Pages 560-563 in S. Chatwood, P. Orr and Tiina Ikaheimo, eds. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Yellowknife, Canada, July 11-16, 2009. Securing the IPY Legacy: from Research to Action. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2010; 69 (Suppl 7).
Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Pages 560-563 in S. Chatwood, P. Orr and Tiina Ikaheimo, eds. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Yellowknife, Canada, July 11-16, 2009. Securing the IPY Legacy: from Research to Action. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2010; 69 (Suppl 7).
Objective: The Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database (CHBD) contains 4,850 records describing publications about all aspects of human health in the circumpolar region. The database is a project of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team in circumpolar health research. In this paper we describe the CHBD.
Methods: Descriptive study.
Results: The CHBD induces all types of publications, both peer-reviewed and "gray" (not peer-reviewed) literature, in paper and digital formats. It can be searched using words from titles and abstracts, names of diseases or conditions, types of people, geographic regions, authors, years and special groups of publications, such as all publications of the members of the CIHR Team. Search results can be sorted by year or by first author. The records in the CHBD contain citations, abstracts, subject and geographic indexing terms, library symbols and links to 2,000 online publications. As part of the CHBD project, server space is available to make PDF files of publications available online. Records created for the CHBD also appear in the Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS), the international Arctic & Antarctic Regions database and in relevant Canadian regional databases, such as the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database, the Nunavut Environmental Database and the Nunavik Bibliography.
Conclusions: The CHBD's coverage is far from comprehensive but the database includes many publications not indexed elsewhere, such as "gray" literature from Canada's northern territories, all human health publications from the Northern Contaminants Program and International Polar Year health publications.