UCB Libraries

Homeland Security

• The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to member of Congress. Search these CRS Reports CU through LexisNexis. Use terms like "homeland security" or "terrorism."
• Department of Homeland Security is charged with "coordinating national strategy to strengthen protections against terrorist threats or attacks in the United States." This site provides information on the four divisions (Border and Transportation Security, Infrastructure Protection, Emergency Preparedness, and Response and Bioterrorism Countermeasures) as well as speeches, white papers, and related supporting materials.
• DTIC - Defense Technical Reports This database contains the technical reports dealing with defense issues. Many of these reports are available full-text, but those that are not should be available in the government publications library, please bring the title to the reference desk for help.
• Federal Emergency Management Agency provides information on how to prepare for emergency.
• GAO Special Collections - Homeland Security selected GAO reports on homeland security issues.
• National Security Council This is a division of the White House that brings together all the administrative leaders to work with the President to discuss issues of national security and foreign policy.
• HHS - Disasters & Emergencies offers plans for disasters and emergencies.
• Homeland Security Digital Library CU This database provides access to collected government or government-sponsored research on Homeland Security.
• Ready.gov is developed by the Department of Homeland Security. It is to help the public better prepared for the threat of a terrorists' attack.
• House Committee on Homeland Security This is the house committee that discusses homeland security issues. For more complete indexing of the hearings and reports of this committee check out LexisNexis Congressional CU
• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs This is the house committee that discusses homeland security issues. For more complete indexing of the hearings and reports of this committee check out LexisNexis Congressional CU
• Threat Advisory Level

• CQ Electronic Library CU This database has articles, data, and information on American politics, history and current affairs.
• FAS-Strategic Security Program This is a collection of resources from the Federation of American Scientists on strategic security program with resources on arm sales, biosecurity, government secrecy, and much more.
• LexisNexis Academic CU This database contains the full-text of numerous regional, national, and foreign newspapers.
• MIPT - Terrorism Information Center The Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) has developed this collection of resources on terrorism. Including the Global Terrorism Database.

Resources in the Catalog

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on homeland security available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  disaster* and statistics	disaster* and statistics
  civil defense and trends	civil defense and trends
  terrorism and histor*	terrorism and histor*
  homeland security (government publications only)	homeland security (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Foreign Relations and International Aid
• Military
• War against Terrorism