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Arctic Portal Library

Collection of a thousand documents (books, articles, images, legal documents, etc.) published by the Arctic Council or the University of the Arctic, or as part of International Polar Year 2007-2008. A significant part of the collection is freely accessible.

Subjects: Culture, Education, Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples, Law, Natural Resources

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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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Cold Regions Bibliography Project

References to studies on human activity and scientific operations in cold environments.

Subjects: Earth sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences, Physical sciences

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EASI : earth and space index search

Database featuring publications (journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and videos) by the American Geophysical Union, from 1900 to today. Content relevant to northern and Arctic studies with regard to geoscience, marine science, and atmospheric science.

Subjects: Atmospheric sciences, Earth sciences, Oceanography

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GEOBASE

Database featuring over 3 million references to journal articles and geoscience conference proceedings, including those in the fields of geography, earth sciences, ecology, geology, oceanography, and nature conservation. Boasts a rich controlled vocabulary accessible via a thesaurus that allows users to search by geographic region of the North and the Arctic. Also includes significant content on Indigenous studies.

Subjects: Conservation, Earth sciences, Ecology, Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples

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GeoRef

Database produced by the American Geosciences Institute, with over 3.6 million references to journal articles and conference proceedings on geoscience, including geology, stratigraphy, petrology, and hydrology. GeoRef boasts a controlled vocabulary accessible via a thesaurus that allows users to search by geographic region of the North and the Arctic.

Subjects: Earth sciences, Environmental sciences, Geology, Hydrology, Petrology

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GEOSCAN

Database of the scientific publications of Natural Resources Canada containing 85,000 references related to the fields of geoscience (including publications by the Geological Survey of Canada), mining, materials, and energy. Some publications are freely available.

Subjects: Earth sciences, Energy, Engineering, Geology, Mining

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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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Nordicana D

Database of the Centre d’études nordiques gathering raw data from published studies as well as unpublished research data.

Subjects: Centre d’études nordiques, Climate change, Environmental sciences, Research data, Northern Canada

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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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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 Ice and Snow

Tous les aspects de la neige et de la glace dans le monde entier. Environ 40 000 notices, listant les travaux publiés de 1661 à 2003.

Subjects: Earth sciences, Environmental sciences, Ice, Snow

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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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Web of Science

Database containing over 55 million article and conference proceedings citations, primarily in the sciences, but also in the humanities and social sciences. Features significant coverage of northern and Arctic studies. The database can be searched by citation to find articles cited by other publications.

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