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- Find research materials (articles, books, e-books, reports, DVDs, and more) at Cal Maritime.
- Request delivery of items from other CSU libraries via CSU+.
Recommended Article Databases
- 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).
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowContains more than 6 million documents and other materials from some of the world's most cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and related sciences
- 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.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Contains journal, magazine and newspaper articles on a broad range of topics.
Getting the Full Text!
Connect your Google Scholar account to Cal Maritime Library to automatically access articles that are part of the library's full-text subscription databases!
- Visit the Google 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.
- Request Books or ArticlesUse this form to request delivery of books or articles that the Cal Maritime Library doesn't have in full text.
Find Senior Projects
- Mechanical Engineering Capstone Reports available in the Cal Maritime Digital RepositoryElectronic copies of Cal Maritime Mechanical Engineering senior design projects are kept in the digital repository. Login with your Cal Maritime credentials to access all available reports.
- Mechanical Engineering Capstone Reports available in Cal Maritime LibraryThe library keeps copies of all Cal Maritime Mechanical Engineering senior design projects, located in Student Project Display.
How to Cite Student Projects
Author (Year). Title of project [Type of assignment]. Name of Institution.
Conolly, D., Neumaier, D., Olm, A., & Williams, Q. (2018). Wind turbine design project [Senior capstone project]. California State University, Maritime Academy. http://csum-dspace.calstate.edu/handle/10211.3/203207
Technical Reports
- NASA PubSpace This link opens in a new window
An 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 window
The 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 windowMaintains the world’s most comprehensive collection of U.S.-sponsored research. Houses more than 3 million publications, and data covers topics that range from aerodynamics to urban development. The archive spans the Manhattan project to present.
- 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 Publications
Cal Maritime subscribes to the following publications. You should NEVER have to pay for articles. The links below are not the same as going to the website or searching via Google. Use your Cal Maritime ID and password for off campus access to databases.
- New York TimesBrowse the World, Business or other sections for ideas of current topics. To register for full access, go to www.nytimes.com/passes & log in with your Cal Maritime email for an academic pass.
- The EconomistWe have full access to The Economist, you can browse by issue/date or search for specific articles or topics.
- The Washington PostYou can browse by date/issue or search by title or topic. This is as current as yesterday.
- NPRA non-profit media organization providing simple facts, analysis and in-depth reporting.
- C-SPAN Video Library This link opens in a new window
A publicly available collection of over 228,000 hours of programming. The Video Library records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Programs are extensively indexed.