What Publications and Media Does INA Offer?

The Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) publishes and maintains several types of material you can read, watch, or listen to: the INA Quarterly (with a back-issue archive), INA Books, the INA Archives, recorded INA Webinars, and videos. These are the main channels for following INA's shipwreck excavation and research work, and most are reachable from the navigation menu on nauticalarch.org under "Media."

INA Quarterly

The INA Quarterly is INA's periodical publication. It carries project reporting and institutional news, and it has been in circulation long enough that INA marks milestones through it — for example, a special commemorative 50th volume was produced for INA's 50th year in 2023.

Two distinct resources exist for it:

• INA Quarterly — the current publication.
• INA Quarterly Archive — back issues, useful if you want to trace how a specific excavation was reported over time or read older project accounts.

If your goal is to understand a particular wreck or season of fieldwork, the archive is usually the better starting point, since current issues tend to cover recent and ongoing work.

INA Books

INA Books is the book-publishing side of the organization. Where the Quarterly gives short-form reporting, books allow for full excavation reports and longer treatments of a site. Use this section if you need depth on a single project rather than an overview of many.

INA Archives

The INA Archives holds institutional and research records. This is the section to check when you are looking for historical documentation rather than narrative publications — for instance, material connected to INA's early fieldwork. INA's first shipwreck survey took place in 1973, and the organization has pointed to archival and film material from that period when telling its own history.

Videos and INA Webinars

INA distributes recorded talks and film content:

• INA Webinars — the "INA Wednesday Webinar" series is INA's recurring online talk format. Recordings are a way to hear researchers discuss projects directly.
• Videos — INA maintains a video section, including documentary-style material. A film about INA's first shipwreck survey in 1973 was produced as part of the 50th-anniversary commemoration.

Webinars suit someone who wants current research presented in the researchers' own words; the video and film material is more useful for orientation and history.

Choosing Among Them

Practical Notes

These resources sit alongside INA's other public-facing sections — Projects, News & Events, and the funding pages — so a project page and its corresponding Quarterly article or webinar often cover the same excavation from different angles. INA also runs an online store and a membership program; the site presents membership as a way to support the organization's work, but the publication and media sections themselves are listed as separate menu items, so check each section directly for what is openly available versus what is tied to membership or purchase.