NASA REPORTS

Examples: 

To obtain a NASA report published prior to 1995 obtain the NASA Accession Number (e.g. N75-17011) , then locate the file cabinet, drawer and search by consecutive numbers.

NASA reports published from 1996 on are filed by SERIES. Series include:

• Conference Publications (CP), 
• Contractor Reports (CR),
• Educational Publications (EP),
• Reference Publications (RP),
• Special Publications (SP),
• Technical Memorandum (TM),
• Technical Notes (TN),
• Technical Papers (TP),
• Technical Reports (TR).

These are filed alphabetically first by the full series name if abbreviated ( i.e. NASA-Case, NASA-CP, NASA-CR, NASA-EP, NASA-RP, NASA-SP, NASA-TM, NASA-TN etc), then by the year of publication, if present, and finally by the NASA Record Number.

To search for NASA-Technical Memorandum-50734: Look under NASA-TM-50734, and also under NASA-TM-[Year]-50734 or NASA-Technical Memorandum-1998-50734. The YEAR, if present, may be represented as two or four digits.

• A report published in the later months of a year may be indexed with the next year
• If the first search does not locate the fiche, reconstruct the search using other variables
• Additional NASA documents my be added to this collection as they become unclassified
• A fiche reader is available on the 3rd floor West of the Science and Engineering Library
• If print-outs are required the fiche may be checked out manually for a one month loan period
• Fiche Reader/Printers ($0.05 per page) are available in the Du Bois Library Learning Commons
• Documents not owned by the university may be requested on Interlibrary Loan