It can be very confusing to track down a citation that looks like this:
arXiv:0809.3599v1 [astro-ph].
The arXiv is located at: http://arxiv.org/ and is a great online source of information. Paul Ginsparg started the repository for preprints in 1991. It was originally hosted at Los Alamos National Laboratory, but is now operated by Cornell University. It was THE original open access model, and is a crucial source for physics, astronomy, mathematics.
To find a paper in the arXiv:
If You Know the Archive and Paper Number
Archived submissions are each assigned a unique identifier of the form
yymm.nnnn (or arch-ive/yymmnnn for older submissions).
To retrieve the abstract page of a paper simply enter the identifier in
the "Search or Article-id" box in the top right of most pages.
You can also construct the URL (web address) for a paper with a
given identifier as
http://arxiv.org/abs/<identifier>. For example,
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603067
http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0123
From the abstract page you will be able to choose your preferred
format for downloading and viewing the paper.
If You Want to Search for it Via the Web Interface
Using the world wide web interface, you can search
for papers based on archive subject area, title, author,
or keywords in the full abstracts. You are encouraged
to try it out.
So, to find the paper at the beginning of this blog post, you would go to http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3599v1 Viola!
A Young Planet Search in Visible and IR Light: DN Tau, V836 Tau, and V827 Tau
Authors:
L. Prato,
M. Huerta,
C. M. Johns-Krull,
N. Mahmud,
D. T. Jaffe,
P. Hartigan
