Page 13 of NTIS Database Search Guide by National Technical Information Service

online searching hints the ntis database search guide 13 translations each year ntis announces approximately 1,000 translations received from and funded by government agencies prior to 1976 all translations except those originating with doe and nasa were assigned the descriptor translations since 1976 doe and nasa translations also have been indexed with translations see also listing under foreign language maps the descriptor maps is used whenever maps are an integral part of a report reports describing the way maps are made are indexed with the descriptor mapping patents all u.s government patents and patent applications entered into the ntis database are assigned either patents or patent applications in the descriptor or title note field some online vendors display it as the document type field verbalization all subscripts superscripts greek letters scientific and mathematical formulae are fully spelled out in the abstract of the record example alpha beta gamma etc peroxide appears as h2o2 or h sub 2 o sub 2 water appears as h2o or h sub 2 o sponsoring agency keyword acronyms effective with ntis database issue 7309 may 1973 ntis placed an acronym representing the report s sponsoring organizations in the identifier field this information can also be found by entering the agency name as a search term in the corporate source/sponsoring agency field beginning with ntis database issue 7419 october 1974 the agency acronyms are prefixed with the ntis acronym examples ntisde department of energy ntisdod department of defense ntisnasa nasa ntiscomnbs national institute of standards technology nist note this acronym combines the department of commerce and the former agency name of national bureau of standards nbs these codes are helpful when searching for sponsoring organizations rather than performing organizations or to find all reports submitted to ntis by one specific agency note although a complete list of these source agency acronyms is not available the meaning of an agency acronym often may be determined from the corporate source field superfund the u.s environmental protection agency epa administers the superfund program which was established in 1980 with the passage of the comprehensive environmental response compensation and liability act cercla in 1986 congress passed the superfund amendment and reauthorization act sara which updated and improved cercla all publicly available documents from the office of emergency and remedial response oerr are available from ntis hint use the descriptor superfund to locate relevant documents such as superfund record of decision reports 13

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