ABOUT MERLN

What is MERLN? 

MERLN (the Military Education Research Library Network) is a comprehensive website devoted to international military education outreach.  It represents a consortium of military education research libraries that work together to provide access to a variety of unique electronic resources for the use of researchers and scholars.

MERLN’s extensive electronic resources include the following:

• Military Policy Awareness Links (MiPALs), which provide access to current U.S. Government policy statements on selected key topics, accompanied by additional resources that analyze the topic;
• Digital collections of full-text papers, lectures, and legislation;
• Links to worldwide military library catalogs;
• Links to military journals and publications; and
• Access (password controlled) to full text ejournals and reference tools.

The MERLN website is maintained by the National Defense University Library in Washington, D.C.

Who can access MERLN?

MERLN is a website available on the Internet and is open to all. Due to licensing agreements, some databases are available only to students, staff, faculty and alumni of the participating institutions.