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• Advanced Manufacturing Series (AMS)

  This series consists of reports, guides, recommendations, specifications, use cases, and data management methods related to the design, planning, implementation and operation of advanced manufacturing. Topics cover, but are not limited to, additive manufacturing, advanced composites, digital manufacturing, flexible hybrid electronics, integrated photonics, lightweight metals, and smart manufacturing. AMS is divided into subseries for specific groups and document types.

• NBS Building and Housing, 1922-1932

  This series disseminates technical information developed at NIST on building materials, components, systems, and whole structures. The series presents research results, test methods, and performance criteria related to the structural and environmental functions and the durability and safety characteristics of building elements and systems.

• NBS Building and Materials Structures, 1938-1959

  This series disseminates technical information developed at NIST on building materials, components, systems, and whole structures. The series presents research results, test methods, and performance criteria related to the structural and environmental functions and the durability and safety characteristics of building elements and systems.

• NBS/NIST Building Science Series, 1965-2009

  This series disseminates technical information developed at NIST on building materials, components, systems, and whole structures. The series presents research results, test methods, and performance criteria related to the structural and environmental functions and the durability and safety characteristics of building elements and systems.

• NBS Commercial Standards Monthly, 1925-1933

  The Commercial Standards Monthly periodical was a review of progress in commercial simplification and standardization. It covered the national movement initiated by President Herbert Hoover for the reduction of needless sizes and varieties of products and the promotion of voluntary commercial standardization by industry.

• NIST Economic Analysis Briefs

  This series discusses and analyzes economic issues related research, development, transfer, and impact of federal research, particularly scientific research performed by NIST. These analysis briefs often accompany in-depth economic research and facilitate the usage of this analysis by NIST and stakeholders throughout the science and technology transfer policy communities. As such, a key aim of these Briefs is to communicate economic results in an accessible and non-technical manner. Topics frequently include: economic rationales for government science; characterization and measurement of market failures; economic impact studies; strategic planning studies.

• NIST Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS)

  Publications in this series collectively constitute the Federal Information Processing Standards Register. The Register serves as the official source of information in the Federal Government regarding standards issued by NIST pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 as amended, Public Law 89-306 (79 Stat. 1127), and as implemented by Executive Order 11717 (38 FR 12315, dated May 11, 1973) and Part 6 of Title 15 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations).

• NIST Grant/Contract Reports

  This series reports work of an outside person or organization working under grant or contract from NIST whose contract report has sufficient technical merit to be made publicly available.

• NIST Handbooks

  Recommended codes of engineering and industrial practice (including safety codes) developed by NIST in cooperation with interested industries, professional organizations, and regulatory bodies.

• NBS/NIST Interagency or Internal Reports, 1972-Present

  Interim or final reports on work performed by NIST for outside sponsors (both government and non-government). May also report results of NIST projects of transitory or limited interest, including those that will be published subsequently in more comprehensive form.

• NBS Letter Circulars

  The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Letter Circulars 1-1040 are mimeographed, irregularly published lists of NBS publications and references, and general information concerning specific subjects upon which popular interest had been demonstrated by inquiries addressed to NBS. Beginning with Letter Circular 1041, the series changed from a report format to that of brochures, booklets, and charts.

• NBS Miscellaneous Publications, 1903-1968

  This series includes proceedings of conferences sponsored by NIST, NIST annual reports, and other special publications appropriate to this grouping such as wall charts, pocket cards, and bibliographies.

• NBS/NIST Monographs, 1959-1999

  Major contributions to the technical literature on various subjects related to NIST’s scientific and technical activities.

• NIST National Construction Safety Team Act Reports, 2005-2014

  This series comprises the reports of investigations carried out under Public Law 107-231, the technical cause(s) of the building failure investigated; any technical recommendations for changes to or the establishment of evacuation and emergency response procedures; any recommended specific improvements to building standards, codes, and practices; and recommendations for research and other appropriate actions to help prevent future building failures.

• NBS/NIST National Standard Reference Data Series (NSRDS), 1964-2016

  The National Standard Reference Data Series provides quantitative data on the physical and chemical properties of materials, compiled from the world's literature and critically evaluated. Developed under a worldwide program coordinated by NIST under the authority of the National Standard Data Act (Public Law 90-396).

• NBS/NIST Special Publications, 1968-Present

  This series includes proceedings of conferences sponsored by NIST, NIST annual reports, and other special publications appropriate to this grouping such as wall charts, pocket cards, and bibliographies.

• NBS Technical Information on Building Materials, 1936-1938

  The Technical Information on Building Materials For Use In The Design of Low-Cost Housing publications were a series of reports published by the National Bureau of Standards from 1936 to 1938. They consisted of detailed information about materials used in low-cost housing destruction, including different metals and corrosion rates, concrete and masonry, paint specifications, plaster usage, and waterproofing.

• NBS/NIST Technical Notes, 1959-Present

  Studies or reports which are complete in themselves but restrictive in their treatment of a subject. Analogous to monographs but not so comprehensive in scope or definitive in treatment of the subject area. Often serve as a vehicle for final reports of work performed at NIST under the sponsorship of other government agencies.

• Technology Transfer Briefs

  This series disseminates information related to the field of technology transfer. Topics cover, but are not limited to: non-empirical research results, case studies, posters, charts, best practices, general knowledge, success stories, data sets, and conference summaries. This brief may be used to formally discuss any technology transfer mechanism without the requirement of formal statistical, economic, or econometric analysis.

• Technology Transfer Briefs

  This series disseminates information related to the field of technology transfer. Topics cover, but are not limited to: non-empirical research results, case studies, posters, charts, best practices, general knowledge, success stories, data sets, and conference summaries. This brief may be used to formally discuss any technology transfer mechanism without the requirement of formal statistical, economic, or econometric analysis.

• NIST Trustworthy and Responsible AI

  This series includes documents describing novel research, guidance, frameworks, roadmaps, and exploratory papers in the area of research development, standards and evaluations for Trustworthy and Responsible AI. Within this Series are Subseries for specific groups and document types, including NIST AI 100: Reports; NIST AI 200: Guides; NIST AI 300: Recommendations and Specifications; NIST AI 400: Use Cases and Test Packages; NIST AI 500: Data Management Methods; NIST AI 600: AI Risk Management Profile; and NIST AI 700: Evaluation Reports.