The following list identifies selected indexes and abstracts of government publications in science and technology. The sources appear in alphabetical order by title:

• Energy Research Abstracts (ERA)
• Government Reports Announcements and Index (GRA&I)
• International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA)
• Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MoCat)
• Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR)

Energy Research Abstracts (ERA)

• Published by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).

• Provides citations with abstracts for all scientific and technical reports and patent applications originated by DOE and its laboratories, energy centers, and contractors. Searchable by subject, personal author, corporate author, contract number, and report number.

• Located at call number 016.3338 in the Grainger Indexes and Abstracts Collection (holdings include 1975 - 1995). Print publication of ERA ceased in December 1995.

• The Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology contains searchable bibliographic records from peer-reviewed journal literature, gray literature (including technical reports produced by the DOE) and a preprint network. Subject-specific information portals also provide full-text DOE scientific and technical reports, links to journal literature, and other information sources.

Government Reports Announcements and Index (GRA&I)

• Published by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).

• Provides citations with abstracts for the scientific and technical reports received by NTIS. Searchable by subject, personal author, corporate author, contract/grant number, and NTIS order/report number.

• Located at call number A.600UN34B in the Grainger Indexes and Abstracts Collection (holdings include 1946 - 1996). Print publication of GRA&I ceased in December 1996.

• The NTIS Technical Reports Database provides bibliographic citations to over 350,000 printed publications and technical reports that NTIS has received from government agencies since 1990.

International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA)

• Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

• Provides citations with abstracts for literature in the field of aeronautics and space science and technology, including AIAA meeting papers. Searchable by subject, personal author, meeting and report number, and accession number.

• Located at call number 629.1305INTE in the Grainger Indexes and Abstracts Collection (holdings include 1961 - present).

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MoCat)

• Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

• Offers partial coverage of technical reports, including series from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Searchable by subject, title, author, series/report number, contract number, GPO stock number, and Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) number.

• Located in the Documents Library. Ask a Documents librarian for assistance.

• The web version of the Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT) indexes U.S. government publications from 1976 - present.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR)

• Published by the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program Office.

• Provides citations with abstracts for aerospace-related reports obtained by NASA from worldwide sources. Searchable by subject, personal author, corporate source, contract number, and report number.

• Located at call number 016.6294SC27 in the Grainger Indexes and Abstracts Collection (holdings include 1963 - 1995).

• The web version of Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports provides indexes (in Adobe PDF files) to aerospace-related reports from 1996 - present. It does NOT provide searching of these indexes.

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