RSS Recent UpdatesThe ARLIS database collection includes more than twenty-five titles, offering time saving keys to the natural and cultural resources literature of Alaska and related subjects. An increasing number of titles, including Ecology and Wildlife Worldwide, Environment Complete, and Fish, Fisheries, ad Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide offer full text documents in addition to the carefully selected citations and abstracts. Anyone may consult these databases at ARLIS on a walk-in basis. Registered employees of ARLIS Founder Agencies also have desktop access to the ARLIS database collection.
Federal Depository Library
ARLIS selects federal depository items and provides free public access. Edward H. Cobb compiled and annotated the Index of Metallic Mineral Deposits of Alaska from Published Reports of Federal and State Agencies through 1972. Arranged by quadrangle, this index is invaluable for locating published geological literature of Alaska by location. Cobb’s handwritten annotations indicate the series in which the source was published.
The index is well known to librarians and library users as “Cobb’s Index.” In the ARLIS Library Catalog, the index is the first result returned by a keyword search on Cobb metallic mineral
or by an exact author search on Cobb, Edward Huntington.
Printed volumes of Cobb’s Index are maintained in Special Collections at ARLIS. The Index is also available as a large (62 megabyte) download from the ARLIS website.
Collection Spotlight
Public Review Documents
Documents for public review, received from state or federal agencies or other organizations. These items are not in the catalog and are not available for checkout. Items are shelved by geographic location and there is an index on the shelf.
Anaconda Minerals Exploration Collection
More than 10,000 digital and paper records of mineral exploration data in Alaska, collected between 1974 and 1984 by the Anaconda Minerals Company and other mining companies.
Mine File Fiche
The Mine File Fiche is an index, until 1986, providing information on the claim owner, company, location, type (load or placer), mineral type, years a claim was active, and whether a claim had been proved up on.
MAS Files (Mineral Availability System/Mineral Assessment Studies)
The Minerals Availability System (MAS) measured and classified identified mineral resources according to their extraction technologies, economics and commercial availability. The paper and digital files contain information on occurrences, deposits, mines and processing facilities in Alaska.
