Bibliography of Technical Reports

Two regularly issued Office of Technical Services publications serve as guides to the collection of reports the Bibliography of Technical Reports, which is now in its fourth year, fists the reports as they are received and abstracts most of them. Abstracts are grouped by subject matter—for example, under a main division entitled Chemicals and Allied Products are subdivisions such as detergents, plastics, and plasticizers, as may be appropriate to the reports appearing in a given issue. 

Bibliography of Technical Reports, PB 78000, U. S. Department of Commerce, Office of Techni-... 

OTS has two regular publications. The Bibliography of Technical Reports (45) is issued monthly, listing most of the pertinent reports received and abstracting most of those listed. The Technical Reports Newsletter (45), also a monthly publication, is a digest of outstanding technical reports available from federal and other sources. Special emphasis is placed on items of interest to smaller business firms. 

Office of Technical Services, Bibliography of Technical Reports. 

Bibliography of Technical Reports 194) is an important guide with brief abstracts to the many technical reports of investigations made by or for the United States military forces and which have been released since the end of World War II. 

A special guide to the publications known as PB, FIAT, and BIOS reports, many of which are included in references to the literature, is provided in the Bibliography of Technical Reports (115. Lederman and Green (64 give a more detailed explanation of such publications. 

A large part of the PB collection, which consists of data seized by the Allies after World War II and declassified reports of government-sponsored research, is not indexed in standard chemical indexes. Much of the PB collection relates to the chemical industry, and often details of chemical manufacture are disclosed. The prime source for searching the reports is the index to the Bibliography of Technical Reports issued by the Office of Technical Services. Other indexes and search sources are listed in the bibliography and evaluated. 

U. S., General. The PB reports were listed by the Office of Technical Services (OTS) as issued, in its publication. Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports (BSIR), later renamed the Bibliography of Technical Reports (3). The listing of each PB report includes bibliographical data, a brief abstract, and price. The abstracts are arranged by broad subject classes. 

The subject indexes prepared by the Technical Information Seiwice (2 also contain a numerical list of PB reports indexed and a correlation of PB with other series identification numbers for the 2 volumes published. In 1952 Technical Information Service initiated a monthly numerical index of the PB s in each issue of the Bibliography of Technical Reports, starting with Volume 19 (57). The series and sources of reports are also listed and are correlated to PB numbers. Semiannual and annual indexes of these reports are planned. 

Bibliography of Technical Reports. Monthly. Weekly through June, 1948. Formerly Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports name changed with Vol. 12, July, 1949. 

PB Reports Listed in the Bibliography of Technical Reports monthly, February 1953-. 

This report presents a very extensive tabulation of the solvents and solute materials that have been investigated relative to battery systems, and contains a useful bibliography of technical reports in this field. 

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