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Databases for National Security Studies

Academic Search Premier
A scholarly multidisciplinary database of periodical articles, most with full-text.

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
A collection of resources on international affairs with the full-text of over 400 working papers from over 40 institutions worldwide, indexing of several leading journals in the field, conference proceedings and papers, links to selected Web sites, and full-text for selected books from Columbia University Press.

Global Issues (Gale in Context)
Gale in Context: Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.
ITERATE - International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events
The ITERATE project is an attempt to quantify data on the characteristics of transnational terrorist groups, their activities which have international impact, and the environment in which they operate.
1968-2014; Consists of Microsoft Excel files (base and supplemental annual files), plus a codebook and group list in Microsoft Word.
JSTOR (contains Artstor images)
JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. Note that our subscription is for the following collections: Arts & Sciences II and Arts & Sciences III.
Click the Images tab to search Artstor for thousands of images from the arts, architecture, photography, and other disciplines.
Military Database (ProQuest)
The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
This database is included in the Proquest Central database.
PAIS Index – Public Affairs Information Service (ProQuest)
Focuses on literature concerned with public policy. It contains more than 400,000 records representing articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories.
Project Muse
High-quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 university presses and scholarly societies.
ProQuest One Academic
A one-stop gateway to search four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global – on the same user-friendly ProQuest platform.
Scopus
A major index for scientific, medical, technical, and social science journals - over 16,000 of which are peer reviewed. It also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references, and details on the number of citations each published document has received. It provides citation data for all 22,500 active titles such as journals, conference proceedings and books in Scopus and provides an alternative to the impact factor.
War & Terrorism (Gale OneFile)
War and Terrorism Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.

Supplementary Databases for National Security Studies

Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (ProQuest)
Full-text database covering comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary.
America: History & Life
Focuses on the history of the United States and Canada from early times to present day. Includes related disciplines such as sociology, popular culture, gender issues, anthropology, literature, folklore, history of various disciplines, etc. (5 simultaneous users)
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. It contains more than 10,000 quality, peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
EIU ViewsWire - Economist Intelligence Unit (ProQuest)
This newsletter provides expert analysis of the political, economic, business, financial, and regulatory conditions for countries worldwide. From within the ProQuest ABI/Inform publication page, select "Browse by subject" and then the "Browse by Location" tab to display the list of countries.
IBSS – International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
An index to social science and interdisciplinary research, IBSS covers journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International Law
A comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. Written and edited by an incomparable team of over 800 scholars and practitioners, published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and updated throughout the year, this major reference work is essential for anyone researching or teaching international law.
ScienceDirect Social & Behavioral Sciences, College Edition
Provides basic search and full text to more than 350 Elsevier journals in areas such as business, economics, sociology, and psychology.
Science of Security Search Page
This initiative promotes foundational cybersecurity science that is needed to mature the cybersecurity discipline and to underpin advances in cyberdefense. Search for papers, events, and other items of interest.
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
Replaces Sociological Abstracts as the premier database in the area of sociology. It covers the content from Sociological Abstracts and provides additional full-text of books, conference papers, and articles, as well as back files which in some cases extend back to 1895.
Statista
Specializing in consumer and market data, Statista provides access to statistics from a wide range of topics. Access data sets, charts, infographics, survey results, studies, forecasts and more through Statista.