Databases

The Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) database contains 75,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada. ASTIS includes all subjects and covers the three territories, the northern parts of seven provinces and the adjacent marine areas. ASTIS records contain abstracts, detailed subject and geographic indexing terms, and links to 19,000 publications that are available online.

ASTIS is responsible for the Canadian IPY Publications Database, which is part of the International Polar Year Publications Database.

The following databases are subsets of the main ASTIS database. They provide selected records and background information for specific regions, subjects or projects.

The Nunavut Database, describing 30,700 publications and research projects about Nunavut.
The Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database, describing 11,700 publications and research projects about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
The Hydrocarbon Impacts database, describing 7900 publications and research projects about the environmental impacts, socio-economic effects and regulation of oil and gas exploration, development and transportation in northern Canada. See the Key Publications page for an overview of the literature.
The Yukon Biodiversity Database, describing 7500 publications and research projects about the biology of Yukon and the Beaufort Sea.
The Nunavik Bibliography, describing 6700 publications about northern Quebec.
The Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database, describing 6200 publications about all aspects of human health in the circumpolar region.
The Canadian IPY Publications Database, describing 3500 publications by or about International Polar Year projects in Canada.
The Arctic Contents page of this website, which provides access to the 2600 papers, notes, commentaries, editorials, profiles, obituaries and essays that have appeared in AINA's peer-reviewed journal Arctic.
The NCP Publications Database, describing 2500 publications that have resulted from the Northern Contaminants Program.
The Northern Granular Resources Bibliographic Database, describing 2000 publications about granular resources (gravel, sand and crushed rock for use in construction) in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. See the Key Publications page for an overview.
The ArcticNet Publications Database, describing 1800 publications that have resulted from ArcticNet, the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES) and the International North Water Polynya Study (NOW).
The Kluane Lake Research Station Bibliography, describing 1100 publications resulting from research at AINA's Kluane Lake Research Station.
The Mining and the Aquatic Environment Bibliography, describing 530 publications on the effects of hard rock mining on the aquatic environment of Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
The Canadian Permafrost Conferences website, which provides searching and viewing of the 256 papers and other items that appeared in the proceedings of the six Canadian Permafrost Conferences (1962-2010).
The AES NWT Water Bibliography, describing 218 publications prepared under the Arctic Environmental Strategy on all aspects of fresh water in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

ASTIS is working to improve its coverage of publications from the following northern Canadian research projects. (See the Project menu of the KLRS Bibliography for projects based at Kluane.) We may be able to create searchable publication databases for these projects in the future, but for now we are making available these incomplete lists of citations sorted by author.

All of the 4000 publications on the AINA Publications Server are available through ASTIS.