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Multiple Internet Resources Available

March 9, 2010

Multiple Internet Resources Available

1.	Please Report Your IPY Publications
	IPY Publications Database

2.	Database Available Online
	Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS)

3.	Database Available Online
	Hydrocarbon Impacts (HI) Database

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1.	Please Report Your IPY Publications
	IPY Publications Database

The International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) currently
describes 2,900 publications, and provides links to PDF files of most of
them. If you are working on an IPY project, please report your project's
publications to the IPYPD at: http://www.nisc.com/ipy.

Reporting publications is easy. Just follow the "report your IPY
publications" link on the IPYPD website, and e-mail a list of references
to the appropriate address. The IPYPD covers most types of peer-reviewed
and gray-literature publications, on all types of media. In addition to
research publications, the database includes education, outreach, and
communication publications.

The IPY Data Policy and the IPY Scholarly Publications Policy require
that IPY publications be reported to the IPYPD. Reporting your
publications ensures that they are listed not only in the IPYPD, but
also, depending on their subject and geographic scope, in the
Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology, the Antarctic
Bibliography, the Scott Polar Research Institute databases, and the
Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) databases.

Please help to preserve the legacy of the IPY by reporting your
publications.

To report publications or to search the database, please go to:
http://www.nisc.com/ipy.

For further information, please contact:
Ross Goodwin
rgoodwin@ucalgary.ca

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2.	Database Available Online
	Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS)

Canada's northern database, the Arctic Science and Technology
Information System (ASTIS), now describes 69,000 publications and
research projects. The database is available at:
http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/astis.

ASTIS includes all subjects and covers the Yukon, the Northwest
Territories, Nunavut, the northern parts of seven provinces, and Canada's
arctic waters. The publications cited in the database include both
peer-reviewed and grey literature. The 15,300 research project
descriptions in ASTIS cover the period from 1974 to the present and are
based on information supplied by the organizations that license all
field research in the three northern territories.

There are now 15,500 ASTIS records that link to full-text PDF files of
publications. In order to focus resources on important aspects of
northern Canada, fourteen subsets of the main ASTIS database are
available as separate databases from their own websites.

For further information, or to search the database, please go to:
http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/astis.

Or contact:
Ross Goodwin
rgoodwin@ucalgary.ca

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3.	Database Available Online
	Hydrocarbon Impacts (HI) Database

The Hydrocarbon Impacts (HI) database describes 6,900 publications and
research projects about the environmental impacts, socio-economic
effects, and regulation of hydrocarbon exploration, development, and
transportation in northern Canada. The database is funded by Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada's Northern Oil and Gas Branch and is available
at: http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/hi.

New in HI during the past year are the electronic library of key
publications prepared for the proposed Beaufort Regional Environmental
Assessment (BREA), and coverage of publications resulting from the
multi-departmental federal government Northern Oil and Gas Science
Research Initiative (NOGSRI).

As the regulatory process for the Mackenzie Gas Project nears its end,
HI continues to describe, and provide links to, all major regulatory
documents about the project. More than 1,500 HI records now have links to
PDF files of online publications.

For further information, or to search the database, please go to:
http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/hi.

Or contact:
Ross Goodwin
rgoodwin@ucalgary.ca