International Polar Year (IPY) Publications Solicitation
Please Report Your IPY Publications
The database is available at:
http://www.nisc.com/ipy
For further information, please contact:
Ross Goodwin
Arctic Institute of North America
Email: rgoodwin [at] ucalgary.ca
The International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) will attempt
to identify and describe all publications that result from, or 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).
If you are working on an IPY project, please report your project's
publications to the IPYPD.
Reporting a publication is easy. Email a DOI, URL, PDF or citation. The
IPYPD covers most types of peer-reviewed and gray literature
publications, on all types of media. In addition to research
publications, the database includes education, outreach and
communication publications. Please see the "Reporting Your Publications"
page of the IPYPD website for more information on how to report your
publications: http://www.nisc.com/ipy.
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 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
National Information Services Corporation (NISC). Other polar
bibliographic databases and libraries are welcome to contribute, as
described on the Contributing Records page.
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.
Including your publications in the IPYPD will ensure that they are
listed in other polar bibliographic databases. Please help to preserve
the legacy of IPY 2007-2008 by reporting your publications.
For additional information about the database, and instructions for
reporting publications, please go to:
http://www.nisc.com/ipy
Or contact:
Ross Goodwin
Arctic Institute of North America
E-mail: rgoodwin [at] ucalgary.ca