Arctic Blue Books
A searchable, World-Wide Web version of Andrew Taylor's unique index to the 19th Century British Parliamentary Papers concerned with the Canadian Arctic.

Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS)
The ASTIS database describes publications and research projects about northern Canada.

Barentsinfo.org
Gateway to the Barents region, portal containing links and articles about the Barents region

BIBSYS - Search Library database
BIBSYS is a library data center offering services to all Norwegian University Libraries, the National Library, all college libraries, and a number of research libraries.

Cold Regions Bibliography
The American Geological Institute (AGI) is continuing the Antarctic Bibliography and the Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology as part of the Cold Regions Bibliography Project. These bibliographies provide coverage of
- Antarctic research and exploration
- Cold Regions engineering and physical science information

Composite gazeteer of the Antarctic (CGA)
Access to a compilation of all names published for Antarctica.

Geographic guide to environmental literature - Polar regions
You can find books concerning environmental questions in Polar Regions via NHBS BookNet Search.

Hydrocarbon Impacts
The Hydrocarbon Impacts database describes publications and research projects about the environmental impacts, socio-economic effects and regulation of hydrocarbon exploration, development and transportation in northern Canada.

Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database
The Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database describes publications and research projects about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in northwest Canada.

Lapponica database
The Lapponica sources and expertise is focussed especially on Lapland and issues concerning other northern areas.

NCP Publications Database
The NCP Publications Database describes publications that have resulted from Canada's Northern Contaminants Program.

NISC
National Information Services Corporation (NISC) publishes a full range of bibliographic and full-text databases.

Nunavik Bibliography
The Nunavik Bibliography is a cooperative long-term project to build a comprehensive bibliographic database about northern Quebec.

Nunavut Environmental Database
The Nunavut Environmental Database describes publications and research projects about the Canadian territory of Nunavut and adjacent marine areas. It covers all subjects, not just the environment.

Polar and Cold Regions Libraries and Archives
Directory of Polar and cold regions libraries and archives

SAMBOK Norwegian union catalogue of monographs - Simple search (Norwegian - English)
Library services from the national library of Norway

Sámi Bibliography (Norwegian - English)
Sami Bibliography from the National Library of Norway, Rana Division

Sámi Library Service (Sámi - Norwegian)
Álgu Sámi girjerájusfáladagain mii ipmirdit bibliotehkafáladat mii sáhttá fállat sámi girjjiid sámegielat lohkiide, muhto mii maid galgá sistisdoallat sámiid birra daidda geat eai máhte sámegiela. Girjerájus galgá maid fállat eará ávdnasiid sámi servodagas, mii daguha eanet ipmardusa sámiid dili birra muðui.

Sámi University College (Norwegian - English - Sámi)
The college has a responsibility for saami higher education in general, and especially for teacher training.

Vestnord - Aviisitoqqat
VESTNORD is a digital library of newspapers and periodicals from the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland from the years 1773 to 2001

Wenger Eskimo Database
First contact and first observations in the literature pertaining to Eskimos.

Yukon Biodiversity Database
The Yukon Biodiversity Database describes publications and research projects about the biology of Canada's Yukon territory and the Beaufort Sea.

Data centres and directories

Antarctic Environmental Data Centre (AEDC)
Metadata access to all British Antarctic Survey data

Arctic Centre - databases
Connections to the databases dealing with the Barents Euro-Arctic region: Arctic Research Institutes, Experts, Barents Projects, Cold Climate Related Studies, Congresses.

Arctic Circle
Information on natural resources, history, culture, social equity and environmental justice in the arctic regions at the University of Connecticut.

Arctic Is
This website is concerned with Arctic cultures and environments, with a broad comparative focus on critical issues, problems and opportunities which face the peoples of the Circumpolar North. The aim is to increase understanding and contribute to an enlightened discourse on Arctic issues across the Internet using world.

Arctic Logistics Information And Support - ALIAS
ALIAS will serve as the primary access point and a comprehensive information source to help researchers to assess the feasibility of working in a specific area, plan the conduct of research, view current research in a given area, including maps and publications, and make useful scientific and logistics support contacts.

Arctic Research Consortium Austria
Contains links to Arctic research, stations, history, books, etc.

Baltic Sea States
Links to Baltic Sea States

Barentsinfo.org
Gateway to the Barents region, portal containing links and articles about the Barents region

Canadian Council of Archives
The Canadian Council of Archives has developed this directory of member institutions. The directory constitutes an important research resource for users seeking information about archives across the country.

CRREL Current Literature Search
You can now search the current volume of Current Literature-Cold Regions Science and Technology on Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Library Website.

Danish Polar Center
DPC provides services and logistics support to research projects in Greenland and publishes information and publications on polar research topics to the science communities and the general public.

Ethnologue Database
The Ethnologue is a catalog of the world's languages, including information on alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic information.

EurOcean
European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology

Ice/Weather/Ocean information available online
The Technical University of Denmark has for several years operated a free Internet based near-real-time ice/weather/ocean information system for the polar regions.

IPA - Frozen Ground WWW Sites
The International Permafrost Association is compiling these sites concerning frozen ground.

Mackenzie Gas Project and the Hydrocarbon Impacts Database
Describes 5700 publications and research projects about the environmental impacts, socio-economic effects and regulation of hydrocarbon exploration, development and transportation in northern Canada

Mapping and Geographic Information Group (MAGIC)
Mapping and Geographic Information Group (MAGIC) Information on maps and mapping for British Antarctic Territory

Native Web - resoures
Indexed and searchable database contains hundreds of links concerning Native, Aboriginal, and Indigenous internet resources on all seven continents.

NOAA Arctic Theme Page
This Arctic Theme Page provides access to widely distributed Arctic data and information for scientists, students, teachers, academia, managers, decision makers and the general public.

Northern Information Network (NIN)
NIN supports a variety of research initiatives in and about the North; including project impact assessments, sustainable development strategies, wildlife management planning, land-use planning, and emergency preparedness. Connection via telnet.

Polar Acronyms - IASC
The Secretariat of the International Arctic Science Committee has collected abbreviations of international, national and regional organizations and programmes that are related to polar science.

Polar and Cold Regions Libraries and Archives
Directory of Polar and cold regions libraries and archives

Polar Meteorology Web Resources
Comprehensive organized link list of those web locations into topics that specifically relate to the meteorology and climate of the Arctic and/or the Antarctic. You can for example: get the current polar weather, sea ice and snow conditions, find and download free polar atmospheric data for research, locate organizations, institutions and people involved in polar meteorology and climatology research.

Polar Programme UNEP/GRID-Arendal
The Polar Programme advocates sustainable development of the Arctic and Antarctica through building knowledge and awareness for sound decision-making, participating in international stakeholder processes, and further developing the capacity of Arctic peoples.

Scott Polar Research Institute
Well-known and long-established centre for research into both polar regions. It is part of the University of Cambridge and is a sub-department of the Department of Geography.

SPRI Information Resources
Information Resources listed by the Scott Polar Research Institute

Unaami Arctic Data Collection: Quantifying Arctic change across multiple disciplines
A collection of 85 multidisciplinary time series which represent pan-arctic change over the last 25 years, including: fisheries, biological, terrestrial, oceanic, sea ice, atmospheric and climate index data.

Zackenberg Research Station
The monitoring program "Zackenberg Basic" has for nearly ten years generated long-term monitoring data related to the marine and terrestrial high arctic ecosystems at Zackenberg (74°30'N / 21°00'W) in Northeast Greenland. This data is also availble online.

Museums

Ájtte
Svenskt Fjäll- och Samemuseum i JOKKMOKK

British Museum, Annuraaq: clothing of Arctic North America

Canadian Heritage Information Network
Museums in Canada

Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC)

Canadian Museum of Nature - Musée canadien de la nature
There are new Polar-oriented exhibits, also: Arctic Odyssey: See the Arctic through the eyes of Aboriginal people and scientists! Use the internet to communicate with Northern communities.

Inari Saami Museum and Northern Lapland Visitor Centre
The Saami Museum of Inari and the Northern Lapland Visitors Centre of the Finnish Forest and Park Services open their doors on April 1st, 1998 in the Inari village. The new building, called Siida, houses the joint cultural ecological exhibitions of the museum and visitor centre.

Ishavsmuseet Aarvak

Museum of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK

Polar Museums Directory
This directory provides brief details of museums with collections relating to the Arctic and Antarctic.

Provincial Museum of Lapland, Finland

Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic
The major museum for the history of Russian and Soviet polar exploration with ca. 75000 artefacts including paintings, drawings, sculpture, folk art, medals, etc. Four departments: Arctic natural history; History and exploration of the Northern Sea Route; Economy and culture of the people of the North; Antarctica.

Suomen museot / Museums in Finland
Museoliiton ylläpitämä luettelo museoista.

The Arctic Museum "Aarvak" at Brandal (Norwegian - English - German)
The Arctic Museum "Aarvak"' was founded in 1981 to preserve the traditions in Western Norway from sealing and other activities in the Arctic and the Antarctic Zones.

The Fram Museum (Norwegian - English - German - French)
The Fram museum is a polar museum. The worlds most famous Polarship FRAM is the main attraction. It is possible to go abroad the ship to see how the members of the expeditions lived. The museum also tells the story of the classical Norwegian polar expeditions which represent world history within polar research. In the exhibition you will also find a representative selection of animals from the polar areas in the south and in the north such as polarbears, penguins, muskoxs and birds

Tromsø Museum, Norway

Tromsø University Museum (Norwegian)

Research stations

Antarctica Online - Australian Antarctic Division
Administering Australia's wide-ranging activities in antarctic and subantarctic regions is the responsibility of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), a part of the Australian Government's Department of the Environment and Heritage.

The AAD seeks to advance Australia's antarctic interests in pursuit of its vision of having "Antarctica valued, protected and understood". It does this by conducting antarctic research and other activities aimed at achieving the Government’s antarctic goals, and by administering and maintaining a presence in Australian antarctic and subantarctic territories.

Kilpisjärvi Biological Center, University of Helsinki

Kings Bay A/S, Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Kings Bay operates and runs the worlds northernmost permanent settlement, Ny-Ålesund. Here Kings Bay is serving and delivering infrastructure as well as logistical services such as full board and lodging to scientists and research stations operating in Ny-Ålesund.

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NERSC)
Non-profit research centre affiliated to the University of Bergen. Sea ice is a major area of interest.

Ny-Ålesund International Arctic Environmental Research Station
Welcome to the Ny-Ålesund LSF Programme for the Ny-Ålesund International Arctic Environmental Research and Monitoring Facility, Svalbard, Norway

Sites Related to Science and the Arctic
The Institute for Advanced Field Education updates this site which contains data about biology, Arctic/Alpine Interdisciplinary Research Labs, Centers, Institutes, and the arctic in general.

SvalSat - Svalbard Satellite Station
The business idea for Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat) is to provide cost-effective services to polar satellite operators. Satellite owners and operators may use existing equipment on a time and cost sharing basis, while some users may want to locate edicated equipment at the site.

The Roald Amundsen Centre for Arctic Research (Norwegian - English)
The Roald Amundsen Centre for Arctic Research is an umbrella-organisation for all those involved in Arctic research at the University, irrespective of faculty affiliation. The main objective of the Centre is to enhance Arctic research at the University of Tromsø.

Zackenberg Research Station
The monitoring program "Zackenberg Basic" has for nearly ten years generated long-term monitoring data related to the marine and terrestrial high arctic ecosystems at Zackenberg (74°30'N / 21°00'W) in Northeast Greenland. This data is also availble online.