100,000 Pages of OTA Reports Available -- THE Journal

100,000 Pages of OTA Reports Available

06/01/96

The congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which formally closed its doors last fall, delivered its final legacy to the Congress in the form of a CD-ROM collection of all 755 research reports prepared for the Congress over the agency's 23-year history.

The reports span the science and technology-related subjects covered by the OTA over the years -- including defense, space, energy, environment, education, transportation, health, agriculture, telecommunications and advanced materials.

The collection is fully indexed and stored in portable document format (PDF), readable using Adobe's cross-platform Acrobat reader software.

OTA's CD-ROM collection is available from the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7974, (202) 512-1800. Its Government Printing Office stock number is S/N 052-003-01457-2 and it is priced at $23. Printed copies of other OTA reports are available.

All OTA publications are also available on paper or microfiche from the National Technical Information Service, (703) 487-4650; for rush orders call (800) 553-NTIS.

Finally, many OTA titles are accessible via the archival locations of OTA Online (www.access. gpo.gov/ota), the National Academy of Sciences (www.ota.nap.edu), and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (www.wws.princeton.edu).

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