Sponsors use technical reports as a means of keeping their grantees accountable. Both government groups and private organizations sponsor such projects. GMU is a member of the federal depository library program, which provides some technical reports. But since no agency coordinates the publication and dissemination of technical reports, they can be very difficult to identify and locate. The Fenwick Library has select technical reports in print format as well as in microfiche.
Many technical reports are available on the Web.
Some of these sites give only abstracts of the reports. Abstracts from government sponsored research published since 1964. Select NTIS from alphabetical list. Provides technical papers in physics, mathematics, and nonlinear sciences. CORA A search engine for computer science research papers, providing links to full reports online, references within the papers, and other articles which cite the papers.