1. National Technical Information Service

2. NTIS National Technical Information Service National Technical Information Service (NTIS), United States Department of Commerce Established 1945 to collect and provide permanent access to nation’s scientific, technical, engineering and business information and to collect related international information

3. National Technical Information Service Facilitates perpetual public access to Federal information in various formats Assists federal agency compliance with transferring their government information to NTIS under the American Technology Pre-eminence Act (ATPA). ATPA Requires Federal Agencies to transfer their Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Information (STEI) to the National Technical Information Service Develops bibliographic records to aid find-ability Maintains a permanent repository of unclassified scientific, technical, engineering, and business information Collects and disseminates information worldwide Provides customized information services to other agencies

4. General Trends in Dissemination of Physical Media National Technical Information Service

5. The Collection National Technical Information Service Total Documents

6. Customer Feedback Strengths: The NTIS database is focused on government technical reports. The NTIS database is big and covers lots of years Consistent metadata over a long period of time Customer recognition with major commercial suppliers Concerns: Collection is not completely digital Customer confusion about the NTIS role in S&T Source agency confusion about NTIS value to them National Technical Information Service

7. Observations National Technical Information Service Core customers are academic and government libraries. Customers are intermediaries not end-users. Print and PDF orders are mostly corporate. Customers know who we are. Librarians do not generally collect technical reports, but value them highly. Librarians value comprehensive coverage. Sources of reports need to be recognized. Value of the collection is far greater than the value of the document.

8. The Big Goal National Technical Information Service NTIS will be recognized by the technical information community as the leader in must-have government scientific, technical, and engineering content and services with easy to use access, search, discovery, and retrieval tools in a collaborative environment.

9. Big Objectives National Technical Information Service Build a resource for scientific discovery. Ensure that NTIS content is accessible and usable to the widest possible audience. Provide focus to the NTIS content acquisition and preservation strategy. Create a value proposition that encourages Federal Agency participation.

10. Step 1: National Technical Report Library Access to bibliographic records plus full text content from the desktop Broader dissemination possible Subject matter exposure Focus on timeliness, comprehensiveness and current awareness Higher value to source agencies Values the collection as greater than the sum of the documents Subscription based access to library functions Free search of titles from NTIS website National Technical Information Service

11. The Office of Product and Program Development 703-605-6142 Don Hagen dhagn@ntis.gov For more information, please contact National Technical Information Service