Pfeiffer Library: Homeland Security: Search Options

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Are you looking for a specific database? Try our A to Z list.

These library provided databases are your best bets! Again, make sure you know your university credentials to utilize these resources off-campus.

International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of the issues.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Citations and full-text of articles covering comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory.
Peace Research Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Article citations related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts of articles from political science journals.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

These free web resources may also prove useful.

Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Policy-related documents on homeland security.
UNdata This link opens in a new window
From the United Nations, this international database is searchable and includes several different types of statistics, including population, business, health, and housing.

CIA World Factbook
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for more than 265 world entities.
CIA Electronic Reading Room
Search declassified documents of the CIA as part of the Freedom of Information Act.
RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents
Compilation of data from 1972 through 2009.
National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
NVD is the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance. NVD includes databases of security checklists, security related software flaws, misconfigurations, product names, and impact metrics.
National Security Archive
Combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents, leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.
Human Security Report Project
The HSRP tracks global and regional trends in organized violence, their causes and consequences.

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