Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center Support

INTERNATIONAL OFFICER SCHOOL CURRICULUM ASSISTANCE

Fairchild Center has assigned a librarian as liaison to IOS. The IOS Librarian can be contacted at:
Telephone: Commercial 334-953-5042     DSN 493-5042
E-mail: Contact the IOS Librarian

DoD web policy does not allow for personally identifiable information on DoD personnel from a publicly accessible web page.

The following are resources that support the International Officers School curriculum.

Some items listed below require access to subscription databases.  If you cannot gain access, contact your local library for availability.
 AU students and faculty can contact the Center's Web Maintainer for a password.

Search Online Catalog and More
Includes Books, PME School papers, Government Documents,
 Articles and Media

Country Information

CIA World Factbook - Facts and statistics on more than 260 countries and includes images of flags.

CountryWatch - Profiles political, economic, corporate and environmental trends for 191 countries and includes real-time news.

U.S. Department of State - Includes country and regional information.

Stratfor.com - Combines intelligence analysis and news archives on various countries.

Country Maps and Flags

Perry-Castaneda Library Maps - Regions, countries, maps of current world events.

MSFRIC Maproom - A wide variety of map links.

Dictionaries and Translators

Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Free online English dictionary, thesaurus, word of the day and pronouncing dictionary.

Merriam-Webster Online - Each word is accompanied by definition, pronunciation, usage, grammatical function and a brief etymology.

OneLook Dictionary - Searches definitions, translations and also all dictionaries.

Promt-Online - Free, automatic translation service.

Magazine and Newspaper Articles

EbscoHost - Articles from over 4,800 journals, over 1000 in full-text.  Includes translation of some articles into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German and other languages.

FirstSearch - Includes French and Spanish search options.

Lexis-Nexis Academic - Click on News.  Offers World News (news from U.S. & international sources).

ProQuest - Summaries of articles from over 8,000 publications, many in full text format.

Periscope - Open source intelligence on orders of battle and equipment inventories for 150 nations.  Also provides technical descriptions and characteristics for more than 4,500 global weapon systems and also includes military aircraft and ship photos.

International Journals at MSFRIC

MSFRIC has over 200 journals from other countries.  Some of these are in languages other than English.  To access these journals, click here.

Online Access to International Newspapers

Kidon Media Link - links to 19,740 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.

ABYZ News Links - Includes newspapers, also many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agency news.

This page was last updated on 06/05/2013 09:22 AM