  The Intelligence Studies Network is a comprehensive resource database for
publications, events, conferences, and calls for papers in the field of
intelligence studies. It offers a novel solution for monitoring, indexing, and
visualising resources. Sources are automatically monitored and added to a
manually curated database, ensuring the relevance of items to intelligence
studies. Curated outputs are stored in a group library on Zotero, an
open-source reference management tool. The metadata of items in Zotero is
enriched with OpenAlex, an open access bibliographic database. Finally, outputs
are listed and visualised on a Streamlit app, an open-source Python framework
for building apps. This paper aims to explain the Intelligence Studies Network
database and provide a detailed guide on data sources and the workflow. This
study demonstrates that it is possible to create a specialised academic
database by using open source tools.
