Academic Library Use of NTIS (National Technical Information Service): Suggestions for Services and Core Collections

摘要

The U.S. National Technical Information Service (NTIS) offers a diverse range of important information resources for the physical, social, behavioral, and life sciences. Indeed, these information resources, available in both print and nonprint formats, constitute an essential type of Federally-distributed information and should not be ignored by information professionals. The manual is intended to assist academic librarians, and other information professionals, in better exploiting these information resources available through NTIS. It offers a number of practical suggestions and strategies for making NTIS information services and products available through academic libraries. The role of academic librarians in assisting the academic community with access to NTIS resources should be a natural and positive one. Both NTIS and the academic library community can work together and increase the range of valuable information resources available to faculty, students, and other clientele served by college and university libraries.