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Global Technical Reports brings 2 million reports from 175+ government laboratories into a single, cross-searchable collection — recovering nearly a decade of coverage NTIS-NTRL stopped providing, and extending it worldwide.
Technical reports are the working record of applied science. They document how bridges are tested, how aircraft are designed, how vaccines are trialed, how energy systems are built. NTIS-NTRL gathered that record into one place that libraries and researchers relied on for decades.
Then it contracted. In 2006, NTIS indexed 133 U.S. government agencies. By 2025, it indexed only one. Thousands of reports no longer indexed and preserved as funding declined. Valuable content left scattered and at risk across scores of websites.
Global Technical Reports puts that record back together — and extends it.
Technical reports indexed
Government laboratories and institutes
Nearly a century of coverage
Historical NTIS-NTRL items preserved
Sourced from national laboratories, defense research centers, energy agencies, infrastructure institutes, and public health bodies across the United States, Europe, East Asia, and Australasia — including all U.S. Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).
"Applied science is often measured in patents and publications, but it is lived in the technical reports that document how things were actually built, tested, and learned from. Government laboratories do the slow, essential work that underpins public infrastructure, yet their reports rarely survive the end of a program or the retirement of a website."
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We've preserved over 900,000 historical items from NTIS-NTRL, backfilled nearly two decades of coverage that NTIS-NTRL stopped providing, and extended the original collection's scope to government-funded research worldwide.
175+ government laboratories and institutes, including all U.S. Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), national laboratories and defense research centers across the United States, Europe, and Australasia, plus energy agencies, infrastructure institutes, and public health bodies.
1926 to the present.
Available for one-time purchase, ongoing subscription, or trial. Consortium pricing is in place through CRL, BTAA, LYRASIS, Jisc, and CRKN.
Yes. Global Technical Reports is one of several collections on Applied Science Commons, Coherent Digital's platform for applied-science grey literature drawn from 13,000+ organizations including governments, hospitals, corporations, and research centers. Libraries can purchase individual collections such as Global Technical Reports, or subscribe to Applied Science Complete to access every collection on the platform.
Full access to the Global Technical Reports collection on Applied Science Commons for an evaluation period. We'll work with you on the right scope (titles, IPs, users) for your library's evaluation.
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