Access Military, Government & Defense offers extensive coverage of the Armed Forces and U.S. federal government, as well as military and defense news, issues, strategies, careers and lifestyles, pay and benefits, training, law, equipment, technology and much more. A collection that complements and can be searched with America’s Newspapers, it features full-text content from more than 20 key sources, many of which are exclusive to this collection.

The U.S. Armed Services, the third largest armed forces in the world, is comprised of approximately 2.25 million personnel—approximately 1.5 million active duty personnel and more than 850,000 reserves. Access Military, Government & Defense supports not only active duty and reserve personnel, but also their dependents, retired military personnel and high school or college ROTC programs. Significantly, this collection represents a rare opportunity for libraries to provide the general public with access to this unique content.

Essential information sources
Access Military, Government & Defense offers current and archived news and information from the Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, Navy Times, Armed Forces Journal and Defense News. It also incorporates the Congressional Quarterly Transcriptions and Federal Times, a leading newsweekly providing federal government managers with coverage of key issues across all U.S. government departments and agencies. Other important sources offered by Access Military, Government & Defense include C4ISR: The Journal of Net-Centric Warfare, Decision Times, Military Times Association Guide, Special Sections, Targeted News Service and Training and Simulation Journal

Partnerships with leading military publishers
NewsBank has supplied military and government libraries with a wide variety of news and information for more than 35 years. Now, NewsBank enables the general public to research military, government and defense in great detail through partnerships with leading military and government publishers such as the Army Times Publishing Company, part of the Gannett Company, Inc., along with its various units—the Military Times Media Group, the Defense News Media Group and the Federal Times.