The ADS have recently brought out a facility to query the archive for recently added papers (What's New Service). This provides the opportunity to search the last month's worth of journals for articles containing a set of keywords of particular interest to you. This way you can catch any papers which weren't posted on astro-ph (possibly due to the authors not being willing to put up with the arrogant attitude of the operators of that bulletin-board).
A Worked Example - The following example executes a query for all papers in ApJ, MNRAS, AJ, A&A or PASP (including ApJS/ApJL/A&AS, see here for more journals to search) which were added to ADS within the last month (31 days) and which have titles/abstracts mentioning galaxy clusters, lenses or high-redshift. The first 500 matches to the query are returned (although typically only 50-100 articles are found for these search criteria).
action=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect method=get return=raw sim_query=YES ttl_logic=BOOL title=(galaxy AND cluster NOT globular) OR (lens NOT micro) OR (high AND redshift) txt_logic=BOOL text=(galaxy AND cluster NOT globular) OR (lens NOT micro) OR (high AND redshift) nr_to_return=500 start_entry_day=-31 jou_pick=YES ref_stems=ApJ,MNRAS,AJ,A&A,PASP txt_syn=YES sort=ODATE endaction
Save the above in a text file called filename. Setting return=text (rather than raw) returns a formatted text file (instead of HTML) which is more easily readable but arguably more difficult to follow any interesting links.
This file can be automatically mailed to ADS each month using the crontab command on UNIX systems. The following command will let you edit your crontab file:
crontab -e
allowing you to add the following line to the crontab file:
0 0 1 * * mail adsquery@cfa.harvard.edu < filename > /dev/null
This will run once a month and send you a mail message containing the output of your ADS search. Assuming you requested method=raw then save the resulting mail file to your public_html directory and use netscape to view that file. All the links should work.
More Complicated Searches and Help - Sending the following text as an email to adsquery@cfa.harvard.edu will return a form containing all the available commands for searches of the ADS archive if you want to try more complicated searches:
action=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html method=get return=form
More information on searching ADS can be found here or by sending an email adsquery@cfa.harvard.edu containing the word help.
Acknowledgements - Thanks to Carolyn Stern Grant and the ADS people for providing an excellent facility. The LANL/astro-ph people could take some lessons from them on politeness...
Last Modified: January 21st, 1999. [Netscape 2.0]