Astrophysics Data System

SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
ProducerSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States)
History1992 to present
Access
CostFree
Coverage
DisciplinesAstronomy and physics
Record depthIndex & abstract & full-text
Geospatial coverageWorldwide
Links
Websiteui.adsabs.harvard.edu

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is an online database of over 15 million records of publications developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on astronomy and physics. Abstracts are freely available for most articles, and fully scanned articles may be available in Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) and Portable Document Format (PDF). Hosted papers may be from peer reviewed or non-peer-reviewed sources. ADS is managed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Beginning in 1992, ADS is a research tool that improves astronomical research, and is specifically tailored to astronomical needs.[1] The monetary benefit to astronomy that ADS contributes is equivalent to several hundred million in US dollars every year (2005).[2][3]

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) usage statistics can be used to analyze global trends in astronomical research due to it being used amongst astronomers worldwide. Those statistics revealed the direct correlation between both the number of astronomers and the amount of research an astronomer carries out and the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of the country from where the scientist is based.

  1. ^ Kurtz, M.J.; et al. (1993). "Intelligent Text Retrieval in the NASA Astrophysics Data System". Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems II. 52: 132. Bibcode:1993ASPC...52..132K.
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  3. ^ Kurtz, M.J.; Eichhorn G.; Accomazzi A.; Grant C.S.; Demleitner M.; Murray S.S. (2005). "Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56 (1): 36–45. arXiv:0909.4786. Bibcode:2005JASIS..56...36K. doi:10.1002/asi.20095. S2CID 15181632. (Preprint)

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