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Polar Studies: Finding articles & journals

A guide to the library's resources to support learning and research for the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
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  • Maps & Images
  • Other library resources
  • IGERT (NSF Grant)
  • Polar Exploration
  • Data for Polar regions
  • Internet resources
  • IPY (International Polar Year)
  • Stefansson Collection
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  • Issue cover artArctic, antarctic and alpine research by Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research seeks to advance understanding of the rapid environmental change occurring in cold regions through research into past, present, and future high-latitude and mountain regions. The journal publishes research from a diverse group of international authors from academia, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. ...
  • Issue cover artArctic anthropology by University of Wisconsin Press
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Arctic Anthropology is an international journal devoted to the study of Old and New World northern cultures and peoples.
  • Issue cover artEcography by Nordic Society Oikos
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    ISBN: 1600-0587
    Ecology publishes papers focused on broad spatial and temporal patterns, particularly studies of population and community ecology, macroecology, biogeography, and ecological conservation.
  • Issue cover artGeografiska annaler. Series A, Physical geography by Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Looks at physical geography and glaciology with an emphasis on the polar regions.
  • Northern notes: occasional publication of the John Sloan Dickey Endowment for International Understanding by Dickey Center
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    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 600 .N66
    Northern notes continues Polar notes which was an occasional publication of the Stefansson Collection.
  • Issue cover artPolar biology by Springer-Verlag
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Polar Biology is a focal point for biologists working in polar regions. It is also of interest to scientists working in biology, ecology and physiology in general, as well as in oceanography and climatology related to polar life.
  • Issue cover artPolar geography by Taylor & Francis
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Polar Geography is a publication that offers a venue for scholarly research on the physical and human aspects of the Polar Regions. The journal seeks to address the component interplay of the natural systems, the complex historical, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and security issues, and the interchange amongst them. ...
  • Issue cover artPolar record by Scott Polar Research Institute
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Polar Record publishes articles in a wide variety of areas of polar research in both the Arctic and the Antarctic and keeping its readers up to date with an extensive range of topics and concerns.
  • Cover issue artPolar science by Kokuritsu Kyokuchi Kenkyūjo
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Polar Science is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly journal. It is dedicated to publishing original research articles for sciences relating to the polar regions of the Earth and other planets.

Indexes Specifically for Polar Studies

These are some of the main databases for researching Polar Studies.

  • Resource logoADA - Arctic Discovery & Access by Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ADA: Arctic Discovery & Access is a digital educational service that provides access to scientific research publications, research projects derived from license and permit information, K-12 educational resources, data management resources for researchers, virtual exhibits, and the Arctic Institute of North America's online archives and special collections. ADA expands the former ASTIS that began in 1978. ...
  • UAF Alaska & polar periodical index by University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The Alaska & Polar Regions Index cites articles in English about Alaska, northern Canada, northern Scandinavia, the Russian Far East, and Antarctica. It does not contain the full text of those articles, but all were received by the UAF Rasmuson Library. The coverage is strongest from the 1980s to 2016. ...
  • COLD database by American Geosciences Institute
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The COLD Database includes the USPA Permafrost Alert Program, Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology and Antarctic Bibliography (1950-2011).

Other relevant indexes

These are other databases you can use for researching Polar Studies.

  • Resource logoAnthroSource by American Anthropological Association
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    AnthroSource is a service of the American Anthropological Association that offers members and subscribing libraries full-text anthropological resources from the breadth and depth of the discipline. ...
  • Bibliography of Indigenous peoples of North America (BIPNA) by EBSCO; HRAF
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples of North America (BIPNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BIPNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
  • Resource logoGeoRef by Elsevier
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index covers all areas of the Earth Sciences. It also covers a wide range of Physical Geography too.
  • Resource logoSociological abstracts by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    All scholarly literature for Sociology.
  • Resource logoWeb of science citation databases by Clarivate
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
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