Cooperative Community Opportunities and the ADS

Donna Thompson,Carolyn Grant,S Lesteven,B Kern,B Dorch,R D’Abrusco

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201818612014

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Abstract

The ADS is used daily by the astronomy community and benefits from the cooperative nature of our contributors. In this poster we will outline some of the ways that the library community can continue to contribute to this resource. As online publishing trends continue to evolve, conference proceedings and presentations, PhD theses and other digital artifacts are being deposited to research data repositories such as Zenodo or Dataverse. We will describe the process that ADS follows to include relevant collections from such repositories when properly curated by librarians or researchers. In addition, while most of what we receive is vetted before it gets to us, we sometimes find ourselves in the position of having to determine whether or not an article, proceeding or other submission is refereed. ADS has guidelines on how we determine this but sometimes the lines are not so clear and sometimes the arguments on both sides are compelling. The process that we follow will be outlined and we would appreciate feedback on this topic. Finally, given the expertise of librarians in their field and within their organization, the ADS encourages librarians to consider submitting curated institutional bibliographies for inclusion in the ADS.

Highlights

The ADS seeks to provide comprehensive, but not all-inclusive, coverage of the fields of astronomy and astrophysics
The ADS is used daily by the astronomy community and benefits from the cooperative nature of our contributors. In this poster we will outline some of the ways that the library community can continue to contribute to this resource
We download records from a select list of Zenodo collections on a weekly basis and welcome your suggestions for communities and topics to add to the content harvested by the ADS. These collections are typically contents of a conference proceeding which have been vetted by the organizer or other affiliated participant

Summary

Introduction

The ADS seeks to provide comprehensive, but not all-inclusive, coverage of the fields of astronomy and astrophysics. To this end we welcome contributions to our collection that we may have missed and value added curation from the library community. In this paper we will describe some of the issues that we routinely face and the content which we would welcome

Missing content

What we include

Institutional bibliographies

Conclusion