These tasks include the activities listed below. Electronic Access to Polar Information Resources PolarPac version 3, the CD-ROM database of international polar regions bibliographic information, was published in the summer of 1993. Serials titles are already included from these libraries and several dozen worldwide. PolarPac version 4, with new files from Russian libraries, is due out in 1995. Arctic and Antarctic Regions, NISC's CD-ROM suite of polar regions reference databases from around the world, in its Fall 1994 version, has over half a million records, mostly of journal articles.
Reference databases from the U.S., U.K. and Canada are globally searchable.
The two CD-ROMs complement each other to a great extent to include coverage of all cold regions and document types such as monographs, serial analytics and technical reports. Both library catalogs and reference databases are included on the disks. There are ten sections at present, all of which are interesting and useful to the polar science and information science community. Both the guide-Arctic Information and Data. A Directory- appear here in full text under Polar Libraries and Polar Information Directories.