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The Alaska & Polar Regions Index cites articles in English about Alaska, northern Canada, northern Scandinavia, the Russian Far East, and Antarctica. It does not contain the text of those articles, but all are received by the UAF Rasmuson Library. More than 200,000 articles are covered, and most articles are not in any other index. Coverage is strong from the 1980s to 2016. There are articles from key periodicals such as "National Geographic" (1890 to 2012), "Alaska Life: the Territorial Magazine" (1938-1946), the UA student newspaper "Farthest North Collegian" (1923-1958), etc. Obituaries for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Alaska Dispatch News, and the Juneau Empire are indexed through June 30, 2016. For obituaries after this date, digital versions exist through Legacy.com.