Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Abstract
The need to exchange information on research in reindeer and
caribou diseases became apparent to investigators attending the Second
International Reindeer/Caribou Symposium in Roros, Norway, in 1979.
Initially, bibliographies were to be exchanged by being submitted to and
subsequently distributed by workers at the University of Alaska. When
the bibliographies were submitted, it seemed sensible to computerize the
lists to facilitate searches for specific information in the future. An
apparently simple task became amazingly complex. This is the resultant collection of publications by
reindeer/caribou disease researchers. Because researchers in wildlife
diseases tend to work on more than one species or topic, out of interest
or necessity, a decision was made to include all of a person's
references rather than to limit them to strictly reindeer/caribou
diseases.
The authors hope this will provide a good basis for exchange of
information among all those interested in reindeer/caribou diseases