ADS 2.0 end of life
04 Jul 2016
Happy Independence Day! For those of you that didn’t know, today is also the day that we are decommissioning the ADS 2.0 interface. It will no longer be accessible via its old URL and we encourage people to move to...
Super Charge your ADS Searches with Filters
13 Jun 2016
The majority of queries in ADS are searches for authors. Author searches are simple when the author has a unique name, but what happens when the name is a common one? A search “Wu, J” might bring back a huge...
Open Access and NASA Astrophysics Data
16 Mar 2016
NASA Astrophysics is, and has always been, a leader in providing open access to scientific data. With small exceptions, all data from NASA missions are publically available. Indeed NASA has also been the leader in creating systems to make the...
Claiming Papers And Finding People with ORCID
10 Mar 2016
If you have published a paper recently, you have probably come across the acronym ORCID at some point during the article submission process. Or you may have seen references to ORCID in your organization’s scientific staff database, AAS membership profile,...
Wrecipe for Simple ADS Apps
17 Feb 2016
Underneath the new user interface of the ADS, ADS Beta (or Bumblebee), there is the rebuilt infrastructure of the ADS platform that serves the application layer of the ADS. At the start of last year, we made these services accessible...
Discovering "Long-Fuse" Papers – Physics Results
20 Nov 2015
I ended the previous blog with a list of “long-fuse” astronomy papers and I realized that, since I have similar results for physics papers too, why not show them here as well? So, that’s what this blog will be about....
Discovering "Long-Fuse" Papers - A First Exploration
17 Nov 2015
On average, articles get cited in a pretty predictable pattern. An article gets published, it takes a little while to get “absorbed” by the scientific community, and then, if it resonates, it starts getting citations. Something along the lines of...
ADS Bumblebee private libraries release
03 Nov 2015
We are happy to announce the first release of the private libraries in ADS Bumblebee, and are pleased to see that some people have already started using it. The private libraries allow you to maintain a collection of bibcodes within...
Calculating and Visualizing Publication and Citation Metrics with ADS Bumblebee
21 Oct 2015
For many scientists, it’s all about the numbers and when it comes to evaluating each other, it’s no different. Project managers and administrators also want to be able to evaluate the impact of programs or instruments. As a result, publication...
Updates on ADS Interfaces and the Announcement of Bumblebee
15 Jul 2015
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a tool for finding astronomy and planetary science publications. ADS currently has three different interfaces: ADS “Classic” – the one you all know and love, ADS “Labs” or “2.0” – the first interface to...