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Arctic and Antarctic Regions

Database containing over 1.3 million references to journal articles and other research documents dealing with the Earth’s polar regions, some of them dating back to the 1800s. The main scientific database on the North and the Arctic produced by a private company (EBSCO). Features a controlled vocabulary in polar studies (available via the index) and offers content in natural sciences, engineering and technology, health, and humanities and social sciences.

Subjects: Earth sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences, Exploration, Indigenous peoples, Oceanography

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Arctic Health Publications Database

Articles, reports, conference proceedings, and grey literature on the health of peoples of the North. Some publications are freely available.

Subjects: Environmental health, Food security, Indigenous peoples, Traditional medicine, Mental health

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ArcticNet Publications Database (ASTIS)

Cites over 3,800 publications from the ArcticNet network that cover natural sciences, health sciences, and social sciences.

Subjects: ArcticNet, Climate change, Hydrology, Oceanography

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ASTIS

An Arctic Institute of North America resource featuring 16 databases containing publication and research project references about northern Canada.

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Autochtonia

Articles, books, briefs, theses, and research reports on the Indigenous peoples of Quebec (in French only). Some publications are freely available.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Northern Quebec

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Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database (ASTIS)

Records of publications on human health, including public health, medicine, and human biology in the circumpolar region. Subset of the ASTIS database.

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Health, Indigenous peoples, Medicine, Public health

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First Nations Food, Nutrition, and Environment Study

A Canadian scope study on the benefits and risks of food and water in First Nations communities.

Subjects: Environmental health, Food security, Indigenous peoples, Water, Nutrition

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Google Scholar

A bibliographic search engine that indexes a considerable proportion of scientific publications made available in digital format by academic publishers, scholarly societies, and universities, including journal articles, reports, theses, e-books, and others. Full text (not just metadata) can be searched. Provides links to free-access content.

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High North Research Documents

Freely available articles, theses, reports, books, maps, videos, and other documents dealing with the North and the Far North.

Subjects: Caribou, Climate change, Ice, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Oceanography, Permafrost, Sami, Tundra

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Kluane Lake Research Station Bibliography (ASTIS)

References 1,100 publications of geoscience, biology, and high altitude physiology research conducted at the Kluane Lake Research Station in southwestern Yukon.

Subjects: Biology, Earth sciences, Kluane Lake, Physiology, Yukon

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Knowledge Resources & Publications (National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health)

Reports, articles, chapters, bulletins, and other documents dealing with the health and well-being of Canada’s First Nations. Freely available resource.

Subjects: Family health, Health policy, Indigenous peoples, Social determinants of health, Mental health

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Native American Ethnobotany Database: Find Drug, Dyes, Fibre, Food by Indigenous group (University of Michigan)

A database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples from North America, Derived from Plants.

Subjects: Ethnobotany, Indigenous peoples, Traditional Diet, Traditional medicine

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NCP Publications (ASTIS)

Descriptions of over 3,700 publications (books, reports, book chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings and abstracts, and theses) resulting from the Northern Contaminants Program.

Subjects: Contaminants, Environmental sciences, Food, Northern Canada

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Northern Granular Resources Bibliographic Database (ASTIS)

References for 2,200 reports on coastal and offshore granular resources (gravel, sand, and crushed stone) in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

Subjects: Crushed rock, Environmental sciences, Gravel, Sand

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Nunavik Bibliography (ASTIS)

Contains 8,000 records of publications dealing with various facets of northern Quebec, including geoscience, life sciences, humanities, and social science.

Subjects: Earth sciences, Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples, Northern Quebec, Nunavik, Social sciences

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Nunavut Database (ASTIS)

Descriptions of nearly 35,000 grey literature publications (reports by government agencies, Inuit organizations, universities, and industry), journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and books on Nunavut, the Canadian Arctic, and the circumpolar Arctic.

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Environmental sciences, Inuit, Nunavut, Social sciences

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PubMed

Articles dealing with life sciences and certain aspects of biology (marine, animal, and plant), environmental science, biophysics, and chemistry. Also links to molecular biology resources from NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information), etc. Nearly 25 million references in every language. Allows users to search free-access content.

Subjects: Health, Indigenous peoples, Medicine, Nutrition

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Sahtu Settlement Area Database (ASTIS)

Some 2,100 records describing grey literature (reports by government agencies, Indigenous organizations, universities, and industry), journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and books resulting from research projects in the Sahtu region in the Northwest Territories’ central MacKenzie Valley.

Subjects: Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples, Sahtu, Social sciences, Northwest Territories

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Scopus

Database containing citations for over 69 million articles, chapters, and conference proceedings, primarily in natural sciences, but also in the humanities and social sciences. Features significant coverage of northern and Arctic studies. Contains over 12,000 author profiles and significant coverage of publications in languages other than English.

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SPRILIB Russian North

Publications concernant le nord de la Russie et la Sibérie. Environ 25 000 notices, listant les travaux publiés de 1671 à 2003. Attention! La base ne peut PAS être cherchée en cyrillique.

Subjects: Ice, Russia, Siberia

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