Arctic & Northern Studies: Find Articles & Other Sources

2000+ reports and assessments from The Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum providing a means for promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States, involving Arctic Indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common issues, especially sustainable development and environmental protection.

Collection of 1000+ Arctic-relevant scientific and educational resources, including material produced in various Arctic research programs and projects and within the scope of Arctic research institutions and organizations

Over 1 million open-access research documents and datasets thematically relevant to the high north, covering all subjects and many languages; hosted by UiT The Arctic University in Norway

Publications of the Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center from SRO, the Smithsonian's digital repository. Includes Gateways Project (2001-2017), newsletter (1994-2017), and 20+ free ebooks.

University of Alaska Fairbanks database of 200,000+ citations for articles about Alaska, northern Canada, northern Scandinavia, the Russian Far East, and Antarctica. No full text.

The Arctic Institute of North America's ASTIS database contains 84,000+ records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada

Project, regional, and subject databases from the Arctic Science and Technology Information System

Contains 10,000+ citations to articles about all aspects of human health in the circumpolar region. Abstracts only.

Contains 300,000+ citations to scientific and engineering research related to material and operations in a winter battlefield, the nature and impact of cold on facilities and activities, cold-related environmental problems, and the impact of human activity on cold environments.

Indexes literature written by explorers, missionaries, ethnographers, and others who were among the first Euroamericans to travel among and write about Inuit/Eskimo peoples. Citations only.

Indexes publications that result from, or that are about, the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 and the three previous IPYs. Approximately 5,000 records, with some links to full-text.

A cooperative long-term project to build a comprehensive bibliographic database about northern Quebec. Citations only.

60,000+ references (1996-2004) to northern and native subjects, covering health, education, law, business, political science, geology, cold regions engineering, vegetation, and wildlife. Strong in the history of northern exploration and current topics such as native landclaims, native health and educational issues, mining, and the environmental impacts of development in the north.

Contains citations to about 40,000 works about snow and ice published from 1661 through to 2003.

Contains citations to about 25,000 records, listing works published from 1671 through to 2003.