This guide is designed for students in the interdisciplinary graduate program of Northern Studies in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies.
Begin with:
- The Arctic: what everyone needs to know
- The future history of the Arctic
- Ice Blink: navigating northern environmental history
Reference material
- Arctic cinemas and the documentary ethos
- Encyclopedia of the Arctic (print only)
- Encyclopedia of scientific dating methods
- Exploring Polar Frontiers: a historical encyclopedia (print only)
- Historical Dictionary of the Inuit (print only)
- A history of the Arctic: nature, exploration and exploitation (print only)
- International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Fulltext eBook collections
Recommended books
- Breaking Ice: renewable resource and ocean management in the Canadian North
- Contaminants in Canada's North state of knowledge and regional highlights (2017)
- Herschel Island: a natural and cultural hisotry of Yukon's arctic island FC4045.H47H47 2012, Floor 5
- The Inuit and Northern experience
If you cannot find the material you need, you can get books and articles from other libraries via Interlibrary Loans, but first you must set up a RACER account to submit interlibrary loan requests.
Search Omni, the Library's search and discovery tool, to find peer-reviewed journal articles (and/or books) on any topic.
1. Enter topic in search box.
2. Focus results by using the filters in the left menu under under "Refine your results":
- Availability - Peer reviewed Journals
- Resource Type - Articles
- Publication Date (optional)
- Subject (optional)
3. Click on Omni Search Tips for more information.
Subject specific Databases for Northern Studies:
- Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS)
- Bibliography of Native North Americans
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs
- Canadian Public Documents Collection
- Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database
- Environment Index
- GEOBASE
- GeoScienceWorld
- Indigenous Studies Portal
- ScienceDirect Journals
- Sociological Abstracts
- SPRILIB Ice and Snow
Interdisciplinary Databases
- Scopus
- Web of Science
- Google Scholar - performs broad searches for academic sources which can include free sources not available in other databases.
Theses and Dissertations
- Dissertations and Theses Global - Theses and dissertations from around the world, beginning in 1743.
- Dissertations and Theses@Carleton - Theses and dissertations produced at Carleton.
- CURVE - includes Carleton theses and dissertations, as well as other research deposited by faculty, staff, and students.
Government Information
Begin here:
Other government websites:
- Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Canadian Polar Commission (archived 2015)
- Canadian Research Index
- Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Indigenous Services Canada
- Natural Resources Canada
- Northern Contaminants Program
Useful Websites
If you are just beginning your research, try browsing through ArcticNet, a web site that brings together scientists and managers in the natural, human health and social sciences with their partners from Inuit organizations, northern communities, federal and provincial agencies and the private sector to study the impacts of climate change in the coastal Canadian Arctic.
- ACUNS - Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
- AMAP - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
- Arctic Council
- Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
- Arctic Studies Center – Smithsonian Institution
- CARC - Canadian Arctic Resources Committee
- International Arctic Science Committee
- International Union of Circumpolar Health
- Inuit Circumpolar Council of Canada
- Nunavut Research Institute
- PolarInfo Database
- Scott Polar Research Institute
Data and Statistics
- Arctic Ice Sea Graphs
- Canadian Cryospheric Information Network
- GeoData Center - Geophysical Institute
- Polar Data Catalogue
- Arctic Stat
- Statistics Canada
- See also the library's full list of surveys.
Atlases and Maps
- Arctic Environmental Atlas e-resource
- GCRC Atlases - Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University
- NRCan - The North
- Pan Inuit Trails atlas e-resource
See also the library's curated online map collection.
GIS
See also the library's GIS web page for help.
Writing Guides
Thesis & Dissertation:
- Mapping your thesis; the comprehensive manual of theory and techniques for masters and doctoral research, LB2369.W49 2011, Floor 4
- How to do your dissertation in geography and related disciplines
- Research literacies and writing pedagogies for masters and doctoral writers
Literature reviews:
- Conducting a Literature Review (web guide)
- Communicating in geography and environmental sciences (e-book)
- The Literature Review: six steps to success LB1047.3.M33 2016, Floor 4
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