Peter McCracken's regularly featured column in Sea History provides useful information about using the internet for research, tapping into a community brought together by knowledge and interest in maritime topics.
American Civil War
Sea History 108: page 31
Archives
"Internet Archive: Finding Lost Things on the Web"
Sea History 120: page 20
Art and Art History
Sea History 114: page 31
Book Searches
Sea History 110: page 18
Digital Resources
"Mystic Seaport's digital resources"
Sea History 118: page 36
Directories
Sea History 112: page 19
Discussion Lists
Sea History 116: page 18
E-books
Sea History 117: page 20
Foreign Language Resources
"Searching the Web in Languages You Don't Speak"
Sea History 122: page 42
Images
"Locating Maritime Images"
Sea History 121: page 26
USS Monitor (ironclad)
Sea History 108: page 31
Music
Sea History 115: page 30
Navigation
Sea History 109: page 18
"Pathfinders"
(academic library)
Sea History 114: page 31
Photoblogs
Sea History 113: page 33
Podcasts
Sea History 113: page 33
Research
Sea History 106: page 35
Sea Chanties
Sea History 115: page 30
Search Engines
Sea History 112: page 19
"Web 2.0: The New Internet"
(sources offering user-generated content)
Sea History 119: page 30
Weblogs
Sea History 113: page 33
Whaling, 18th and 19th Centuries
Sea History 107: page 33
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Peter McCracken is the director of Electronic Content Management and co-founder of Serials Solutions Inc.(www.serialssolutions.com) out of Seattle, Washington. He holds a Master of Library Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Masters in Maritime History from East Carolina University. McCracken created and maintains the following website: www.shipindex.org
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