Homeland Security Digital Library - HSDL
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
The HSDL is 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. Resources are carefully selected and evaluated by a team of librarians and subject-matter specialists. See our how the HSDL works page for details about our people and our IT framework.
Access to the following resources is open and does not require authentication:
- Limited HSDL Collection: contains over 45800 U.S. Federal Government documents as well as academic theses from federal government institutions.
- Policy & Strategy Section: direct access to key U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, national strategy documents, major legislation, and executive orders.
- HSDL Blog: On the Homefront: a synopsis of the most recent reports and issues in homeland security. The blog also includes a calendar of upcoming conferences and events.
- Blog Search: a single search across the best homeland security-related blogs and bloggers.
- Homeland Security Grants: where to find homeland security grants and grant-writing assistance.
- Books and Journals: pointers to commercial sources of homeland security-related research.
The limited HSDL Collection is a collection of federal government documents. It is a subset of the much larger, full HSDL Collection, that includes resources from state and local agencies, research institutions, think tanks, non-profits and more.
Rights
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Unless otherwise restricted by login, all information on this site is public domain and may be distributed or copied, unless specified as otherwise, and therefore subject to any indicated copyright restrictions and normally accepted procedures for properly crediting sources. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.
Coverage
1941-present
Date
September 13, 2010
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Resource provides open access publishing opportunities and open access publications.
Resource provides self archiving opportunities and open access documents.Warning
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