LibGuides: Social Science & Public Policy: Security Studies

Databases and Ebook Collections

These are a few other databases and ebook collections that you can access through the King's Libraries and Collections subscriptions. This is not an exhaustive list, but a few selected useful platforms.

JSTOR
JSTOR offers academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Praeger Security International Online
Electronic online resource covering international security. It includes a range of resource types, like reference articles, biographies, speeches and government documents. To access it, please look up the password at the following page: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/library/passwords
Digital National Security Archive
This resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews.
Proquest Social Science Premium Collection
Proquest Social Science Premium Collection is a platform through which a number of separate databases can be searched, many of which are useful within the School.

The databases have strong coverage across social sciences, including in international relations.

Other Resource Types

Faculti
Faculti is a platform with short videos providing academic insight into key subjects and questions. There is a section covering war and conflict studies.

UK Press Online
UKPressOnline is an online database containing as-published pages from the back catalogues of some of the world's leading newspaper titles, including the Daily Express and Daily Mirror. The content covers a date range from 1835 to present and is searchable using headlines, keywords or date.

START National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and the Responses to Terrorism
START is a network of scholars conducting research into all aspects of terrorism. Under the publications tab you can find a range of publications, both academic (e.g. journal articles, conference papers etc) and grey literature (e.g. reports, fact sheets, etc). Some, but not all, of the academic publications are available through our subscriptions.