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Short Title: IPYPD Project URL: http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=51 The IPY Publications Database will identify and index the publications that result from the International Polar Year 2007-2008. This activity is a crucial part of IPY data management. Providing searchable metadata for IPY publications is as important as providing searchable metadata for IPY datasets. The IPY Publications Database is essential for the identification, dissemination and preservation of the achievements of the IPY. Twenty years from now, when someone asks, "What did the IPY accomplish?". The IPY Publications Database will provide a major part of the answer. As described in later sections of this proposal, the IPY Publications Database will also make a significant contribution to achieving the legacy, education, outreach and communication targets of the IPY. The IPY Publications Database will be created by an expansion of the existing polar bibliographic infrastructure. The Cold Regions Bibliography Project (CRBP) at the American Geological Institute currently produces the Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology and the Antarctic Bibliography. The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) Library at the University of Cambridge produces the SPRILIB database and assists the CRBP with the Antarctic Bibliography. The Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) at the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, produces the ASTIS database. All of these databases, and others, are combined by National Information Services Corporation (NISC) to produce the Arctic & Antarctic Regions (AAR) database describing more than one million polar publications. The IPY Publications Database will be created by dividing responsibility for the coverage of IPY publications between the CRBP, the SPRI Library and ASTIS; by using the IPY Data Policy to ensure that all IPY publications are reported to at least one of these organizations; by obtaining funding that allows these organizations to index the increased number of polar publications that will result from the IPY; and by having NISC include the resulting bibliographic records in both the AAR database and a new free IPY Publications Database. Bibliographic records (metadata) for IPY publications will include citations, detailed subject and geographic indexing terms, and, in most cases, abstracts. Most IPY publications will be available online, and the records describing IPY publications will contain DOIs or URLs linking to the full-text of the publications. With the IPY Joint Committee support for this proposal, the members of the consortium are confident that they can obtain the necessary funding for this activity. At the peak of IPY indexing, which will occur two to four years after the IPY observation years, the amount of new money required may be about 10% of the consortium members' normal budgets. Raising this amount of additional money should be quite feasible. In the unlikely event that sufficient new money cannot be obtained, the members of the consortium will index as many IPY publications as possible themselves, and will encourage other members of the Polar Libraries Colloquy (the international organization of polar libraries and databases) to help fill any gaps. Providing access to the publications that result from the IPY is just as important as providing access to other types of IPY data. The IPY Publications Database will ensure that IPY publications are identified and made accessible.
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