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In the race to provide quality online content, Google and HarperCollins
have been left at the gate

Praeger Security International (PSI), has outperformed the competition—combining the best of print with the access and organization of a sophisticated online database.

PSI, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, has set the Internet industry model for combining the best of print with the access and organization of a sophisticated database—expertly indexed and cross-searchable, starting with over 500 books, original analysis on important and regional events written by today's leading scholars and experts, over 1,000 primary documents, a world-wide chronology of terrorism and political violence events, and a carefully prepared annotated bibliography.

Rather than adopting Google's digitize-everything-it-can model, or Random House's strategy of publishing strictly its own products, PSI will launch Praeger Security International Online (PSIO), an innovative and flexible delivery format, with free trials beginning in March 2006.

PSIO will serve the needs of students, researchers, journalists, and other professionals who need quick and efficient access to quality information on the world's most important issues and events.

This constantly evolving Web site will present international and interdisciplinary voices representing a diverse range of political perspectives on international security issues, including:

• Defense and National Security Intelligence
• Terrorism and Nontraditional Threats
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Humanitarian and Peace Operations
• Military History and Regional Security
• Armed Forces
• Military Affairs
• Strategic Studies
• Proliferation

To help maintain this focus, PSIO established a special Advisory Board to oversee its work:

Loch K. Johnson
Co-Chair: University of Georgia

Paul Wilkinson
Co-Chair: University of St. Andrews

Eliot A. Cohen
Johns Hopkins University

Anthony Cordesman
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Therese Delpech
International Institute for Strategic Studies

Sir Michael Howard
International Institute for Strategic Studies

Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy
U.S. Army (Ret.)

Paul M. Kennedy
Yale University

Robert O'Neill
International Institute for Strategic Studies

Shibley Telhami

Brookings Institution

Jusuf Wanandi
Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta

Fareed Zakaria
Newsweek International

PSIO's program—maintained, organized, and indexed by subject-specialist librarians—eclipses the competition's programs via additional value-added features such as:

Monthly Commentaries

Written by scholars and experts, these articles will provide a focused treatment of newsworthy events and important historical occurrences. These commissioned pieces will be permanently archived and cross-searchable. Early commentaries include pieces from Alan Gropman (Integrating the Armed Forces), John Haseman (Reforming the Indonesian Armed Forces), and Loch K. Johnson (Intelligence and Privacy).

Regional Analysis

Similar to commentaries but with comprehensive coverage, these articles focus on major events as they relate to specific countries within regional contexts or regions within a global context. Commissioned analysis for 2006 include pieces from Ewan Anderson (Kashmir), Sean M. Maloney (Afghanistan), Joseph Siracusa (Australia and East Asia), and Robert J. O'Neill (East Asia).

Primary Documents

An archive of carefully selected primary documents support titles in the database and provides authoritative and timely material on all facets of international security with special emphasis on terrorism and irregular warfare, strategic studies, defense and foreign policy, regional security, and military history. Specialty librarians and PSI authors continually provide feedback on materials most relevant to PSIO users.

Chronologies: Starting with Terrorism and Political Violence (National and Inernational)

Professionally assembled, comprehensive and up-to-date, this chronology lists and organizes terrorist incidents from around the world from 1968 to the present, with background information that stretches back more than 75 years. National incidents include everything from bombings at abortion clinics to acts by eco-terrorist groups.

Annotated Bibliography

An authoritative and scholarly bibliography assembled by one of the top scholars in the field (James Forest; USMA, West Point) provides readers with invaluable guidance on the most important articles and books on terrorism and related topics.

Indexin g and Search Option

The PSI Web site features an innovative index created by subject-specialist librarians. Using Library of Congress subject headings as a framework for standardization, but augmented with numerous additional headings and subheadings, the index was assembled to facilitate access to the vast amount of content available on the site.

The ever-growing index is currently comprised of over twenty thousand lines, including seven thousand primary subject headings and thirteen thousand subheadings that provide multiple access points to the main database content. Subject matter experts directly applied the indexing terms to the content as metadata to provide researchers with significantly increased relevancy.

The database will also allow for Boolean operators and has a free form search box. It will be possible to limit searches by data type and chronological period. Search results will be displayed by relevancy but with a variety of sorting options.

PSIO is designed to make the most current, in-depth information available with the click of a button.