As part of NASA’s Open Source Science Initiative, the NASA Astrophysics
Data System (ADS) is extending its database to cover all research funded by
the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) divisions. The ADS was selected
to lead this effort based on its decade-long, groundbreaking efforts in
supporting the goals of Open Science for the Astronomy and Astrophysics
community. The expansion plan, which has now begun in earnest, involves the
creation of a literature-based, open digital information system covering
and unifying the fields of Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Heliophysics,
and Earth Science. It will also cover NASA funded research in Biological
and Physical Sciences. Codenamed NASA Science Explorer, or SciX for short,
it will extend ADS to become a permanent major component in the
infrastructure of scientific research, providing important contributions
towards the goal of open science. In this presentation, Dr. Accomazzi will
discuss the features of the new system, highlighting how they extend the
functionality currently available in ADS to better support
interdisciplinary research.
