Basic Information Sources:  Terrorism

Jean Wells
Reference Librarian
Dacus Library
June, 2008

Locating Information in Dacus Library Online :

Dacus Library's online catalog (DOC) allows information to be accessed by author, title and subject.  Choose the AUTHOR or TITLE search modes to quickly locate a specific book.  Choose the SUBJECT search mode to find books on topics.  You can also use DOC to find out if Dacus owns any particular journal.  Choose the JOURNAL search mode, then type in the exact title of the  journal.  DOC will tell you if we subscribe to that journal and where we keep it.

Search DOC now by choosing a subject heading from the list below:

Reference Books:

Encyclopedia of Terrorism (Ref. HV6431 .C65 2007)

Encyclopedia of World Terrorism (Ref HV6431 .E53 2003)

Extremist Groups: Information for Students 2 vols. (Ref. HN90. R3 .E975 2006 .

Historical Dictionary of Terrorism (Ref HV6431 .A537 2002)

Patterns of Global Terrorism 1985-2005: U.S. Department of State Reports. (Ref HV6431 .P3773 2005).

Talking Terrorism:  A Dictionary of the Loaded Language of Political Violence (Ref HV6431 .H455 2003)

Terrorism, 1996-2001: A Chronology (Ref HV6431 .M4992 2002)

Terrorism, 2002-2004: A Chronology, 3 vols.(Ref HV6431 .M4993 2006)

Terrorism: A Documentary and Reference Guide (Ref HV6432 .B87 2005).

Terrorism:  A Documentary History (Ref HV6431 .T4594 2003)

Terrorism:  A Guide to Events and Documents (Ref HV6431 .K698 2004)

Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources (Ref. HV6431 .T465 2006).

Online Databases:

From Dacus Library Online you can access various online databases.  Many of the journal articles in Academic Search Premier,   InfoTrac and LexisNexis Academic are full-text.  You may be particularly interested in the Academic OneFile database in InfoTrac and the News database in LexisNexis Academic.  You can also access various citation indexes such as America History and Life and Historical Abstracts.  These will not give you the full text of the article, but will give you information about the article so that you can search in DOC to see if Dacus subscribes to the journal the article is in.

World Wide Web Sites:

Many Web sites dealing with terrorism can be found by searching Internet Search Engines such as AltaVista, Google, or Yahoo.  A list of links to Search Engines with basic instructions for use can be found  on the Dacus Research Guide "Internet Search Engines".

News Sites:

• ABC News ( http://www.abcnews.go.com/ )
• BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/ )
• CBS News ( http://www.cbsnews.com/ )
• CNN ( http://www.cnn.com/ )
• Fox News ( http://www.foxnews.com/ )
• International Herald Tribune ( http://www.iht.com/ )
• MSNBC ( http://www.msnbc.com/) 
• Yahoo News ( http://news.yahoo.com/ )

Specialized Sites:

• United Nations ( http://www.un.org/ )
• U.S. State Department ( http://www.state.gov/ )
• U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency ( http://www.fema.gov/ )
• U.S. Homeland Security ( www.hsdl.org )
• The Anti-Defamation League ( http://www.adl.org/ )
• News Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence ( http://www.borrull.org/e/inici.htm )
• Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism ( http://www.state.gov/s/ct/)
• The Terrorism Research Center ( http://www.terrorism.com/ )