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Library Resources by College: Military Studies

This faculty guide features key library resources arranged by college.

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Research Guides

The following guide offers suggestions for finding articles, e-books, and websites for student research.

Library Resource Lists

See the following documents for a list of the library's full-text military studies resources by database.

Resources for Live Lectures

Live Lecture Presentations

Librarians are available to present during your live lectures. Use this form to request a presentation:

Videos

These videos can be used in live course lectures to introduce the library and its services to students:

Ashley explains how librarians can help students with their library research and gives a brief overview of helpful resources on the library homepage.

This short video gives students a quick tour of the CSU Library.

Library Tutorials

These tutorials can be linked in course materials to assist students with their research.

Key Databases

This list of databases is the library's "best bets" for research within this subject area.

This resource provides peer-reviewed journal articles as well as other documents focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada. 

Military & Government Collection is a database of full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers.

This database includes scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. 

This database covers conflicts, policies, and political relationships within the global arena, offering a variety of video and print materials on more than forty events and themes of terrorism, counterterrorism, insurgency, counterinsurgency, ethnic conflicts, and more.

This database includes access to resources on global conflict, including trade/professional publications, reports, and peer-reviewed journals. 

Videos

Films on Demand houses a collection of streaming video titles from both academic and mainstream producers such as films for the Humanities and Sciences, PBS, A&E, History Channel, BBC, National Geographic, and others.

The best part about Films on Demand?  You can share videos from Films on Demand in your courses without worrying about copyright restrictions.

To share Films on Demand videos with your students, select "Share" beneath the video and copy the "Record URL" link:

For instructions on creating custom video segments in Films on Demand, see the following guide: