“The National Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion Ser­vice (NTIS) of the U.S. Depart­ment of Com­merce has announced the launch of the next gen­er­a­tion National Tech­ni­cal Reports Library Ver­sion 3.0, also known as NTRL V3.0.

The NTRL V3.0 is now pub­licly avail­able after two years of research and devel­op­ment. Through the util­i­sa­tion of the open-source plat­form Fedora/SOLR, the NTRL V3.0 builds upon the suc­cesses of pre­vi­ous iter­a­tions by offer­ing the pub­lic online access to the large NTIS repos­i­tory of sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion through the use of enhanced func­tion­al­i­ties, fea­tures and improved display.

The NTIS repos­i­tory con­sists of over 2 mil­lion bib­li­o­graphic records rep­re­sent­ing bil­lions of dol­lars in federally-funded research per­formed over the past 70 years with a broad scope of Sci­en­tific, Tech­ni­cal & Engi­neer­ing Infor­ma­tion (STEI) sub­ject cov­er­age. NTIS sought to improve dis­sem­i­na­tion of STEI, and eco­nomic, social and envi­ron­men­tal infor­ma­tion by per­ma­nently enlarg­ing, pre­serv­ing and pro­vid­ing ready access to its repository.

The NTIS seeks to actively col­lect, pre­serve and dis­sem­i­nate STEI and other infor­ma­tion thereby sup­port­ing the Depart­ment of Com­merce mis­sion to pro­mote U.S. eco­nomic growth by pro­vid­ing access to infor­ma­tion that stim­u­lates inno­va­tion and dis­cov­ery. The NTRL V3.0 rep­re­sents the NTIS com­mit­ment to ensur­ing access to this invalu­able repos­i­tory is afford­able, con­ve­nient, and widely avail­able to the aca­d­e­mic, cor­po­rate, library and gov­ern­ment com­mu­ni­ties, and to the public-at-large.

The NTRL V3.0 was devel­oped by the Fed­eral Sci­ence Repos­i­tory Ser­vice (FSRS) a public-private part­ner­ship between NTIS and Infor­ma­tion Inter­na­tional Asso­ciates, Inc. (IIa) of Oak Ridge, TN. The intent of the public-private part­ner­ship was to cre­ate an Insti­tu­tional Repos­i­tory (IR) Ser­vice for fed­eral agencies.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, May 16, 2012