International Polar Year Publications Database

(2010) International Polar Year Publications Database..

Official URL: http://www.nisc.com/ipy

Abstract

The International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) will attempt to identify and describe all publications that result from, or that are about, the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 and the three previous IPYs. The IPYPD is part of the IPY Data and Information Service (IPYDIS). The IPYPD has been created by the Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS), the Cold Regions Bibliography Project (CRBP), the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) Library, the Discovery and Access of Historic Literature of the IPYs (DAHLI) project and NISC Export Services (NES). The success of the IPYPD depends on the willingness of IPY researchers, educators and communicators to report their publications, as required by the IPY Data Policy and the IPY Scholarly Publications Policy, and as described on the Reporting Your Publications page. It is estimated that the IPY 2007-2008 will result in approximately 20,000 publications, the majority of which will be published in the ten years following 2008. The IPYPD makes use of NES's capability to convert bibliographic records from ASTIS, CRBP, SPRI and DAHLI into a standard format, and to identify duplicate records and combine them into composite records. The database is updated four times per year. The records in the IPYPD contain references, detailed subject and geographic indexing terms, abstracts, and, in most cases, links to the online full-text of the publications. The IPYPD considers IPY publications prepared for education, outreach and communication (EOC) purposes to be equal in importance to research publications, and allows users to limit their searches to just EOC publications using the Audience field. The IPYPD covers all publications about the IPYs, regardless of whether or not they were produced by IPY projects. The Cold Regions Bibliography Project is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory under NSF Grant No. OPP-0440772. Work by ASTIS on the IPYPD has been made possible by the generous support of the Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year and EnCana Corporation. The Royal Society supports the work of the World Data Centre for Glaciology at the Scott Polar Research Institute in its contribution to the IPYPD. SPRI is also supported by the Directorate of Naval Surveying, Oceanography & Meteorology. The Discovery and Access of Historic Literature of the IPYs (DAHLI) project would like to thank the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program for digitization funding.

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