Abstract:
Bibliographic information for documents held by the Information Center
(Library) of the World Data Center-A for Glaciology and by the
National Snow and Ice Data Center is stored in an off-line
machine-readable database. Access is by author, title, publication
date, language, subject, geographic location. Journal articles,
reprints, technical reports and conference
... or compendium papers are
catalogued individually, as are all monographs. The database contains
no abstracts. Subjects covered include sea ice, polar ice masses,
freshwater ice, glaciers, seasonal snow cover, avalanches, permafrost,
paleoglaciology, and climate change. Semi-controlled vocabulary of
subject descriptors is based on the Library of Congress Cold Regions
Bibliography Project/U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering
Laboratory (CRREL) vocabulary. Several products provide access to the
collection for on-site and remote users: 1) author, title, subject and
geographic access via an in-house PC data base; 2) New Accessions
List, a quarterly publication, provides subject access to items
received during the previous quarter; 3) custom searches by
Information Center staff produce paper listings for mail, telephone or
in-person requests. Document delivery is keynote of services provided.
The database is also available on the Arctic and Antarctic Regions
CD-ROM produced by NISC (National Information Services Corporation),
Suite 6, Wyman Towers, 3100 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
USA. Currently, the disc is updated semi-annually and indexes over
750,000 citations relating to polar regions research, including 35,000
from WDC-A/NSIDC.
Copies of any items held in the collection are available for 20 cents
per page, $10 minimum charge per order. All orders are shipped within
48 hours of receipt. Interlibrary loans are available for some
items. Database searches are available on request. Please inquire. 
