I personally can't wait to clap eyes on the new interface for Ebsco's spook-friendly International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) database.

With over 2 million full-text articles in the collection, ISCTRC will appeal not just to researchers and analysts in the fields of national security and terrorism studies, but also those involved in ameliorating such business-critical issues as risk assessment, corporate security and disaster planning. This Flash advert might even appeal to budding secret agents.

So the articles that may be of interest in this, admittedly US-centric, database could well be about the San Francisco earthquake or this summer's hurricane season in the Caribbean, as much as information on the new US government agency to replace FEMA or the release of the 9/11 themed movie United 93.

I'm hoping Ebsco can arrange a VIP pass for me to get in there and snoop round so I can review it real soon now!