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How to get reports?

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Research reports or technical reports communicate research progress in technology and science. They deliver the results, current status or progress of a research project in industry and research institutions. Normally these reports are not available through booksellers.

The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB Hannover) has a very large stock of foreign research reports but not all of the reports have been recorded in its catalogues. To find research reports you may use the following resources:

To access research reports that are not available online in a full-text version you may contact your library staff. It is easyier to identify and order a report if you know the Report No., Order No. or if applicable the Contract No.

RSC gives recommendations for open science

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The final report of the project “Science as an open enterprise” has been published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in June. The project investigated the use of scientific information. There is a growing amount of scientific data and scientist should take advantage of its potential. The report points some key areas for action out including increased openness, common standards and reusability of published data.

Information Practices in the Physical Sciences

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physicsworld.com reported on a report with the title Collaborative yet independent: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences.
The report shows the variety of ways physicists find, use and disseminate information in seven case studies. Obviously only few researchers use innovative information search and retrieval strategies while they use complex and powerful technology for their research.

“Monica Bulger from the Oxford Internet Institute, who co-authored the report, says that one problem with getting scientists to change how they access information is that they tend to have picked up the “tools” of their field in the lab as graduate students and later only learn new techniques in response to the needs of a particular project.” (http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/48446)