astrophysics data system
Historic Observatory Publications in the Science Explorer
04 Jun 2024
Historic Observatory Publications Through the mid-20th century, many observatories had their own outlets for disseminating their research and administrative information. Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, Annals of the Private Observatory of Lucien Libert, Bulletin Horaire du...
Announcing Our New SciX Lead Ambassadors
03 May 2024
Announcing Our New SciX Lead Ambassadors Welcome to an exciting milestone in the SciX Ambassador Program! We’re thrilled to introduce our newly selected SciX Lead Ambassadors for the 2024-2026 and 2025-2027 cohorts. These exceptional individuals will spearhead community engagement and...
Introducing the Science Explorer Ambassador Program
06 Mar 2024
Introducing the Science Explorer Ambassador Program The Science Explorer (SciX) team is thrilled to announce the launch of the SciX Ambassador Program! This initiative marks a new chapter in the evolution of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) into SciX, with...
Informed Transformation: User Feedback’s Role in the ADS to SciX Transition
26 Feb 2024
The virtual gathering of the Astrophysics Data System Users Group (ADSUG) on 16-17 November served as a pivotal moment in our ongoing transition from the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) to the Science Explorer (SciX). A crucial precursor to this meeting...
Join ADS/Science Explorer (SciX) at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Conference
03 Jan 2024
Join us at the 243rd American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting from 7-11 January 2024 in New Orleans, LA for an insightful exploration of the Science Explorer (SciX) and the implications of its recent launch for the ADS user community. The...
Join us at the AGU Fall Meeting for the Science Explorer (SciX) Launch
06 Dec 2023
The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting is taking place next week (11-15 December) in San Francisco. Join the ADS team as we unveil the much-anticipated Science Explorer (SciX). We will showcase SciX throughout the meeting; here’s a detailed breakdown of...
Announcing the Science Explorer
19 Apr 2023
Did you know that 2023 is the year of Open Science in the United States, and that NASA is leading the effort with its Open-Source Science Initiative (OSSI)? The initiative aims to make publicly funded scientific research transparent, inclusive, accessible,...
Introducing ADS’s OpenAPI Description and Documentation
04 Aug 2021
ADS’s API, or application programming interface, is the service that accepts requests and returns the requested information. For example, when a user searches in ADS, the website sends a search request to the API, which performs the search and returns...
Introducing the New myADS
10 Aug 2020
Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma is an astrophysicist and the Software Development & Operations Lead for the Astrophysics Data System, based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is pleased to introduce the new myADS email notification system! It...
Updates to ADS: myADS Notifications, Library Collaborators, and More
29 May 2020
A number of changes have come to ADS over the past few months, some of which you may have missed. Read on for an overview of some of the bigger updates to the site. If you want to stay up...
A Final Farewell to ADS Classic
28 Oct 2019
ADS Classic is officially retiring on October 31, 2019 after more than 25 years in service. Its replacement, the new ADS, has been in the works for a decade, with the current iteration, originally codenamed Bumblebee, in development since 2015....
Ave Atque Vale: ADS Classic (1992-2019)
30 May 2019
ADS Classic, a pioneer of the Information Age, died at 3:19 pm EDT on 30 May 2019 after a long period on life support. Perhaps the last of its generation to succumb to the infirmities of age, Classic is survived...
A Reminder About Transitioning to the New ADS
11 Apr 2019
Update (September 11, 2019) This post has been updated with the latest schedule. Some links have been updated. Update (May 29, 2019) This post has been updated to reflect that the library set operations and the “perform actions on selected...
Updates to the new ADS: Affiliations, Software Citations and More
13 Feb 2019
We’ve rolled out a number of changes to the new ADS over the summer and fall, some of which you’ve likely noticed and others which may have passed you by. Read on for a summary of some of the bigger...
The New ADS Loses Its Beta Label
24 May 2018
Update (April 12, 2019) Classic’s retirement timeline has been adjusted slightly. We plan to begin disabling searching in Classic in May 2019, with full site retirement slated for Q3 2019. For more on steps to take before that time, see...
Classic ADS and the New ADS: A Look Under the Hood
24 May 2018
In this post, we’d like to give you a peek under the hood of both ADS Classic and the new ADS service. ADS Classic ADS Classic went online on the nascent World Wide Web in 1994. In the early 1990s,...
Bumblebee Updates: Metadata-Only Searches and More
11 Apr 2018
We’ve released a major update to the new ADS Bumblebee interface this week! Some changes, such as the inclusion of a wider range of export formats, incorporate functionality from ADS Classic, while others improve the user’s site experience. Read on...
ADS Bumblebee: What to Look Forward to in 2018
02 Jan 2018
ADS Beta, codenamed Bumblebee, is nearing parity with ADS Classic! The ADS development team has been working on Bumblebee since 2015, an outgrowth of earlier efforts (ADS Labs, ADS 2.0) to modernize the look and capabilities of ADS. While Classic...
ADS Welcomes Its Users Group for Their Second Annual Meeting
12 Dec 2017
The ADS team was pleased to welcome our Users Group (ADSUG) to our home base here at the CfA for their second visit on 2-3 November. The ADSUG meets roughly once per year to hear about the status of ongoing...
ADS Indexes Its 100,000,000th Citation
05 Oct 2017
108 Citations and Counting! The ADS has reached its 100,000,000th citation! We hit this milestone the last week of September during our daily paper ingest. The 108 citation occurred during a batch ingest of papers that generated over a million...
ADS Classic Downtime
12 Apr 2017
ADS Unavalable on April 13, 2017 The main ADS site at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), http://adsabs.harvard.edu, will be shutdown on April 13 at 4pm EDT and will remain unavailable till approximately 11pm due to scheduled maintenance of the...
Become an ADS Power User!
26 Jan 2017
A recording of a tutorial given at the Center for Astrophysics on using the new ADS interface is now available. Hope you enjoy it! Recording of the tutorial (1h 8m) Slides of the presentation Topics covered in this tutorial include:...
The ADS Guide to the 229th AAS Meeting
30 Dec 2016
The ADS Guide to the 229th AAS Meeting The ADS team will be staffing booth 711 in the Exhibit area of the Gaylor Convention Center in Grapevine, TX for the duration of the AAS meeting (Jan 3-6, 2017). Stop by...
We're hiring!
19 Sep 2016
Update (April 25, 2017) All positions are now closed. Thanks to those who applied! Update (Jan 1, 2017) The positions have been reopened, and we will be accepting applications through the end of March, although hiring decisions may be taken...
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...
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,...
ADS Bumblebee libraries release
03 Nov 2015
We are happy to announce the first release of the ADS libraries in Bumblebee, and are pleased to see that some people have already started using it. The ADS libraries allow you to maintain a collection of bibcodes within your...