How can I obtain more information about Sandia's history?

Many of Sandia's recent formal technical reports (known as SAND reports) have been made available through the Sandia Technical Library web page. Items are listed by year and are available in pdf format.

Unclassified Department of Energy (DOE) reports and publications have long been available through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), which is the central source for purchasing scientific, technical, and engineering information created by the federal government. The 600,000 products available since 1990 are searchable on the NTIS web site, which also contains information about obtaining older items.

The federal government has made a concerted effort in recent years to release unclassified and declassified records held by its agencies. For example, as part of its Openness Initiative, the Department of Energy established OpenNet. OpenNet lists documents that have been released to the public by DOE and its contractors. It includes documents that were never classified, as well as those declassified as part of DOE's Declassification Initiative. Other information resources created in the Openness Initiative are available from DOE.

DOE has also created a public Information Bridge on the web. It is an electronic collection of DOE-sponsored full-text reports and their bibliographic records. The collection begins with records processed since January 1996. It currently includes over 2 million searchable pages and new DOE pages are added to the collection daily.

DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collects, preserves, disseminates scientific and technical information produced by the Department's researchers and entities. Multiple databases can be searched at a single OSTI site.

Similarly, finding aids and some pdf format documents pertaining to the history of DOE facilities and activities can be found through The Environment, Safety and Health Researcher's Workstation. The workstation concentrates on environment, safety, and health information, but some items of historical interest on other topics are also included.