The Homeland Security Digital Library (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 Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents.

Our Mission

Our mission is to support local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs and assist academics of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research.

The HSDL Collection

The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy. HSDL content includes state-of-the-art multi-media offerings and other valuable assets identified by CHDS master's degree participants and instructors.

The HSDL collection is accessible using full-text searching and browsing with Advanced Search and Browse by topics based on a unique homeland security taxonomy. In addition, one can filter results by topic, geographic region or event.

Special Features

The HSDL has additional features to meet your homeland security research needs:

• SeekOnce: a meta-search engine which enables searching across more than 50 article databases. The databases represent a wide range of web-based resources from NASA to RAND to Medline Plus, as well as library catalogs.
• A quick link reference page: efficiently organized direct access to the most popular homeland security documents
    Federal reports
    Federal policy documents
    Major legislation
    Presidential directives and executive orders
    National strategy documents
    Research reports, thesis, and dissertations
    Speeches and seminal documents
• On the Homefront News and Reports with links to newly released reports, breaking news stories, and a calendar of up-coming homeland security related conferences and events.
• Ask a Librarian

Access to the HSDL

We invite all homeland security policy planners, strategists, researchers, scholars, managers and first responders to use the HSDL.