Fact Sheet Arctic & Antarctic Regions  

General Information
Available Formats: BiblioLine, CD-ROM Number of Records: 1,103,522
Dates of Coverage: 1800 & earlier - Present Number of CD-ROMS: 2
Database: Anthology of 12 files Update Frequency: Semi-annual
Subject Category: Earth Sciences, Regional Studies
   
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Comprehensive polar coverage
Arctic & Antarctic Regions (AAR) is the world's largest collection of international polar databases. Coverage is multidisciplinary. A wide variety of sources are indexed including: scientific periodicals, monographs, proceedings of conferences and symposia, government reports, theses, dissertations, and books. Many are indexed only in AAR -- the best resource for research on cold regions anywhere, from temperate regions with cold winters to the Himalayas of Tibet. AAR is the one-stop source for all polar specialists.
Database Content
    
CASP Bibliography of Arctic and Russian Geology
(1984-present) Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme, Cambridge, UK.  The CASP Bibliography of Arctic and Russian Geology includes records covering Arctic geology and an unrivalled collection of Russian geological works. Document sources for this file include journal articles, books, monographs, theses, conference proceedings, maps and many others. -- 54,170+ records
 
Arctic Bibliography

The American Geological Institute, with funding from the National Science Foundation, digitized the Arctic Bibliography.  The original bibliography was produced by the Arctic Institute of North America with funding from government agencies in the United States and Canada. The Arctic Bibliography covers the literature of the Arctic region through the early 1970s. The 114,575+ references with English abstracts have been digitized from the 16 published volumes and the unpublished 17th volume of the Arctic Bibliography. Subject coverage includes publications in the arts, sciences, and technology in more than twenty languages. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9729319.
 
ASTIS

Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - 53,290+ records
 
Cold Regions Bibliography

Formerly produced by the U.S. Library of Congress and now compiled by the American Geological Institute; CRREL -- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory and the Antarctic Bibliography -- U.S. National Science Foundation-funded -- 252,000+ records total
 
C-CORE

Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada -- 34,900+ records
 
Citation

World Data Center A for Glaciology [Snow & Ice], University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado -- 45,760+ records
 
SPRI

Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England -- 156,770+ records
 
USBGN Antarctic Place Names

U.S. Board on Geological Names' Official Place Names index: descriptions, elevations and coordinates for over 12,000 sites. -- 12,380+ records
 
BOREAL

Canadian Circumpolar Library, University of Alberta Library, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -- 66,950+ records
 
BOREAL Northern Titles

Canadian Circumpolar Library, University of Alberta Library, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -- 291,855 records
 
Yukon Bibliography

Canadian Circumpolar Library, University of Alberta Library, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -- 4,800+ records
 
INAC

Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Northern Development, Canada -- 79,400+ records

Composite Records
Special, software-created composite records resolve the problem of duplication among files. These “super records” provide all the information shared by two or more source records plus any data that is unique. You can view all the relevant information without having to scroll through any redundant citations.

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"the premier information source for north and south polar regions, with no online or printed equivalent. If you need access to polar literature, this is it... indispensable for any individual or institution with Arctic or Antarctic research interests."

- Peter Brueggeman (UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library), CD-ROM Librarian, Dec., 1990

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