The unique Arctic environment effects significant technological and economic barriers to developing the Alaskan oil and gas resource. Therefore, the US DOE has established a computerized information system to assist the technology and planning community in the development of Arctic oil and gas resources. This report/manual describes the Arctic and Offshore Research Information System (AORIS), how it was developed, and how it can be used. The AORIS has an on-line thesaurus and other personal computer, user-friendly aids to assist in querying the AORIS. There are three principal components: a directory component that serves as a ROADMAP to 85 Arctic databases containing Arctic energy-related information and how to access them; a Bibliographic component containing over 8,000 references and abstracts on energy-related research (sea ice, ice gouging, seafloor soils, subsea permafrost, seismic activity, and offshore structures,5681 ); and a DATA component containing over 800 data sets, extracted from the cited material in the BIBLIO component, in both tabular and graphical formats, on sea ice characteristics and ice-structure interaction. AORIS also contains a significant amount of the so-called grey literature, i.e., data and/or locations of Arctic data collected but never published. The AORIS, its operational software, and users'manual are contained on Compact Disk -- Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM) media. The AORIS is available through the Energy Science and Technology Software Center, P.O. Box 1020, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-1020.