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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