[vsnet-chat 347] Relevant or crazy CV project ? - on SIMBAD

[Alon Retter <alon@wise.tau.ac.il>]

Hello,

I just want to note that, to my knowledge, the remarkable SIMBAD database
is not free of charge. A few of my colleages, who used it intensively a few
years age, got very high bills to pay.
If the situation has changed, please inform me.

Alon Retter
> 
>      In principle, the SIMBAD bibliographic database is supposed to perform
> this function.  However, in practice the biblio is not utterly complete
> especially for variable stars.  The folks who maintain SIMBAD are aware of this.
> Perhaps one thing that could be done is to provide citations to them
> suggesting that they be added to the database.
>      Also, the folks at Sonneberg Observatory maintain a comprehensive
> variable-star bibliography, which includes even very obscure materials.  
> I do not know the status of this database, but I recall reading that efforts
> were being made to make it available in machine-readable form.
> 
> \Brian
>

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