LibGuides: Cybersecurity: Open Educational Resources

Government Sites

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Since 1908 the FBI has worked to protect and defend the United States from foreign threats. The FBI also provides leadership and services to criminal justice agencies here and abroad.
Cybersecurity - U.S. Department of Defense
The official website of the U.S. Department of Defense has a page devoted to cybersecurity. It provides information on issues, fact sheets, links to other government agencies, and sources for related information.
International Telecommunication Union (U.N)
The International Telecommunications Union is the United Nation's specialized agency for information and communication technologies. It has a specific gateway for cybersecurity issues.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The mission of the Department of Homeland Security is to protect the United States from threats. Cybersecurity is a special focus of the DHS, especially the federal government's cyber networks.
MI5 (British Security Service)
MI5 protects the United Kingdom from threats, including cyber espionage.
European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
The European Union (EU) established ENISA to handle information security issues, especially cyber security.
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE)
This is an international group initiated in 2008 to enhance cooperation among NATO nations to approach cyber defense.
National Security Council
Chaired by the President, this Council considers issues relating to national security and foreign policy.
NIST Computer Security Division
NIST is part of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and functions as a physical science laboratory. The Computer Security Division of NIST is charged with protecting information systems.
National Security Agency
The NSA is "home to America's codemakers and codebreakers."
National Cybersecurity Protection Act of 2014.
The full text version of the public law "National Cybersecurity Protection Act" (PL 113-282).
Liberty and Security in a Changing World
NASA's 2013 report on national security is available full text.

Useful Informational Sites

National Cybersecurity Alliance - StaySafeOnline
Commercial and government leaders established the National Cybersecurity Alliance to educate society to use the Internet safely.
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Actually part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, this site provides helpful tips about computer security for the general public.
Center for Internet Security
A nonprofit organization that develops cybersecurity products and services.
CERIAS
Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security is a center for research on information security.
NATO and Cybersecurity

Research Sites

EastWest Institute
An international group that collaborates to seek answers to global issues. They launched a Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative in 2009.
MS-ISAC Information Sharing and Analysis Center
This multi state group brings together state and national government officials in order to coordinate "cyber threat prevention, protection, response and recovery for the nation's state, local, territorial, and tribal governments."
CSIS (Center for Strategic & International Studies)
This national, bipartisan organization conduct research and analysis on policies including defense and security. Cyber security is investigated by this group within the broader domain of technology issues.

Open Access Vendors

SpringerOpen
SpringerOpen provides access to full text journals in disciplines including science, technology, and medicine.
GeoRef Open Access Journals
GeoRef provides searching and full access to journals and series in geology, geography, and related disciplines that are openly available on the web.
Bioline International
Beginning in 1993, Bioline International began providing full text access to peer reviewed journals that contain research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food, nutritional security, and biodiversity.

Open Access Databases

DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals provides full text coverage of scientific, scholarly journals.
GAlLEO Knowledge Repository
Digital collections from the University of Georgia.
PLoS (Public Library of Science)
A database of open access, peer reviewed journals in the sciences.
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition provides access to papers, articles, blogs, newsletters, and news for research scientists.
arXiv
Sponsored by Cornell, this site provides eprints of quantitative research papers in many of the science disciplines.
E-Print Network
Scientists have created this network of information gleaned from websites and databases to create a database of e-prints.
Journal TOCs
A searchable resource providing tables of contents for over 17,000 scholarly journals (almost 3000 of which are open access)
Genamics
A free database of almost 10,000 journals. The articles themselves are not available on the database, so it is an identification resource.

Scientific Open Access Communities

DAVID
DAVID, A Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery is a bioinformation database that provides gene specific data and promotes data sharing among scientists.
Faculty of 1000
A searchable database of current publications by research faculty. Although the full texts of these publications are available through a subscription, the database may be searched free of charge.
Hum-Molgen
An international communication forum for human molecular genetics featuring journal literature and other publications.
OpenDOAR
A resource identifying open resource sites.
Research Gate
"ResearchGate allows you to network with the largest global community dedicated to science and research: we help you to expand your contacts, share knowledge and find potential research partners."
INASP (International Network )
INASP’s Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) aims to support research capacity in developing and emerging countries. INASP's PERii:Open Access provides access to resources freely available.

Open Courseware

Many universities have followed MIT's lead and model for open courseware (OCW). OCW Course materials are freely accessible but no certificates or degrees are granted by the institution. The intent is to share knowledge and resources with all who interested in learning.

More information about Open Courseware is available at the Open Courseware Consortium site.

MIT Open Courseware (OCW)
MIT provides content and resources for over 2000 of its courses.
Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Materials provided from Duke's Intellectual Property Rights Program.
JHSPH Open Courseware
Johns Hopkins University offers open access to the course content in its Bloomberg School of Public Health

Cybersecurity

OneSearch (Includes articles, books, DVDs, music, etc.) (PrimoVE)

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