Dear Colleagues,
The ASTIS database, containing 46,000 records describing publications
and research projects about northern Canada, is now available on the Web at:
http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/astis
ASTIS (the Arctic Science and Technology Information System) is maintained
by the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary and is
made available on the Web for free with support from the Canadian Polar
Commission.
ASTIS includes all subjects, and covers all of Canada north of the
southern limit of discontinuous permafrost as well as adjacent marine
areas. The publications cited in the database include both gray and
peer-reviewed literature published from 1978 to the present. The 10,800
research project descriptions in ASTIS cover the period from 1974 to the
present and are based on information supplied by the organizations that
licence field research in northern Canada.
ASTIS can be searched from a Simple Search page, an Advanced Search page
and by clicking on hyperlinks in database records. Searchable fields
include words from titles and abstracts, broad subject and geographic
codes, detailed subject and geographic terms, personal and corporate
authors, year and record type.
Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
Ross Goodwin
rgoodwin [at] ucalgary.ca
Arctic Institute of North America
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB, Canada
T2N 1N4
403/220-4036
403/282-4609 fax
http://www.ucalgary.ca/aina/