transactions and conference proceedings published by IEEE and IET. Accesses more than 1,000 books in the IEEE-Wiley eBook Library and IEEE-MIT eBook Library-Computing and Engineering Collection.
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PapersFirst This link opens in a new window
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Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library Document Supply Centre.
Proceedings This link opens in a new window
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Citations and the table of contents for every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library.

Grey Literature

In general, grey literature publications are non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications. They may include, but are not limited to the following types of materials: reports (pre-prints, preliminary progress and advanced reports, technical reports, statistical reports, memoranda, state-of-the art reports, market research reports, etc.), theses, conference proceedings, technical specifications and standards, non-commercial translations, bibliographies, technical and commercial documentation, and official documents not published commercially (primarily government reports and documents) (Alberani, 1990).

Grey literature can also include e-mails, faxes, blog postings, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasts and other new communication technologies. For more information, please see the following article from the Association of College and Research Libraries website below.

Gray literature: Resources for locating unpublished research
Brian S. Mathews. C&RL News, March 2004, Vol. 65, No. 3