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Track Your Sources
- ZoteroGreat free tool for organizing sources and creating bibliographies. Zotero's home page includes links to download Zotero, documentation to help you explore its features, forums with useful questions and answers, and more!
Databases
- International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center This link opens in a new windowOpen Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students.
- Dissertations & Theses Full Text: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowContains more than 1 million dissertations and theses in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new windowContains current U.S. government and military information including full-text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for 400 journals.
- SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowContains articles from the Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology and Medicine.
- ABI/Inform This link opens in a new windowContains articles on business, advertising, marketing, economics and finance.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowContains journal, magazine and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowContains articles from Humanities and Social Sciences journals.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContains journal content, primary sources and images from humanities, social sciences and the sciences.
Books
Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific by Call Number: DS341 .M38 2014ISBN: 1442235322Publication Date: 2014This volume develops common approaches by focusing on geopolitical challenges, transnational security concerns, and multilateral institution-building and cooperation.
Power, Politics and Maritime Governance in the Indian Ocean by Call Number: DS341 .P69 2015ISBN: 1138828874Publication Date: 2014In this book, scholars from Asia, Europe and the US examine institutions and examples of maritime governance within the Indian Ocean including security arrangements, evolving forms of alliance building and counter-balancing, policy planning and forecasting.
The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies by Call Number: DS340 .I53 2014ISBN: 1849044260Publication Date: 2014In-depth case studies allow students and specialists to see how individual research projects may contribute to developing a view of the Indian Ocean as a transcultural arena, one in which individual societies were and are shaped by their interactions with others from across the waters.
The Indian Ocean by Call Number: DS340 .P43 2003; also available as E-bookISBN: 0415214890Publication Date: 2003The Indian Ocean moves from a discussion of physical elements, its shape, winds, currents and boundaries, to a history from pre-Islamic times to the modern period of European dominance.
Indian Ocean Strategies Through the Ages: With Rare and Antique Maps by Call Number: DS340 .B43 1990ISBN: 818504757XPublication Date: 1990Chinese engagement in Africa: drivers, reactions, and implications for U.S. policy by
Call Number: DS779.47 .H36 2014 & E-bookISBN: 0833084143Publication Date: 2014Examines Chinese engagement with African nations.
Journals
- Journal of the Indian Ocean RegionPublishes interdisciplinary social science and policy research on the nature and impact of the human uses of the Indian Ocean Region, and works to increase knowledge of a wide range of traditional and non-traditional security threats in order to maintain peace and stability.
- Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine ScienceThe journal publishes original research articles dealing with all aspects of marine science and coastal management in the Western Indian Ocean region.
Add Library Links to 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.
