Terrorism:

Selected Web Sites, Searching

Tactics and Library Resources

Tony Angiletta, Morrison Curator for the Social

Sciences
Updated May 15, 2009
 Explanatory Note

The following slide show presents some

elementary searching strategies using the Google
search engine, a list of selected links to useful
websites on terrorism and selected bibliographic
and source materials available only to authorized
Stanford users.
Six Simple Dicta on Searching the Web,
Google, Socrates or any Index
• 1. When in doubt, phrases in
quotes
• 2. When in doubt, capitalize
Boolean
• 3. When in doubt, use Advanced
search
• 4. Narrow humongous search
results: by format, by domain suffix
• 5. Supplement index searches with
Google Scholar
I Google, therefore I find…
maybe: Obvious and not so
obvious ways to narrow down (
• 1. Simple Google search on “terrorism”:
3/27/08 = 50,200,000
• 2. Advanced Google search using
“terrorism” and format .pdf :3/27/08 =
433,000
• 3. Advanced Google search using
“terrorism” and domain suffix .edu :
3/27/08 = 404,000
• 4. Advanced Google search using
“terrorism”, domain suffix .edu &
format .pdf : 3/27/08 = 96,200
I Google, therefore I find…may
be: Obvious and not so obvious
ways to narrow down (cont’d)
• 5. Advanced Google search using
“terrorism” in Russian and country
suffix for .ru (Russia)

• 6. Country domain suffixes

• 7. Advanced Google search using

“terrorism” and domain suffix .gov and
.mil (or U.S. Government link)

• 8. Advanced Google search using

“terrorisme” and “bibliographie” and
I Google, therefore I find…
maybe: Obvious and not so
obvious ways to narrow down
(cont’d.)
• 9. Google Scholar search on
“terrorism” : 3/27/08 = 545,000
• 10. Google Scholar search on
“terrorism”: 3/27/08 and
pub dates: 1972-2000 = 38,500
hits; pub dates 2001 – 2006 =
86,100 hits
•11. Google Scholar search on
title“terrorism” in Stanford
subscription to Jane’s Defense
Comparative Terrorism
Citations, 1971-2009
Comparative Terrorism
Citations, 1971-2009
Comparative Terrorism
Citations, 1971-2009
Some Web sites on Terrorism worth a visit.
• 1.
Transactional Records Clearing House (TRAC). Independent watc

– 1a. TRAC Special Report, February 13, 2003

: Criminal Enforcement Against Terrorists
– 1b. TRAC Special Report, December 8, 2003:
Criminal Terrorism Enforcement Since the 9/11/01 Attacks
– 1c. TRAC Report, December, 2006:
Criminal Terrorism Enforcement Since the 9/11/01 Attacks

• 2.
Gilmore Commission: Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capab
Some Web sites
(continued)
• 3.
H-Net site on teaching tragedy, violence
• 4.
Univ. of Minnesota Human Rights Librar
• 5.
United Nations Office for Drug Control a
Some Web sites (continued)

• 6.
Monterey Institute for International Studies. C
• 7.
Center for Non-Proliferation Studies (CBW res
• 8. Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
• 9.
SITE (Search for International Terrorist Entitie
Some Web sites (continued)

• 10.
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Stu
On terrorism.
• 11.
International Relations and Security Network
Resources for terrorism.
• 12. Terrorism Knowledge Base
• 13. Jamestown Foundation
• 14. Terrorism Research Center
• 15. Terrorism: Information Resources
C. Stanford Libraries sites

• 1. Academic Universe (also listed as

Lexis-Nexis). Statistical Universe. Power
Tables. Terrorism. 207 tables on
incidents, public attitudes and agency
budgets.
• 2. Academic Universe. Reference. Polls
and Surveys. Terrorism.
• 3. Polling the Nations, iPoll & Gallup
Brain
• 4. Academic Universe. Legal Research.
C. Stanford Libraries sites
(cont’d)
• 5. EBSCO host Databases; search one
or several databases at the same time.
a. Academic Source Premier
b. Business Source Complete
c. ERIC
d. Medline
e. NTIS
f. EconLit
g. Environmental Issues and Policy Index
C. Stanford Libraries sites
(cont’d)
• 6. CSA Illumina. Search one or
several databases at the same
time.
a. World Political Science Abstracts
b. Sociological Abstracts
c. Environmental Science & Pollution
Mgt.
d. PsycInfo and PsycArticles
C. Stanford Libraries sites
(cont’d)
• 7. Social Sciences Citation Index. SSCI.
• 8. PolicyFile and CIAO
• 9. Newspaper databases/indexes
(Global NewsBank, Historical NYT, Lexis-
Nexis)
• 10. Stanford Dissertations
• 11. Social Science Data and Software
(SSDS). Iterate International terrorism
• 12. Defense & International Security
(Lancaster)
• 13. Jane’s Defence Magazine Library
C. Stanford Libraries sites
(cont’d)
• 14. National and International
Documents
– a. Lexis-Nexis Congressional
– b. Lexis-Nexis Statistical (ASI)
– c. Lexis-Nexis Statistical (IIS)
– d. Congressional Quarterly
(CQ.com) & National Journal
– e.
Congressional Research Service (CRS)