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This webpage is a brief overview of some of the online resources available to people researching NASA policies and the policies of other agencies. Lists of databases, document collections, and our current journal subscriptions can be found elsewhere on this website.
All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your Local Library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.
Bibliographies
NASA Aeronautics and Space Database - There are two versions of NASA ASD: one is open to everyone on a nasa.gov computer. The other includes limited documents and requries a password. Both databases include documents from NASA and related agencies, meeting papers, journal articles, and videos. NASA Headquarters employees can contact the Library or CASI for help in using this database.
NASA/DOD Interagency Agreements - full-text of NASA and Department of Defense agreements from 1959 to present. Arranged by DoD and NASA organization name. NASA access only.
NASA GALAXIE - NASA GALAXIE is our library catalog. It includes the collections of most NASA Center libraries. The catalog indexes books, journals, atlases, conferences, books-on-tape, video recordings, software, images, and print and electronic documents. It can only be accessed from a NASA computer. Limited to NASA employees.
NASA General Counsel
NASA History Books - Full-text NASA Special Publications, Historical Reports, Monographs in Aerospace History, and other space history documents posted by the NASA Headquarters History Office.
NASA History Office Topical Index - subject and alphabetical list of
topics in NASA and space history.
NASA History Office, Headquarters - Includes many electronic books.
NASA IT Technical Standards - NASA standards in the 2800 series.
NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) - full-text reports, audits, memoranda, testimony, etc.
NASA Office of Legislative Affairs - congressional hearings and testimony relevant to NASA and NASA's mission.
NASA Office of Logic Design - Full-text NASA reports on digital engineering and programmable technology.
NASA Online Documents - A collection of NASA documents on the web.
NASA Procurement Reference Library - NASA FAR Supplement, Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook, and guidance for submitting unsolicited proposals.
NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program - Search for and
purchase NASA books, technical reports, and video tapes.
NASA Technical Report Server - The NTRS is a publicly accessible subset of the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database. Members of the public should use it to identify NASA reports and books. Some materials are available in full-text. To be complete you should also search the Glenn Technical Report Server and the Dryden Technical Report Server.
NASA Technical Standards - This site has both a public side, which allows users to read NASA's own standards, standards of the Defense Department, and standards of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, and a limited access side, which allows NASA employees to access standards of major technical societies.
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports - Open CRS - "A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain..."
Department of Commerce, Office of Space Commercialization
- Offers speeches, presentations, workshops, and reports on various space business and policy issues.
European Science Foundation (ESF) - Collection of full-text policy briefings, infrastructure studies, reports and position papers by the Foundation, 1998-present.
FAA Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation - Collection of quarterly launch reports, forecasts, licensing, and COMSTAC reports.
Federation of American Scientists Space Policy Project - Collection of full-text space policy documents, a World Space Guide, military space documents, and related resources.
Government Accountability Office - Full-text of GAO reports and testimony, listed by date, agency and topic.
International Trade Commission, Office of Aerospace -
Offers full-text of trade agreements and industry statistics.
National Academy Press - full-text books from the Academies and the National Research Council. For print copies of NASA-related texts, check the library catalog.
National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Reports - full-text of the Board's reports, 1997 to present.
National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy - full-text of the board's reports from 1998 to present.
National Research Council Space Studies Board - full-text of many of the board's reports, 1980s to the present.
National Science Foundation - full-text documents from 1996 to present. Includes statistical reports on science and engineering research, funding, and education.
Office of Management and Budget - OMB circulars, memoranda
and reports.
Office of Science & Technology Policy - recent reports from the office. To see older reports, check the archive.
Office of Technology Assessment - All of the OTA's reports in full- text archived at Princeton. Print copies of many of the reports are available in the library catalog.
Rand Books and Publications - search publications 1946 to present. Some are available free online.
Space Future Papers & Publications - collection of conference papers and published articles on every aspect of space exploration. Many are available in full-text.
NASA Headquarters Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Documents - directives, standards, plans, reference documents, and office work instructions.
NASA Online Directives Information System (NODIS) - Full-text NASA Policy Directives (NPDs), Policy Charters (NPCs), and Procedures and Guidelines (NPGs), formerly known as NHBs and NMIs.
Department of Defense Directives - DOD issuances, directives, instructions, regulations and manuals.
Department of Energy Directives Portal
Department of Transportation Documents - Offers the full-text of DOT dockets, and FAA Regulations, Advisory Circulars, and Airworthiness Directives.
European Cooperation for Space Standardization - Common European standards for space projects.
FAA Documents - Office publications, reports, manuals, plans from the Federal Aviation Administration.
FAA Regulations and Policies
GPO Access - Includes the full-text of the Budget of the U.S. Government, Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, Code of Federal Regulations, bills, laws, hearings, reports, Congressional Record, Economic Indicators, Federal Register, GAO Comptroller General Decisions, US Code, Supreme Court Decisions, U.S. Government Manual, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and Public Papers of the Presidents.
NIST Administrative Manual
NOAA Administrative Orders
Publications of the Headquarters, United States Army Corps of Engineers - A repository for all official USACE engineering regulations, circulars, manuals, and other documents originating from the HQ of the Corps of Engineers.
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