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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:53:27 -0500

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have
jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus called the
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) to the American Astronomical Society
(AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for
researchers.

The AAS will make the UAT freely available for development and use
within the astronomy community, while ensuring the thesaurus remains
relevant and useful.  Further development of the UAT will be
undertaken by the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics in collaboration with the Astrophysics Data
System (ADS) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA)
to enhance and extend the thesaurus to ensure that it continues to
meet the needs of the astronomy community.

Adoption of the thesaurus within the ADS will result in better linking
with the majority of astronomy research journal articles through a
common vocabulary, thereby greatly improving the accuracy of
information discovery.

The work to combine the thesauri has been carried out by Access
Innovations, Inc., a privately held company that specializes in
information management and database creation products and services.
For details on this endeavor, please view the press release.

Sincerely,
Sharice
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Sharice P. Collins
Vice President, Marketing
IOP Publishing, Inc.
150 South Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA  19106
ioppublishing.org

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