Databases index journal articles, books, conference proceedings, reports, and other materials. These databases may be searched individually:

America History and Life. 1964+  (ABC-CLIO)
An online index to over 2,000 journals published worldwide that deal with the history of the United States and Canada. Entries include extensive abstracts. Book and media reviews from over one hundred journals are included.

Anthropology Plus. 1900+ (Eureka)
This database is a combination of Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute. It provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of anthropology and archaeology.

Biological Abstracts . 1969-  (Ebsco)
Biological Abstracts is produced by BIOSIS, and is a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database provides users with access to the latest information in virtually every life science discipline. Biological Abstracts contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year.

BioOne. 
A database of 155 bioscience research journals. Some full text articles are available.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management. 1967+  (Cambridge)
This database provides indexing to the principle multidisciplinary journals from the environmental sciences. An excellent source for references to the underwater environment, shipwrecks, and govenment policy.

Expanded Academic Index. 1980+  (Gale)
A general interest index to nearly 1,000 multi-disciplinary journals. A surprisingly good source for recent articles on topics related to maritime studies. Some full-text articles are available through this database.

Historical Abstracts. 1450+  (ABC-CLIO)
An online index to scholarly journals, books, and dissertations on world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada). The U.S. and Canada are covered in the America History and Life database.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis)
A comprehensive database that contains full-text coverage of Federal and state laws, cases, and regulations. It also provides access to full-text legal periodicals and newspapers.

Oceanic Abstracts. 1981+  (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
This database provides access to the worldwide technical literature on the marine and brackish-water environment. Coverage of living and non-living resources, including shipwrecks, is comprehensive.

OmniFile Full Text Mega. 1994+  (Wilson)
A multidisciplinary database consisting of full-text articles from over 1,600 popular and scholarly journals. An excellent source for initiating a search on contemporary as well as historical topics.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. 1975+  (Cambridge)
This valuable database provides citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles of the international periodical literature in political science and related fields, including international relations, law, public administration, and public policy.

Searching for Articles Across Databases may be accomplished by using categorized groups in Metalib:

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Print and online journal titles are listed in the library catalog and in the SFX Citation Linker. Print journals are located on the second floor of the library and are shelved by call number.

Use Interlibrary Loan Services to order articles that UWF does not own.

Most books on Maritime Studies are found in the book stacks under CC (archaeology) and GC (marine science) on the fourth floor. Electronic books are included in the library catalog or may be searched within the Netlibrary or Ebrary collections. Specific titles may be located using Instant Search in the library catalog:

Bibliographies

An Introductory Bibliography of Maritime References for the New World and the Spanish Empire Therein, 1491-1821. 1986. (Ref. Z 6201 B226)

Catalog of Marine Prints and Paintings. 3 vols. 1964. (Special Collections NE 957 M35)

Coastal and Maritime Archaeology: A Bibliography. 1991. (CC 77 U5 K45 1991)

An Indexed Bibliography of Underwater Archaeology and Related Topics. 1996. (CC 77 U5 I43 1996)

World War II at Sea: A Bibliography of Sources in English. 3 vols. 1976. (Ref. Z 6207 W8 S57)

Yucatan: An Annotated Bibliography of Documents and Manuscripts on the Archaeology and History of Yucatan in Archives and Libraries of Mexico, North America and Europe. 1943. Reprinted 1980. (Ref. Z 1427 Y8 1980)


Dictionaries

The Facts on File Dictionary of Marine Science. 2001. (Ref. GC 9 F28 2001)
See also Ocean and Marine Dictionary (Ref. GC 9 T86).

Facts on File Dictionary of Nautical Terms. 1994. (Ref. V 23 L467 1994)
See also A Dictionary of Sea Terms (Ref. V 23 A6 1985), International Maritime Dictionary (Ref. V 23 K4 1961), Mariner's Dictionary (Ref. V 23 B75 1972), Naval Terms Dictionary (Ref. V 23 N6 1978), and The Overlook Illustrated Dictionary of Nautical Terms (Ref. V 23 B58).

Falconer's Marine Dictionary. 1780. Reprint 1970. (Ref. V 23 F18 1970)
See also Glossary of Physical Oceanography and Related Disciplines http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/paleo /ocean/ocean.html.


Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences. 1998. (Ref. GC 9 E56 1998)
See also Encyclopedia of Nautical Knowledge (Ref. V 23 M25).

Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology. 1998. (Ref. CC 77 U5 E53 1998)


Handbooks

Practical Handbook of Marine Science. 2001. (Ref. GC 11.2 P73 2001)
See also CRC Handbook of Marine Science, 3 vol. (Ref. GC 24 C17).

Shipwrecks of Florida. 1998. (Ref. G 525 S556 1998)


Directories

International Register of Historic Ships. 1993. (Ref. VM 15 B77 1993)


Atlases

An Atlas of Maritime Florida. 1997. (Ref. Atlas G 1316 P5 A8 1997) & FWB

Atlas of Maritime History. 1975. (Ref. Atlas G 1060 L65 1975)

The Atlas of Shipwrecks and Treasure. 1994. (Ref.Atlas G 1046 P57 P5 1994)

The Times Atlas and Encyclopaedia of the Sea. 1990. (Ref. Atlas G 2800 T5 1990)) & FWB See also Atlas of the Sea (Ref. Atlas GC 21 B35), Atlas of the South Pacific (Ref. Oversize Atlas G 2860 N49), Atlas of the Oceans (Ref. Oversize Atlas G 2801 C7 A813), Indian Ocean Atlas (Ref. Atlas G 2850 U5 1976), The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (Ref. V 23 O96), Rand McNally Atlas of the Oceans (Ref. Atlas G 2800 R3 1977), and UN Atlas of the Oceans  http://www.oceansatlas.org/index.jsp.


Travels

A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel. 3 vols. 1935-1949. (Ref. Z 6011 C87)

Travels in the Old South. 1956. (Ref. Z 1251 S7 C4)

An Analysis of Spanish Colonization Fleets in the Age of Exploration Based on the Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, Florida. 1998. (Ref. LD 1807 F62k 1998 S35)

Archaeological Site Transformation Processes and the Spanish Presidio Santa Maria de Galve (1698-1998). 2000. (Ref. LD 1807 F62k 2000 W56)

A Broken Lifeline of Commerce, Trade and Defense on the Colonial Frontier: Historical Archaeology of the Santa Rosa Island Wreck, An Early Eighteenth-Century Spanish Shipwreck in Pensacola Bay, Florida. 2001. (Ref. LD 1807 F62k 2001 H84)

Hamilton's Wreck: An Archaeological and Historical Inquiry into the Regional Maritime Culture of Pensacola, Florida, 1900-1920. 2002. (Ref. LD 1807 F62k 2002 M66)

Historical Rationale and Museum Survey in Support of a Maritime Museum for Pensacola, Florida. 2001. (Ref. LD 1807 F62k 2001 F64)

The Life and Times of a Merchant Sailor: History and Archaeology of the Norwegian Ship Catherine. 2000. (Ref. LD 1807 F62k 2000 B84)

The Santa Maria Village: Archaeology and History at First Pensacola, 1698-1719. 2001. (Ref. LD 1807 F62k 2001 P65)

A Study of Iron Fasteners From The Emanuel Point Ship. 2001. (Ref. LD 1807 F62k 2001 P84)