Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)

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Overview

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) provides access to declassified U.S. government documents from 1945-2013. The resource now includes 48 collections consisting of approximately 120,000 indexed documents focusing on national security topics, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. Intelligence after 9/11, and the Vietnam War.

The collection contains policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material.

Provider:

ProQuest

Posted:

Feb 13, 2015 11:58am

Updated:

Jan 1, 2017 12:05am

Source

CRL reviews are based on independent research. Information is researched by CRL staff and other specialists at CRL libraries. See CRL Review for additional source notes.

Details

Collection Content

Subject Areas:

Arts and Humanities

Social Sciences

Resource Types:

Archival materials

Government publications

Government records

Reports

Major Languages:

English

- Denotes data sourced directly from publisher

Content Details:


Topics covered	Post WWII U.S. foreign policy regarding national security; espionage and Intelligence; nuclear history; terrorism; the Vietnam War; and the Presidential administrations of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush.	This is a partial list. There are 48 separate collections covering many different topics.
Geographic coverage	Afghanistan, Argentina, China, Cuba, El Salvador, Iran, Iraq, Japan, North and South Korea, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, South Africa, Soviet Union
Chronological coverage	1945-2013
Source format(s)	PDF, microfiche
Total titles	120,000	Approximate
Total pages	775,000
Major language (s)	English, Spanish	95% English,
Digital collection launch date	2001
Completion date	None
Collection ongoing	Yes
Update frequency	Semiannual
Available supplements	No

Specifications

Metadata:


MARC records available	Yes
Creator of MARC records	ProQuest
Source for obtaining MARC records	ProQuest
Fee for MARC records	No
Subject authorities used	Yes
Name authorities used	Yes

Technical Platform:


Browser compatibility	Effective in all modern browsers.
Authentication options
Available in web discovery tools	Yes
Open url target	Yes
Federated searching, z39.50	Yes
Local host option	No
Usage stats based on Counter code	Yes

Interface Tools:


Full text displayed	Yes
Page images	Yes
Color images	No
Search full text	No
Advanced search	Yes
Search within results	Yes
Limit results by dates and/or document types	Yes
Display highlighted search terms	Yes
Display snippet (search term in context)	Yes
Relevance sorting	Yes
Save searches	Yes
Download PDF	Yes
Download HTML	No
Print page	Yes
Print full document	Yes
Export citations	Yes
Annotation tools	No
Cross-product searching	Yes
ILL permitted	Yes
Text/data mining permitted	Contact PQ for consideration
Restrictions on use	No

Terms and Provider Details

Terms:


Subscription option	Yes	When subscribing to DNSA institutions must subscribe to all collections at once
Purchase option	Yes	When purchasing, institutions may purchase individual collections or all collections.
Multiple year payments option	Yes	Payment plans can be negotiated.
Maintenance fees	Yes	For purchasers we have a small annual maintenance and hosting fee.
Hosting charges	Yes	For purchasers we have a small annual maintenance and hosting fee.
Provider notes		The original publisher of the content is the National Security Archive. Through a publishing agreement ProQuest is the exclusive seller of their collections.

Provider:

ProQuest

Website:

http://www.proquest.com/

Main Address:

789 E. Eisenhower Parkway

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

United States

CRL Review

Collection Content:

Digital National Security Archive provides access to declassified U.S. government documents from 1945-2013. Many of the documents were declassified and released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests and other efforts of the National Security Archive, a non-profit Washington DC-based activist organization dedicated to government transparency. The collection contains policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other previously classified and/or sensitive government-produced material.

Many of the documents were originally published in microformat through a partnership with Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. and made available for purchase. ProQuest Information and Learning Company partnered with the National Security Archive to digitize the collection and continue to add to it. As of August 2016 the resource included 48 collections consisting of approximately 120,000 indexed documents focusing on national security topics, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. Intelligence after 9/11, and the Vietnam War.

A small subset of these documents is available in open access in the Electronic Briefing Books" on the website of the National Security Archive. The latter include published ebooks, briefs, and reports produced by the staff of the National Security Archive dealing with current and historical topics related to the collections in the ProQuest database and about other projects, such as the Guatemala National Police Archives, in which the NSA has been involved. Many of the reports and briefs link to selected PDFs of original documents that are also included in the DNSA database, but are available gratis in the brief/report.

To view titles and descriptions of the 48 collections available through the Digital National Security Archive, please visit the ProQuest LibGuide at: http://proquest.libguides.com/dnsa/collections.

Terms:

ProQuest offers these collections on either a subscription or purchase basis.

According to ProQuest, when subscribing to Digital National Security Archive institutions must subscribe to all collections at once. Through the one-time purchase option, institutions may purchase individual collections or all collections.

CRL's offer is only for one-time purchase(s).

Licensing

ProQuest is handling the licensing for this offer directly with CRL members. A Standard License Agreement is available. Please note that this is simply a sample agreement, and ProQuest has expressed its willingness to change the language as required by circumstances and parties entering into the agreement (i.e. state required language).

Contributors:

Information provided to CRL by Marisol Ramos, University of Connecticut, is incorporated in the review.

Sources

Sources for this review include information publicly posted or obtained directly from the publisher; data collected by CRL staff and specialists at CRL libraries; and examination of the digital collection when possible. Other sources are noted where cited. CRL continues to gather additional information on this resource and to solicit critical assessment.

Additional Reviews in Other Sources:

Kinney, D.J., "The Digital National Security Archive A Case Study." http://media2.proquest.com/documents/casestudy_dnsa_kinney.pdf

Marlatt, Greta E., "Digital National Security Archive." The Charleston Advisor. Volume 6, Number 3, January 2005, pp. 38-38(1). http://charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/.... Accessed August 16, 2016

CRL Offers & Status

Status	Current	Description
CRL Flagged	no	Potential interest to CRL community
Offer Pending	no	Currently a candidate for CRL offer
Active Offer	no	Currently offered for purchase or new subscription
Trial Access	no	Available for trial
Renewal Offer	no	Currently offered for renewal
Expired Offer	yes	Past offers
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration by CRL
Reviewed by CRL	yes	Evaluation available by CRL and community
Special Access	no	Member-only access available for a limited time

The complete offer and activity details for this resource are only available to CRL members.

Appendix

To view titles and descriptions of the 48 collections available through the Digital National Security Archive, please visit the ProQuest LibGuide at: http://proquest.libguides.com/dnsa/collections.

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