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Welcome to the Library
Welcome to the MSTEM guide! The short video below gives you a short tour of what the library can do for you. If you have any questions, would like a research appointment, or anything else, please contact your liaison librarian!
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.
- OneSearchSearch Cal Maritime's print and digital collections in one place.
- EBSCO (all databases) This link opens in a new windowThe 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.
- SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowContains articles from the Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology and Medicine.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowContains journal articles and book chapters in the areas of Physical Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences.
- Springer Link This link opens in a new windowContains journals and books on a broad range of topics.
- ProQuest (all databases) This link opens in a new windowSearch all ProQuest databases provided by Cal Maritime
- CountryWatch This link opens in a new windowComprehensive and regularly updated reports on every country.
- Ebook Central Academic Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides access to thousands of downloadable e-books in Life, Physical, and Social Sciences, Technology, Business and Economics, Education, and the Humanities.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new windowContains scientific and scholarly journals.
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowDelivers more than 67,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
- Science This link opens in a new windowFull access to the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary
- O’Reilly Online Learning E-books This link opens in a new windowContains electronic books about technology, digital media and business.
- 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
- 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
- ABI/Inform This link opens in a new windowContains articles on business, advertising, marketing, economics and finance.
- Westlaw This link opens in a new windowLegal and law related material, including searches of United States and international codes. Also includes extensive current archives of news sources, a Company Investigator.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowContains company and industry research, company data, annual reports and industry reports.
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new windowContains articles about business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economic, as well as company and industry reports, and country and market research profiles.
Watch a short EBSCO tutorial on searching Business Source Premier.
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Focused Research for Engineering Management
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowCombines 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
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContains journal content, primary sources and images from humanities, social sciences and the sciences.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowContains articles from Humanities and Social Sciences journals.
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary scholarly, government and general interest titles focused on human impact of the environment. Provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for open access articles.
- ABI/Inform This link opens in a new windowContains 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!
- 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
- NASA PubSpace This link opens in a new windowAn open-access repository to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research.
- Technical Report Archive and Image Library - TRAIL This link opens in a new windowThe Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.
- National Technical Reports Library - Open NTRL This link opens in a new windowProduced 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- Science This link opens in a new windowFull access to the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary
- New York Times This link opens in a new windowFull 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
- Journal of Commerce This link opens in a new windowNews and in-depth analysis for shipping and logistics industries. Comprehensive market data, including trade lane volume, trade statistics, schedule reliability & pricing information.
- Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new windowNews, blogs, commentary and reviews of academic books, electronic media and Internet resources related to Higher Education.