The Defense Technical Information Center’s STINET database contains citations for and often the full text of defense-related research reports. The library owns some reports in print, and has nearly all of them available on microfiche. Coverage ranges from science and engineering to the behavioral and social sciences. STINET includes reports and theses from all of the U.S. military schools and reports from agencies such as GAO, DoD IG, CNA, RAND, LMI and many others.
| | Who Has Access | Years of Coverage | Classification/
Distribution | Documents Provided Full-Text? | How to Access |
| Public STINET | Anyone | Early 1900's to present | Unclassified
Unlimited | Yes | http://stinet.dtic.mil
(or from Library's Databases page) |
Private STINET
(password required) | U.S. students, faculty and staff | Early 1900's to present | Unclassified
Unlimited
Limited | Yes | You will be sent the URL with your password. |
Classified STINET
(password required) | U.S. students, faculty and staff with security clearance | Early 1900's to present | Unclassified
Unlimited
Limited
Confidential
Secret | Yes | You will be sent the URL with your password. |
| DVD | U.S. students, faculty and staff with security clearance | Early 1900's to present | Unclassified
Unlimited
Limited
Confidential
Secret | No full-text documents | Restricted Resources and Services at Dudley Knox Library |
We encourage all NPS students and faculty who are U.S. citizensto sign up for Private STINETbecause it provides access to:
- limited distributionmaterials unavailable through Public STINET.
- the inside web and CISTI Source databases. These databases index thousands of international journals and conference proceedings, covering the fields of health and social sciences, business and economics, arts and humanities, manufacturing and engineering, agriculture, law, and pure sciences.
- ProQuest Research Library Complete. Provides convenient search and retrieval to a collection of articles from over 2,575 periodicals including 84 military titles. 1,697 of the titles are available in full text, full image format.
- DTIC's active Research Summaries (RS) Collection of approximately 290,000 active and inactive summaries from 1965 to present.
You must register to use Private STINET or Classified STINET. You may register at the following site: https://register.dtic.mil/DTIC
In order to be able to connect to and use Private STINET you must have a web browser that supports strong encryption.Strong encryption enables you to make secure transactions and provides a level of privacy and security not available in browsers with standard encryption. Typically you must register with the web browser provider if you download a browser with strong encryption. Browsers with strong encryption are available to U.S. and Canadian citizens or permanent residents only. In order to be able to register for and use Classified STINET you must have a SIPRNET account.
