Universal Access
This subject guide identifies principal resources for the unique research needs of cadets, ROTC and Corps faculty, and veterans at Virginia Tech.
Resources listed on this landing page are grouped into Key databases for accessing scholarly and policy literature; Background information sources; Contact information for the subject librarian; and access to Additional information.
Parts of this guide are also available in other subject guides: Data sources for social research; News/journalism/streaming media; Advice for searching/citing/engaging scholarly literatures; and Accessing VT Library resources from off campus.
Encyclopedia of Military Science
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Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics
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Comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of military ethics. Topics in this volume reflect both perennial and pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of the use of military force and are written by established professionals and respected commentators. Subjects are organized by three major perspectives on the use of military force: the decision whether to use military force in a given context, the matter of right conduct in the use of such force, and ethical responsibilities beyond the end of an armed conflict.
The library's Access World News database provides -- and archives -- many news sources, including these service-oriented papers from Military Times. Coverage is selective and in plain text: Content in the traditional print newspapers is published monthly: web edition articles are released daily .
Access World News also provides a handful of newspapers published on US military bases.
For further documents bearing on military history in broader contexts, see the Historical primary sources online topic guide, especially the cross-search tools in the first box.
The University Libraries at Virginia Tech regularly secure short-term, trial access to online resources in order to gauge their appropriateness to our university's teaching and research missions. These trials run in October, February, and sometimes April. Most trials run 30 days.
This box highlights some of these opportunities as they come available. All active trials are listed in a sidebar in the main Databases A-Z directory and as a tab atop this libguide.
Each entry includes a link to a user survey. I and other subject librarians invite you to email us moredetailed assessments of trial resources. Responses from the Virginia Tech community are vital to the library's deliberations about whether and when to acquire or enhance databases and the like.
As appropriate I will list all currently active trials and user survey links in a resource trials tab in this and my other libguides. Entries for trials I may include in here as elsewher in the body of my libguides will go away when the trial period ends.
