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Electronic Resources:An Overview

The information we want

The Information Available

Electronic Servicesmade available to you by

the Marshall Center Library

Current Awareness Services(Information Alerts, Info Dienst, Инфосервис)

MERLN

Electronic MaterialsResearch databasesE-book collection

Current Awareness Services

MERLN Portal

• Key U.S. policy papers and links (MiPALs)

• Unique military digital collections

• White papers organized by country

• “Issues at a Glance” – current awareness service

MERLN = Military Education Research Libraries

Network

Range of Electronic Materials

Online collections of government documents

Military and Political AnalysisEconomic and Legal AnalysisReference materials

Collections ofGovernment Documents

Defense Technical Information Center – US government repository of unclassified documents & papers by US government agencies

Digital National Security Archives (DNSA) – Extensive collection of major primary documents from the National Security Archive related to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.

Homeland Security Digital Library – U.S. policy documents, Executive Orders, national strategy documents

PolicyFile – Provides access to US foreign and domestic policy papers from think tanks, research institutes and agencies.

US Arms Transfers Database Search – Arms Sales Monitoring Project's database on U.S. arms exports to find dollar values of U.S. arms transfers to specific country or region.

Military and Political Analysis

CIAO – policy briefs on international affairs theory & research Economic Intelligence Unit – analyses of economic & political trends; Global Forecasting Service FIRST-SIPRI – Covers armed conflicts and peacekeeping, arms production

and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics, etc.

Global Incident Map - terrorism & suspicious events tracked as they occur worldwide

Global Information System – strategic intelligence; terrorist group profiles Jane’s Military & Security Assessments - Political, economic, and military

risk assessment, terrorist and insurgent activity analysis, CBRN information Military Periscope – profiles of terrorist groups Oxford Analytica — Executive Briefs and Country Profiles Stratfor – regional geopolitical analyses by topic Sterling Assynt – regional predictions, news alerts, reports

Economic analysis Economic Intelligence Unit – analyses of economic & political trends; Global Forecasting Service ISI Emerging Markets – financial statements, industry

analyses and macroeconomic statistics

Legal analysis Hein Online – law journal library LexisNexis Academic – world newspapers, broadcast

transcripts, international legal informationElectronic reference

materials Integrum; CQ World PowerBase – Directories East View NIS Statistics; World Data Analyst –

Statistics

Journal and Newspaper Databases

Central and East European online library – focus on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics

East View — journals and newspapers in Russian EBSCOhost Academic Alumni Search – academic journals Hein Online – law journal library Integrum – newspapers, blogs, and media transcripts in Russian Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde (IBLK) – journals in

English and German ISI Emerging Markets – financial statements, industry analyses and

macroeconomic statistics LexisNexis Academic - world newspapers, broadcast transcripts,

international legal information ProQuest – current magazines, journals, newspapers; multiple languages Transitions Online (TOL)- coverage focused on Central & Eastern Europe,

Baltics, Russia, SE Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia & Mongolia

E-book Collection

How to find libraryresources on GlobalNet

• Once you have joined the Research Databases group on GlobalNet, you will have access to these databases

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