MSTEM - Transportation and Engineering Management
This guide offers quick access to resources for graduate students in Cal Maritime's MS in Transportation and Engineering Management program.
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Starting Points for Graduate Research
The OneSearch box on the library homepage is an excellent research tool, but it searches so much of our print and electronic library content that it may not give you the focused results you need! If the tips below don't meet your needs, consider reaching out to a librarian for personalized research assistance.
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EBSCO (all databases)The EBSCO databases cover a wide range of topics and include peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks, high quality magazines, and more. Because you may need information from multiple disciplines, searching all EBSCO's databases can be a good place to start.
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SAGE Journals OnlineContains articles from the Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology and Medicine.
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ScienceDirectContains journal articles and book chapters in the areas of Physical Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences.
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Springer LinkContains journals and books on a broad range of topics.
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ProQuest (all databases)Search all ProQuest databases provided by Cal Maritime
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CountryWatchComprehensive and regularly updated reports on every country.
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Ebook Central Academic CompleteProvides access to thousands of downloadable e-books in Life, Physical, and Social Sciences, Technology, Business and Economics, Education, and the Humanities.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)Contains scientific and scholarly journals.
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Academic Video OnlineDelivers more than 67,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
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ScienceFull access to the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary
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Safari Tech Books OnlineContains electronic books about technology, digital media and business.
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Find materials by citationIf you have the citation for an article or book and want to know if Cal Maritime has it, use this tool.
Open and Free Resources
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IMF eLibrary Digital CollectionThe International Monetary Fund has made its collection of digital publications available at no cost, as of January 1, 2020. Topics include global and regional economic outlooks, debt, law, infrastructure, and more. Some resources require creating a free account.
Focused Research for Transportation
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ABI/InformContains articles on business, advertising, marketing, economics and finance.
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WestlawLegal and law related material, including searches of United States and international codes. Also includes extensive current archives of news sources, a Company Investigator, and Hoover's Company Profiles.
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Mergent OnlineContains company and industry research, company data, annual reports and industry reports.
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Business Source PremierContains articles about business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economic, as well as company and industry reports, and country and market research profiles.
Focused Research for Engineering Management
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Engineering VillageCombines Compendex (comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research) and GEOBASE® (multidisciplinary database of literature on the earth sciences, geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation).
Focused Research for Humanitarian Disaster Management
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JSTORContains journal content, primary sources and images from humanities, social sciences and the sciences.
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Project MUSEContains articles from Humanities and Social Sciences journals.
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Environment CompleteMultidisciplinary scholarly, government and general interest titles focused on human impact of the environment. Provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for open access articles.
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ABI/InformContains articles on business, advertising, marketing, economics and finance.
Access Library Material through Google Scholar
Connect your Google Scholar account to Cal Maritime Library to automatically access articles that are part of the library's full-text subscription databases!
- Access the Google Scholar settings by visiting: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_settings
- Click Library links on the left hand menu.
- Search for California Maritime Academy in the search box.
- Select the checkbox and click Save.
If the Cal Maritime library doesn't have the full text of what you're looking for, use our request form!
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Request Books or ArticlesUse this form to request delivery of books or articles that the Cal Maritime Library doesn't have in full text.
Technical Reports
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NASA PubSpaceAn open-access repository to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research.
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Technical Report Archive and Image Library - TRAILThe Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.
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National Technical Reports Library - Open NTRLProduced by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service, this resource facilitates accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. 1964-current.
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Science.govScience.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
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OSTI.GOVOSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. OSTI.GOV contains nearly 3 million citations, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites. It also has more than 445,000 full-text DOE-funded STI documents.
News Subscriptions
Cal Maritime subscribes to the the following digital editions:
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ScienceFull access to the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary
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New York TimesFull access to NYTimes.com and NYTimes mobile apps, including breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features.To register, go to www.nytimes.com/passes & log in with your Cal Maritime email (@csum.edu). Renew once per year by logging in at www.nytimes.com/passes
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Journal of CommerceNews and in-depth analysis for shipping and logistics industries. Comprehensive market data, including trade lane volume, trade statistics, schedule reliability & pricing information.
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Chronicle of Higher EducationNews, blogs, commentary and reviews of academic books, electronic media and Internet resources related to Higher Education.