Thanks to crossref’s excellent OpenURL interface, we’ve been able to find quite a few DOIs for records in our reference databases which previously had none.

More precisely:

• 6580 new DOIs for the reference database of the two physics journals,
• 111 for Living Reviews in European Governance and
• 77 for Living Reviews in Landscape Research.

Using the Google Books API we also managed to add links to book previews for many of our reference records.

So if you know the journals but haven’t checked out the reference databases yet: they just got a little more useful.

Thomson Reuters has selected Living Reviews in Relativity for coverage in their information services. The journal is now indexed and abstracted in SCI, JCR and Current Contents. Thus, it will be listed with a Journal Impact Factor in the 2009 JCR edition, to be released in June 2010.

Prof. Dr. Eckart Marsch, head of the Solar Plasma group at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany — and editorial board member of Living Reviews in Solar Physics — has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The honor was presented at the AGU Joint Assembly in Toronto on May 26, 2009.

Shown are the results of an online user survey of Living Reviews in Relativity which was conducted from September 2008 to February 2009. The survey aimed to find out where readers come from, their professional background and their reading and download habits. The analysis is based on 80 completed questionnaires, 60 by readers with a scientific background, and 20 by non-scientists. The largest group of readers who took part in the survey came from Europe, the second largest from the United States, and third one from India. A very satisfactory result is that more than half visit Living Reviews in Relativity at least once a month.

Download the complete results in PDF.

The Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG) is a joint winner of the European Information Association’s 2009 Awards for European Information Sources.

The European Information Association (EIA) is a non-profit organisation with charitable status, registered in the United Kingdom. It serves as a focus of expertise on EU information.

The Awards highlight products that are considered to be excellent in the provision of EU information and recognise the Living Reviews in European Governance as the best of a large number of publications and online services. Previous winners include: Eurostat website, PreLex, Council of the EU website, Celex on the web, the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU’s Guide to EU Consumer Affairs.

This year’s winners of the Awards were formally announced on 11 May 2009 at the EIA annual meeting at the European Parliament office, London.

The prize will encourage us to follow up our endeavor to publish state-of-the-art review articles on core themes relating to European integration research, freely available on the internet!

Gerda Falkner (Editor-in-Chief)
Michael Nentwich (Technical Director)
and Patrick Scherhaufer (Managing Editor)

[press release in German]

Due to maintenance work, the Living Reviews server will be down from 8 May 2009, 8pm CET to 9 May 2009, 1am CET. All journals will be offline during these hours

We apologize for any inconvenience.

A short interview on the journal Living Reviews in Relativity with editor-in-chief Bernard Schutz has been published by Andreas Trunschke on his Weblog Forschung in Brandenburg.

Prof. Schutz explains the concept of a scientific review and highlights the advantage of regularly updated online articles for researchers. The interview (Nr. 19) is part of a blog post introducing the work of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute).

We would like to draw your attention to a new electronic journal on low-frequency gravitational waves science. In cooperation with the Digital Editions group of the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), GW Notes is published by the MPI for Gravitational Physics (AEI).

What:

The e-journal, GW Notes, has been born from the need for a journal where the distinct communities involved in gravitation wave research might gather. While these three communities – Astrophysics, General Relativity and Data Analysis – have made significant collaborative progress over recent years, we believe that it is indispensable to future advancement that they draw closer, and that they speak a common idiom.

Why:

The electronic publishing service arXiv is a dynamic, well-respected source of news of recent work and is updated daily. But, perhaps due to the large volume of new work submitted, it is probable that a member of our community might easily overlook relevant material. This new e-journal proposes to offer scientists of the Gravitational Wave community the opportunity to more easily follow advances in the three areas mentioned: Astrophysics, General Relativity and Data Analysis.

How:

We hope to achieve this by selecting the most significant e-prints and list them in abstract form with a link to the full paper in both a single e-journal (GW Notes) and a blog (LISA Brownbag).

Whenever you see an interesting paper on GW science and LISA, you can submit the arXiv number to our submission page:

http://brownbag.lisascience.org/

This is straightforward:
No registration is required (although recommended, see ahead) to simply type in the number in the entry field of the page, indicate some keywords and submit. Don’t expect it to be immediately displayed in the blog. The submission will be reviewed to check it suits the blog.

You can register here:

http://lists.aei.mpg.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lisa_brownbag

Note:

Of course, this also implies that the paper will have its impact increased, since it will reach a broader public, so that we encourage you to not forget submitting your own work.

In addition to the abstracts, in each PDF issue of GW Notes (released quarterly), we will offer you a previously unpublished article written by a senior researcher in one of these three domains, which addresses the interests of all readers:

http://brownbag.lisascience.org/lisa-gw-notes/

Bernard Schutz and Pau Amaro-Seoane
Editors

The Living Reviews in Democracy (LRD) is now online. It is a new member of the family of Living Reviews journals. One of the most important features of the LRD is that its articles are updated regularly by the authors; this is the significance of the word ‘living’ in the title. Web-based and peer-reviewed, the LRD publishes reviews of research on core themes relating to democracy. Articles are solicited by an international editorial board from scientists who are experts in their fields. They provide critical outlines of the state of the art in the subjects covered and offer annotated insights (and where possible, active links) into the key literature. The goal of the journal is to develop its articles into a carefully screened and edited, well-integrated, topical set of hypertext documents that, taken together, form a valuable research tool for scholars of democracy.

LRD is part of the global Open Access movement for free, immediate, and permanent online access to knowledge and research results. The journal is published by the Center for Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich in the framework of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research “Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century”. The Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Dr. Frank Schimmelfennig.

The concept of Living Reviews journals was developed by institutes of the Max Planck Society, which pioneered the Living Reviews in Relativity (LRR) and the Living Reviews in Solar Physics (LRSP). Living Reviews in Relativity has already been online for ten years and became one of the primary resources in gravitational physics. Since 2007, the Living Reviews in Landscape Research (LRLR) is published by the ZALF, an institute of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. The journal family is now affiliated with the Max Planck Digital Library, which provides technical infrastructure and software support.

LRD is the second Living Reviews journal in the social sciences, besides the recently launched Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG), which is published by the European Community Studies Association Austria.

Press release (PDF): en | de

A public lecture in the Living Reviews in Relativity Anniversary Lectures Series. We are celebrating our 10th year online with a number of colloquia by distinguished authors in the Berlin/Potsdam area.

Date:
March 11, 2009 - 14:00

Place:
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Lecture Hall, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm (map)

Abstract:
It is well known that the description of the non-gravitational interactions (electromagnetism, weak and strong nuclear forces) relies on finite-dimensional Lie groups and algebras (e.g., SU(3)X SU(2)X U(1)). Recently, it has been argued by many research teams that the description of the gravitational interaction should involve infinite-dimensional Lie algebras of hyperbolic Kac-Moody type, such as E(10). The talk will provide a brief, pedagogical introduction to these mathematical structures and present some of the evidence for their relevance to gravity.

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