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SIMBAD bibliography content
One of the key features of the SIMBAD astronomical database
is the unique coverage of bibliographical references to objects.
The bibliographic index contains references to stars from
1950 onwards, and to galaxies and all other objects outside
the solar system from 1983 onwards. Presently there are
more than 3,200,000 references taken from over 110,000 papers
published in the 100 most important astronomical periodical
publications and conference proceedings.
Articles are scanned in their entirety, and references to
all objects mentioned are included in the bibliography.
The scanning of the literature was made possible through a
collaboration between the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris,
and the Paris, Bordeaux and Strasbourg
Observatories.
A code, called
bibcode
is assigned to each considered paper.
This 19-digit bibcode (Schmitz et al., 1995) contains
enough information to locate the article (including year
of publication, journal, volume, page, etc.). The structure
of this code has been defined in close collaboration with the
NED group at NASA/IPAC so that both databases apply the same
coding convention (as well as other information systems, such
as the NASA ADS, and some of the main journal editors).
This is described in
list of journals.
When one retrieves the bibliography of a SIMBAD object, a list
of bibcodes is given, and (according to the options used) these
codes are automatically resolved against a bibliographic file
which provides the full reference, title
and list of authors for each citation.
The link to all SIMBAD objects found in this references may be displayed if the
check is on in the form.
Also a link to
ADS services are available.
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