Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

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The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA grant.

  • Context:
    • Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
    • It can (typically) be operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.
    • It can (typically) maintain three bibliographic collections containing more than 15 million records covering publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and general science, including all arXiv e-prints.
    • It can (often) provide advanced discovery and evaluation capabilities by tracking citations and usage of its records.
    • It can (often) link to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles available from publishers’ websites, astronomical object information, data catalogs, and datasets hosted by external archives.
    • It includes more than 13 million publications with full abstracts and links to published works and maintains a list of citations for these publications
    • It hosts over 600,000 historical documents, dating back to the 19th century, and users can search for titles, authors, and terms within full texts.
    • ...
  • Example(s):
  • Counter-Example(s):
    • ACM Digital Library,
    • PubMed, a similar digital library portal but for biomedical literature.
    • Google Scholar, a broadly focused digital repository and search engine for academic publications across disciplines.
  • See: NASA, Digital Libraries, Bibliographic Database, Open Access, arXiv.


References

2024

2015

  • (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics_Data_System Retrieved:2015-1-28.
    • The Astrophysics Data System (ADS), developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is an online database of over eight million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources. Abstracts are available free online for almost all articles, and full scanned articles are available in Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) for older articles. New articles have links to electronic versions hosted at the journal's webpage, but these are typically available only by subscription (which most astronomy research facilities have). It is managed by the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

      ADS is a powerful research tool and has had a significant impact on the efficiency of astronomical research since it was launched in 1992. Literature searches that previously would have taken days or weeks can now be carried out in seconds via the ADS search engine, custom-built for astronomical needs. Studies have found that the benefit to astronomy of the ADS is equivalent to several hundred million US dollars annually, and the system is estimated to have tripled the readership of astronomical journals.

      Use of ADS is almost universal among astronomers worldwide, and therefore ADS usage statistics can be used to analyze global trends in astronomical research. These studies have revealed that the amount of research an astronomer carries out is related to the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of the country in which he/she is based, and that the number of astronomers in a country is proportional to the GDP of that country, so the total amount of research done in a country is proportional to the square of its GDP divided by its population.[1]

2009

  • (SAO/ADS, 2009) ⇒ http://adswww.harvard.edu/
    • QUOTE: The SAO/NASAn Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 7.8 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through highly customizable query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed or searched via our full-text search interface. Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives. We currently have links to over 8.4 million records maintained by our collaborators.