Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System

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Virtually all papers in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and related areas are referenced by the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System, or ADS. It references not only the mainstream journals, but conference reports, theses, preprint servers, and even institutional technical reports, where they are made public. It includes links to the papers in all their published forms, so that, for astronomers with institutional access to the journals, this provides transparent access to the entire astronomical literature. Even authors who publish papers (such as this) in nonastronomical journals can request to have their paper listed by the ADS. Powerful facilities enable a search to be made by author, title, keyword, or even text contained within the paper. As a result, the ADS has probably become the primary entry point to the published literature for most astronomers.

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