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Comprehensive Astrophysics Data System: A Resource for Astronomy and Physics Research

The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) serves as a vital resource for the astrophysics community, offering access to 22 million citing-cited pairs, 10 million internal links, and 6 million external links. With holdings including 3.3 million physics documents and 1.3 million in astronomy, it features scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and historical publications. Users benefit from customized browsing options, reading histories, and access to a wealth of abstracts and full texts, making it an essential tool for researchers in the field.

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Comprehensive Astrophysics Data System: A Resource for Astronomy and Physics Research

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  1. The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System Michael J. Kurtz Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  2. ADS Holdings • Astronomy 1.3M • Physics 3.3M • arXiv 0.4M • General 0.5M

  3. ADS Holdings • 22M Citing-Cited Pairs • 6M external links • 10M internal links • 0.5M scanned articles • Historical Observatory Publications

  4. ADS Holdings • 0.1M PhDT • 1.2M unrefereed articles (mainly conf) • 0.4M conf abstracts • 2.9M refereed articles • In 2006 0.85M added, 0.25 2006

  5. Current Projects • Metadata for 400,000 pages Obs Pubs • CERN Library holdings • 99 years Astronomisches Jahresbericht and Astronomy & Astrophysics Abstracts

  6. Physics/Astronomy • Astronomy is very complete, all journals with references, nearly all conference proceedings, PhDT, monographs, links to data, arXiv, … • Physics nearly all journals, most with references, arXiv, conference proceedings needs work, PhDT needs work, …

  7. ADS Users Download • 3.2M abstracts per month • 0.6M full text articles • 0.1M citation lists • 0.03M also read lists • 0.03M reference lists • 0.01M data links • 0.01M links to data centers

  8. ADS Users • Direct from Google 1.7M bipm • Non-Google 1.1M bipm • Mixed 1.2M bipm • Users who come in from Google are VERY different from the typical astronomers who use ADS

  9. Some ADS featuresA Quick Tour • Top cited articles by subject • Choose articles with “redshift survey” in the abstract, which are the most cited?

  10. ADS Features • Personal Reads History • Kept for 90 days

  11. ADS Features • Custom Lists • The Private Library • Custom Analysis • 2nd Order Operators • Reads • Cites • References

  12. Customized ADS • myADS-Astronomy • myADS-Physics • myADS-arXiv • a custom, open access, virtual journal

  13. ads.harvard.edu

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