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This updated research guide contains selected print and online resources available through the Monmouth University Library, useful for locating information about Homeland Security.

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Best Bet Databases for Homeland Security

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains more than 300,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for more than 200 magazines and journals as well full text books & monographs. Hosted on the EBSCOhost platform.
Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Criminology and criminal justice - journal articles
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,700 scholarly journals. HeinOnline provides topic specific databases including all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law among others. Full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase is included.
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
composed of homeland security related documents collected from a wide variety of sources. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies.
TRAC:Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium This link opens in a new window
a comprehensive, live intelligence repository / e-research center eight years in the making. Designed for use by government and defense professionals, scholarly researchers, students, and the general public,
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. Hosted on the EBSCOhost platform.

Legal Databases

Westlaw Campus Research Law, News and Business This link opens in a new window
Students can work more efficiently and productively, and with more confidence, with Thomson Reuters Westlaw Campus Research, a premier research service for the legal, news, and business-related information they need.
NexisUni (LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive source for current news (international, national and regional), legal research (cases and statutes, law reviews, news), business research (news, company information), medical information (news, journal articles, Medline abstracts) and basic reference tools.

Newspaper Databases

Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full text of U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and newswires.

Top Homeland Security Journals

Homeland Security Affairs
Homeland Security Affairs is the peer-reviewed online journal of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), providing a forum to propose and debate strategies, policies, and organizational arrangements to strengthen U.S. homeland security. The instructors, participants, alumni, and partners of CHDS represent the leading subject matter experts and practitioners in the field of homeland security.
Intelligence and National Security
This scholarly journal focuses on the role of intelligence and secretive agencies in international relations. It examines this aspect of national security from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines, with insightful articles research and written by leading experts based around the globe.
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This journal has full text availability for journals labeled “Open Access.” All other titles can be requested via Interlibrary loan. When searching on this journal, use the Access Type filter “Only show content I have full access to” or look for the Open Access icon in the results page.
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism publishes theoretical and empirical studies that contribute to a better understanding of the causes of terrorism and insurgency as well as the measures required to achieve their resolution. The journal addresses security challenges fueled by religious and nationalist strife, moribund peace processes, disputes over natural resources, and transnational organized crime.
Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression addresses the complex causation and effects of terrorist activity by bringing together timely, scientifically and theoretically sound papers addressing terrorism from a behavioral science perspective.
Disaster Prevention and Management
Disaster Prevention and Management aims to offer diverse critical perspectives on all dimensions of disasters.
The Journal of Conflict Resolution
The Journal of Conflict Resolution is an interdisciplinary journal of social scientific research and theory on human conflict. The journal focuses largely on international conflict, but also explores a variety of national, intergroup and interpersonal conflicts.
Journal of Peace Research
Journal of Peace Research (JPR) is at the forefront of serious academic research in conflict studies.
Journal of Strategic Security
The Journal provides a multi-disciplinary forum for scholarship and discussion of strategic security issues drawing from the fields of global security, international relations, intelligence, terrorism and counterterrorism studies, among others.
Journal of Security, Intelligence, and Resilience Education
Founded in 2012, The Journal of Security, Intelligence, and Resilience Education (JSIRE) is a peer-reviewed online journal that captures the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of homeland security, emergency management, and intelligence education. (Formerly the Journal of Homeland Security Education)
Security Dialogue
Security Dialogue seeks to revisit and recast the concept of security through new approaches and methodologies. It encourages ground-breaking reflection on new and traditional security issues such as globalization, nationalism, ethnic conflict and civil war, information technology, biological and chemical warfare, resource conflicts, pandemics, global terrorism, non-state actors and environmental and human security.
Security Studies
Security Studies publishes leading scholarship in the field of international security, broadly construed.

Additional journal titles can be found by clicking on the Locating Journals tab on this page.