Your Librarian
Katherine "Kitty" Luce
She/her
Contact:
Office near the southwest corner of the Library, by the big windows
707-654-1769
OneSearch
- Find research materials (articles, books, e-books, reports, DVDs, and more) at Cal Maritime.
- Request delivery of items from other CSU libraries via CSU+.
News and Analysis
- EBSCO (all databases) This link opens in a new windowSearch all EBSCO databases provided by Cal Maritime.
Intro: Watch a short tutorial on searching in any EBSCO database.
This link opens in a new window - ABI/Inform This link opens in a new window
Contains articles on business, advertising, marketing, economics and finance.
- 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.
- 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
- gCaptainThis blog aggregates maritime news and provides commentary. Provide your email to get daily updates.
SEC Filings
Sec filings are a group source of information on public companies, because there are consequences if they don't tell the truth. A company's 10-K, or annual report, will usually discuss the company's condition and challenges it faces.
- EDGARFree access to more than 21 million company filings with the SEC (U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission)
- How to Read a 10-KAmong other things, the 10-K offers a detailed picture of a company’s business, the risks it faces, and the operating and financial results for the fiscal year.
- What is Form 10-Q?Form 10-Q includes unaudited financial statements and provides a continuing view of the company's financial position for each of the first three fiscal quarters of the company's fiscal year.
- What is Form 8-K?Form 8-K is the “current report” companies must file with the SEC to announce major events that shareholders should know about.
- Company Annual ReportsThe annual report to shareholders is a document used by most public companies to disclose corporate information to their shareholders.