BC Geological Survey Publications Catalogue

Since its inception in 1895, the British Columbia Geological Survey has created, delivered, and archived geoscience data. The British Columbia Geological Survey (BCGS) Publications Catalogue is an index of over 5580 publications, articles and databases of the BCGS, Petroleum Geoscience, and Geoscience BC. Publications form a key element of the products of the Survey and include an archive, dating back to 1874. The catalogue is searchable through the web, Google and the BC Data Catalogue. The catalogue is available as a CSV file and an MS Access database download. All British Columbia Geological Survey publications are downloadable, free of charge. Many can be viewed in hard copy at the James T. Fyles Natural Resource Library (1810 Blanshard St, Victoria), and as part of university library collections. Publications can be searched on MapPlace, with results either displayed as footprints on the map or as a table of results with links to the publication.

Datasets available for download

• BC Geological Survey Publications CatalogueHTML
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• BC Geological Survey Publication IndexCSV
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• Annual Reports
• Bulletins
• CGKN
• Databases
• Exploration in B.C.
• GeoFile
• Geology
• Geoscience Maps
• Information Circulars
• Maps
• Mineral Exploration Review
• Mineral Potential Maps
• Papers
• Preliminary Maps
• Surficial geology
• bedrock geology
• geoscience data
• open file

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Last Updated	October 19, 2025, 23:26 (UTC)
Created	October 19, 2025, 23:26 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	BC Geological Survey Publications Catalogue
Description A description of the dataset.	Since its inception in 1895, the British Columbia Geological Survey has created, delivered, and archived geoscience data. The British Columbia Geological Survey (BCGS) Publications Catalogue is an index of over 5580 publications, articles and databases of the BCGS, Petroleum Geoscience, and Geoscience BC. Publications form a key element of the products of the Survey and include an archive, dating back to 1874. The catalogue is searchable through the web, Google and the BC Data Catalogue. The catalogue is available as a CSV file and an MS Access database download. All British Columbia Geological Survey publications are downloadable, free of charge. Many can be viewed in hard copy at the James T. Fyles Natural Resource Library (1810 Blanshard St, Victoria), and as part of university library collections. Publications can be searched on MapPlace, with results either displayed as footprints on the map or as a table of results with links to the publication.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Annual Reports Bulletins CGKN Databases Exploration in B.C. GeoFile Geology Geoscience Maps Information Circulars Maps Mineral Exploration Review Mineral Potential Maps Papers Preliminary Maps Surficial geology bedrock geology geoscience data open file
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2016-04-15
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	Access Only
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-geological-survey-publications-catalogue
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	BC Geological Survey
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	Lawrence Aspler
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	[email protected]
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=3FAF85A0B1194D1FBF0AEE06BBEF2B6E
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.	This catalogue was created from the former Metadata Catalogue of the Canadian Geoscience Knowledge Network (CGKN) of the National Geological Surveys Committee initiated in 2000. The Catalogue was discontinued from CGKN in 2015.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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