Research Guides: Security Studies: Databases

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Counterinsurgency, Cybersecurity, Cyberterrorism, Foreign Policy, Foreign Relations, Globalization, Grand Strategy, Homeland, Human rights, Intelligence, National Security, Terrorism, Terrorists, Rogue Nations, Rogue States, Failed States, Peacekeeping, WDD, Weapons of Mass Destruction, CBRN, Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear

Security Studies Core Databases

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Subject index to articles, news items and editorials from 63 U.S. military and aeronautical periodicals.
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Vast trove of important declassified U.S. government documents, providing vital primary source material to advance research in twentieth and twenty-first century history, politics, and international relations.
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence This link opens in a new window
Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.
Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new window
Covers over 175 countries and addresses 22 categories of interest to travelers. Includes country maps and images.
Govinfo.gov This link opens in a new window
Provides free online access to official United States Federal Government publications
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.
Janes News This link opens in a new window
Janes News offers the full suite of Janes security events, terrorism, technology and industry reporting capabilities, providing impartial and independent insight across all key defense and security subject areas.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military via a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content.

Multi-disciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to scholarly journals, newspapers, books, and reports.
America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database of articles covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.Includes academic, professional, and trade journals, as well as country economic reports, detailed company profiles, SWOT analyses, market research reports, and product reviews.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Access limited to a maximum of 4 simultaneous users
Provides citations and abstracts of articles in all fields of economics including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
GPO Monthly Catalog This link opens in a new window
Indexing and citations for all types of U.S. government documents
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics portal that provides data on over 80,000 topics from more than 10,000 different sources including agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and much more.
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Global catalog that indexes collections from 72,000 participating libraries in 170 countries.