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.

How do I get materials in MERLN libraries?

If you want to borrow materials which you identified in MERLN, contact the interlibrary loan section of your LOCAL library to obtain the materials for you. They will determine the nearest loaning library and initiate the loan. Local policies of some MERLN libraries do prohibit the loan of some materials.