Operation of the Antarctic Bibliography and the Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology

这本广受好评的《南极书目》由美国国会图书馆为1951-1998年期间编写，涵盖了世界上所有关于南极洲和南大洋的严肃的非虚构文学作品。它将由美国地质学会(http://www.agiweb.org/)，)重新激活，该机构将与世界各地的机构和科学家合作，保持效率、完整性、实用性和可见性。自1998年10月1日以来覆盖范围的差距将在两年内缩小。《南极书目》将在网上和光盘上提供。书目涵盖了包括美国在内的约27个南极条约国家所从事的科学、工程和业务学科。AGI的任务是在现有的约60 000项数据库中增加新的引文和摘要，以便于获得新引文的全文，并设法改进项目期间已被引用的项的全文的缩微胶片文件的可用性。其目标是方便获取文献，以提高科学家在确定研究项目和实现研究成果方面的有效性，并改善科学家、教育工作者、学生和其他人获得研究的机会。

The acclaimed Antarctic Bibliography, prepared by the Library of Congress for the period 1951-1998, covers all the world's serious nonfiction literature regarding Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It will be reactivated by the American Geological Institute (http://www.agiweb.org/), producer of GeoRef, which will work with institutions and scientists worldwide to sustain efficiency, completeness, utility, and visibility. The gap in coverage since 1 October 1998 is to be closed within 2 years. The Antarctic Bibliography will be available on the web and on CD-ROM.The bibliography covers the scientific, engineering, and operational disciplines pursued by some 27 Antarctic Treaty nations, including the United States. AGI's tasks are to add new citations and abstracts to the existing database of some 60,000 items, to ease availability of full texts of newly cited items, and to seek to improve availability of the microfiche file of full texts of items that have been cited over the life of the project. The goal is to ease access to the literature in order to increase scientists' effectiveness in defining research projects and achieving research output and to improve access to research for scientists, educators, students, and others.