Accessing SPRI resources remotely

The best way to make use of SPRI Library is to visit. However, a number of services have been developed for those wishing to make use of our collections at a distance.

SPRILIB

• SPRILIB records accessible online for the Antarctica, Ice and Snow and Russian North databases
• SPRILIB monograph records can be searched using the Cambridge University Union Catalogue

Retrospective bibliographies

Subject searches on your chosen topic using the polar bibliographic databases:

• SPRILIB
• Arctic and Antarctic Regions and PolarPac. Databases available include: Antarctic Bibliography, ASTIS, Bibliography of Alaska and Polar Regions, BOREAL, C-CORE, CRREL, INAC and WDC-A.

Document supply

• Photocopies of material available on request (subject to copyright). Many items in the collection are unavailable from any other library, including the British Document Supply Centre. This applies to both historic and current material.

Publications

• Polar and Glaciological Abstracts is published three times a year with subject/geographic and author indexes listing all recent catalogued material.