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A large number of aerospace e-technical reports are frequently referred by the aerospace scientists and engineers for their day to day research work. A survey study was undertaken to ascertain the most frequently used aerospace e-technical reports amongst 16 selected aerospace organizations of Bangalore. The study is restricted to geographic boundary of the city of Bangalore. Out of the 650 survey questionnaires distributed to the scientists and engineers, a total number of 612 were received back and finally 583 responses found suitable were selected for the study. The total responses usable from all the 16 aerospace organizations amounted to 89.7 percent. The analysis is based purely on the responses received from the aerospace scientists and engineers representing these selected aerospace organizations. The responses from the participants towards the extent of use of the e-technical reports were graded on a scale of 4 to 0, 4 representing to a great extent. The major findings that the authors would like to report in this paper are: The most frequently referred aerospace engineering e-technical reports by these scientists and engineers are: (a) ‘USA, NASA’, followed by, (b) ‘USA, AIAA’, (c) ‘Indian NAL’, (d) ‘AGARD’, (e) ‘British ARC and RAE’, (f) ‘ESA’, (g) ‘French ONERA’, (h) ‘German DFVLR, DLR and MBB’, (i) ‘Dutch NLR’, (j) ‘Russian TaAGI’, and, finally, (k) ‘Japanese NAL’. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied for testing the significant difference among the mean scores attained from 16 aerospace organizations towards the ‘Use of e-Technical Reports’. It is observed that all the 16 aerospace organizations show a significant difference (P < 0.05) in their mean scores viz., ‘AGARD’, ‘British ARC and RAE’, ‘ESA’, ‘Indian NAL’, ‘German DFVLR’, DLR and MBB’, ‘Japanese NAL’, ‘Russian TaAGI’, ‘Dutch NLR’, ‘USA, NASA’ and ‘USA, AIAA’, except for ‘French ONERA’ (P = 0.092).
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical report
Kathleen, G.,What are Technical Reports: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/collect/techrpt.html# What%20are%20Technical%20Reports, 2008.
Gleeson, A.C., "Information sEeking Behavior of Scientists and their Adaption to Electronic Journals", Masters Paper for the M. S. in Library Science Degree, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001.
Curtis, K. L., Weller, A.C. and Hurd, J.M., "Information Seeking Behavior of Health Sciences Faculty: The Impact of New Information Technologies", Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1997, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 402-410.
Michel, J., "The Production and Use of Information by Engineers and Scientists in the American Aerospace Industry", Documentaliste; 1990, Vol. 27, No.3, pp.158-160.
O’Bryant, F., "Searching for Technical Reports", Brown Science and Engineering, Library, University of Virginia Library, http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/ content.php?pid=16749&sid=130807
Pinelli, T. E., Barclay, R. O. and Kennedy, J. M., "The Use of Selected Information Products and Services by US Aerospace Engineers and Scientists : Results of Two Surveys", http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search. jsp, http: //handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA276068,1994.
Pinelli, T.E. et al., "The Relationship between Seven Variables and the Use of U.S. Government Technical Reports by U.S. Aerospace Engineers and Scientists. In: ASIS ’91. Systems Understanding People". Proceedings of the 5Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Vol.28, Washington, D.C., (Ed) Jose-Marie Griffiths, Med-ford, Learned Information, Inc., for American Society for Information Science, 1991, pp. 313-321.
Swarna, T., Kalyane, V.L. and Kumar, V., "Scientometric Dimensions of Technical Reports from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre", Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 2002, Vol.7, No.1, pp.17-30.
Walker, R. D., Use made of U.S. Government Supported Technical Reports by Researchers in Water resources, School of Library and Information Studies and Water Resources Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Journal of Government Information, 1994, Vol.21, No.4, pp.335-349 . 11. Guruprasad, R. and Nikam, K., "Use Patterns of Electronic Information Resources by Aerospace Scientists and Engineers in Bangalore: A Study", Doctoral Thesis submitted to the University of Mysore, 2010, (Unpublished).