Guenther Eichhorn, The ultimate astronomical library, Astronomy Magazine, March 25, 2004. A detailed and enthusiastic review of NASA's open-access Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Excerpt: ADS "is a NASA-funded project that provides free World Wide Web abstract search services, as well as access to scanned articles of astronomical literature as far back as 1821, when the oldest astronomical journal, Astronomische Nachrichten, was first published....The ADS currently holds over 3.7 million references in four databases: Astronomy and Planetary Sciences (988,000); Physics and Geophysics (1.6 million); Space Instrumentation (707,000); and ArXiv Preprints (269,000). The Astronomy, Physics, and Instrumentation databases contain abstracts from hundreds of journals, publications, colloquia, symposia, proceedings, Ph.D. theses, and NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) reports. The Preprint database contains all preprints from the ArXiv Preprint server, to which many authors upload early versions of their scientific papers. Visitors may search all abstracts by author, title, or abstract words. In addition to the Abstract Service, ADS has scanned a large part of the astronomical literature. The ADS Article Service provides free access to scans of over 341,000 scientific papers published in astronomical journals, conference proceedings, newsletters, bulletins, and books, for a total of 2.6 million scanned pages."
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Peter Suber at 3/26/2004 10:56:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
