Eight years after the ADS first appeared the last decadal survey wrote: "NASA's initiative for the Astrophysics Data System has vastly increased the accessibility of the scientific literature for astronomers. NASA deserves credit for this valuable initiative and is urged to continue it." Here we summarize some of the changes concerning the ADS which have occurred in the past ten years, and we describe the current status of the ADS. We then point out two areas where the ADS is building an improved capability which could benefit from a policy statement of support in the ASTRO2010 report. These are: The Semantic Interlinking of Astronomy Observations and Datasets and The Indexing of the Full Text of Astronomy Research Publications.
@article{arxiv.0903.3228,
title = {The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Decennial Report},
author = {Michael J. Kurtz and Alberto Accomazzi and Stephen S. Murray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3228},
year = {2009}
}
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6 pages, whitepaper submitted to the National Research Council Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey