Why OPEN POLAR?

There is a 60% findability gap of the polar
records based on the records numbers of 115
metadata providers (doi.org/10.7557/7.4682)

This 60% findability gap raises an awareness sign of the need of the scientific community to create a homogeneous, seamless database of the open-access records about the polar regions and making this database available to researchers, students and the wider public through one search platform.

Based on the obligations and the motivations of the University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) toward making research data and research documents available to the scientific community, UiT together with the Norwegian Polar Institute launched the OPEN POLAR project.