A significant amount of applied research in chemistry and chemical engineering is first published in the form of a report. Reports can be defined as documents which contain results and/or progress of development work. The reports are often published by the funding organization or by the academic institution or industrial firm where the work has been carried out. Many reports are openly available, whereas others - such as those about military or commercial developments - are often restricted to a limited and specific group. Restricted reports are often referred to as classified reports. It is important to note that the information in a report has not been refereed , that is evaluated by objective and external experts. A report is typically very detailed and addresses a current problem or development aspect. The information contained in reports is often published in shortened form, somewhat later in journal articles.
SIGLE includes many reports. The Commission of the European
Communities was responsible for assistance in establishing SIGLE
in the early nineteen eighties. Its aim is to improve the
accessibility of grey literature, by combining the resources of
several national information and documentation centres in a
number of EC countries.
These centres are:
Input is also made from the European Commission itself and from Belgium, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain (from 1992 onwards), as well as from Sweden.
SIGLE is available on three online host systems - STN International, BLAISE and SUNIST. The SIGLE database is also available in CD- ROM form from 1992 onwards.
This is published by the National Technical Information
service - NTIS - in
24 issues per year, together with annual indexes and cumulated
indexes. The equivalent online NTIS database which contains
almost two million reports, covers US government-sponsored
research and development from over 300 federal agencies. It
includes a high proportion of reports originating from NASA -
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the DOE -
Department of Energy and the AD (publicly available) reports
series from the Defence Technical Information Centre. The
database covers, amongst other areas, materials, mechanical
engineering, methods and equipment, military sciences and space
technology. NTIS is available online on many international host
systems, such as STN,
DIALOG, EINS.
It is also available in CD-ROM form covering the period from 1980
onwards.
NASA provides a Scientific and Technical Information Server. There is also a NASA Technical Report Server with a keyword search function.
Energy.gov provides a reports bibliographic database which is searchable.
KTU personal reports in chemistry are in the local database "Publications". There are the list of recommended reports for the course participants:
Subject code P000P03 - Chemistry:
Subject code T000T05 - Chemistry Engineering: