The Government Printing Office (GPO) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) are working to deliver NTIS reports to Depository Libraries. The Boston College Libraries is a member of the Federal Depository system. NTIS is the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today, covering more than 600,000 information products and over 350 subject areas from over 200 federal agencies. We will be taking steps to make sure that the Boston College community can have easy access to these reports.
Here is a portion of the GPO/NTIS announcement:
The Government Printing Office (GPO) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) are pleased to announce that Federal depository libraries now have access to online technical reports from NTIS. The pilot project, first announced last October, provides access to bibliographic records for approximately 240,000 publications from 1964-2000 from the NTIS data storage and retrieval system. Through "DARTS: Depository Access to Reports, Technical & Scientific," depository libraries are able to download at no charge the full-text electronic documents for which links are available and, in the near future, they will have the option to purchase print, microfiche or CD/DVD copies from NTIS.
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