Calhoun is the Naval Postgraduate School’s repository for research materials and institutional publications created by the NPS community. Materials in Calhoun are openly accessible and will be preserved for future generations.
NPS Archive: Calhoun collects, preserves and raises the visibility of NPS-created scholarly work at a stable, easily findable location. It makes NPS research visible, and enables collaboration with NPS authors. It also archives historical and present-day documents about the Naval Postgraduate School.
Calhoun is indexed by Google Scholar and its records are built to be shared with other institutional repositories, as well as with aggregators such as Hathi Trust, NDLTD, OpenAIRE, OpenArchives , BASE, CORE, COS / SHARE, GeoRef and others. To facilitate interoperability with other institutions and their repositories, its records are OAI-PMH compatible.
The name of the NPS Digital Archive honors Naval Postgraduate School Professor Guy K. Calhoun (1889-1920), professor of Mathematics, and the first appointed -- and published -- NPS scholarly author. This earliest known appointment for a Naval Postgraduate School professor occurred on May 6, 1910 when the 61st Congress approved Ensign Guy K. Calhoun as “professor of mathematics in the navy.” [1] Following his 1908 graduation from the Naval Academy, Prof. Calhoun made extensive computations to develop a set of mathematics tables that proved to be highly useful to navigators. His work, Products of Arcs and Sines of 15-Degree Rhumbs was published by the Government Printing Office in 1910. It remains in print to the present day. Prof. Calhoun’s Congressional appointment, discovered by NPS Mathematics Faculty member Carlos Borges, sheds new light on the process of faculty hiring at Annapolis. (At the time of his appointment, NPS was called the School of Marine Engineering and was co-located with the Naval Academy at Annapolis.)
1. U.S. House. Committee on Naval Affairs. Additional professor of mathematics in the Navy. (H. Rpt .830; Serial Set 5597). March 25, 1910. Text in: ProQuest Congressional Serial Set Digital Collection; Accessed: December 22, 2014.
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