Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2013

May 24th, 2013

Der Österreichische Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2013 widmet sich den aktuellen nationalen und internationalen forschungs- und technologiepolitischen Herausforderungen durch Analysen aktueller Entwicklungen und Trends und die Aufbereitung umfangreichen Datenmaterials zu Forschung und Entwicklung sowie zu speziellen Schwerpunktthemen.

Ein Thema, das national und international immer bedeutender wird, ist das Publizieren wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse im Internet (Open access). Es wird im Bericht umfassend präsentiert, die Vor- und Nachteile werden analysiert sowie unterschiedliche Strategien im Umgang mit Open Access vorgestellt. Im Abschnitt zur Entwicklung von Open Access Journals (OAJ) wird u.a. das Journal Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG) besonders hervorgehoben:

Was die Entwicklung von OAJ in Österreich betrifft, so wurden Ende 2012 insgesamt 40 OAJ publiziert, wobei zu den renommiertesten Journals vor allem Living Reviews in European Governance, European Integration online Papers, Myrmecological News oder Vienna Yearbook of Population Research zählen.

Living Reviews adds DOIs

April 11th, 2013

Living Reviews has currently registered Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) at CrossRef for all its articles published since 1998. DOIs are standardized identifiers that facilitate metadata exchange and provide persistent links to online resources. Many scholarly citation styles and bibliographic databases now rely on DOIs for unique identification.

You can find an article’s DOI at the top of its abstract page, in the PDF header, and when exporting the citation in BibTeX, EndNote, or RIS format.

Living Reviews joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)

March 5th, 2013

The Living Reviews journal family, published by the Max Planck Society in collaboration with partner institutes from other international research organizations, has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Since 2008, OASPA supports and represents the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. It provides a forum for information exchange, promotes standards and innovations in OA publishing, and advocates OA in scientific communication.

Living Reviews journals offer a unique service to various scientific communities since 1998, with some of the first full open access publications in physics, political sciences, and other fields of research. The concept of regularly updated review articles has proven successful, recognized by students, scholars, and not the least by high Journal Impact factors.

For more information on Living Reviews and OASPA see:

http://www.livingreviews.org/
http://oaspa.org/

Contact:
Frank Schulz
Managing Editor
EditorLR[AT]aei.mpg.de

Living Reviews in Democracy Award

December 8th, 2012

In October, the Board of the NCCR Doctoral Program granted the first Living Reviews in Democracy Award to NCCR PhD students Nils-Christian Bormann, Rinaldo Kühne, Antoinette Scherz, and Thomas Winzen. The prize recognizes the best articles published in the open access online-journal Living Reviews in Democracy (LRD), which publishes review articles that survey progress in democracy research and guide readers to the most important literature in the field. LRD articles are regularly updated by their authors to incorporate the latest developments on the theme.

The jury selected the award-winning articles particularly due to their completeness and originality:

Nils-Christian Bormann’s review summarizes the discussion of Lijphart’s typology of consensus and majoritarian democracies and challenges the typology’s usefulness for understanding democracies beyond the OECD world.

Rinaldo Kühne’s article focuses on the question of how the appeal to citizens’ emotions made by media coverage of political issues influences political opinions. It offers a review of the literature on the effects of mood, arousal, and emotions in judgment processes and analyzes if all affects, whether relevant to a judgment or not, have the same impact.

Questions on the legitimacy of the demos are the topic of Antoinette Scherz’s review. Democracy needs a clearly delimitated demos to be able to make decisions. But who are the people that constitute the demos? The article aims to clarify the legitimacy of the demos’s boundaries, a question that has gained considerable importance due to migration and globalization.

Thomas Winzen deals with the question of whether political integration challenges democracy by undermining the impact of national parliaments and parliamentary elections on policy making. The paper reviews the literature on the role of national parliaments in the European Union and observes that the question of how national parliaments relate to citizens in EU affairs is a rarely studied field.

[from NCCR Newsletter Dec. 2012]

Bala Iyer elected fellow of the American Physical Society

December 5th, 2012

Bala Iyer, Living Reviews in Relativity editorial board member and IndIGO chairperson, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

Professor Iyer, theoretical physicist at Raman Research Institute, is one of the pioneers in modeling the dynamics and gravitational waves from the inspiral of compact-object binaries (black holes and neutron stars) employing post-Newtonian theory. Searches for gravitational wave from inspiralling compact binaries (which are among the most promising astrophysical sources for the first detection of gravitational waves) crucially depend on the theoretical ‘templates’ of the expected signals, as computed by post-Newtonian theory and numerical relativity. Professor Iyer also played a leading role in building an active community of gravitational-wave physicists in India and is a key organizer of the proposed LIGO-India initiative.

APS is the world’s second largest organization of physicists, with more than 50,000 members. The APS citation to Bala Iyer reads: “For his important contributions to gravitational theory, in particular the post-Newtonian approximation and equations of motion, his outstanding leadership in creating the gravitational wave community in India through the IndIGO consortium, and his key role in the LIGO-India initiative”.

[http://gw-indigo.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=44]

Living Reviews in European Governance neu an der Universität Wien

October 18th, 2012

Fachzeitschriften “European Integration online Papers” und “Living Reviews in European Governance” neu an der Uni Wien

Open Access ist wichtiges Instrument in der Wissenschaft

Wien (OTS) – Open Access bedeutet, dass wissenschaftliche Texte kostenfrei und öffentlich im Internet zugänglich sind. Sie können dann unter Angabe des Copyrights frei heruntergeladen, kopiert und weiterverbreitet werden. Auch die Universität Wien fördert Open Access Projekte und der Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) will künftig in Kooperation mit dem Wissenschaftsministerium sogar eine Anschubfinanzierung zur Etablierung innovativer Open Access Fachzeitschriften leisten.

Das Institut für europäische Integrationsforschung (EIF) engagiert sich schon seit Jahren mit zwei englischsprachigen Journals besonders stark in diesem Bereich, seit kurzem im Rahmen der Universität Wien. Die “European Integration online Papers (EIoP)”, die sogar in den Social Science Citation Index aufgenommen wurden und damit unter den
weltweit anerkanntesten wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften rangieren, positionieren sich als interdisziplinäres Journal. Die “Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG)” sind ein besonders innovatives Projekt, denn darin diskutieren streng qualitätsgeprüfte Überblicksartikel den State-of-the-art zu einschlägigen Forschungsfragen. Dr. Falk Reckling, Open-Access-Experte des Wissenschaftsfonds, nennt LREG im Bereich Open Access Fachzeitschriften “sehr renommiert”. “Diese Zeitschriften-Kooperation
mit der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ist ein wichtiges Angebot des EIF im Dienste der weltweiten Scientific Community, besonders für Studierende und Forschende, die sich in einen neuen Expertisebereich einarbeiten wollen”, so Prof. Gerda Falkner, Leiterin des EIF.

European Integration online Papers (EIoP):
http://eiop.or.at/eiop/index.php/eiop

Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG):
http://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org

Open Access Success Stories: Living Reviews

October 1st, 2012

New stories added to the website www.oastories.org

Open access – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research – can transform scholarship and its impact. Last year, in Open Access Week 2011, Knowledge Exchange launched a new website to demonstrate this transformation in action, www.oastories.org. The site features compelling open access success stories from across Europe told by a wide variety of stakeholders from individual researchers and journal editors to publishers and companies and cover a multitude of disciplines. All demonstrate the benefits of open access, sometimes in quite unexpected ways.

Those initial stories were just the start of the project and the website is growing to encompass more tales of open access success. The latest batch of stories are now online. They include a young Italian open access cancer journal that has expanded into other forms of media to change the way that cancer research is accessed globally; a Norwegian Polar journal that has successfully moved from a subscription model to open access for competitive advantage; and two longstanding German ‘families’ of journals – Living Reviews and GIGA.

More stories will follow for Open Access Week 2012, which runs from October 22-28.

[source: Knowledge Exchange]

High Impact Factors for MPG Open Access Journals

June 29th, 2012

High Impact Factors for MPG Open Access Journals

Living Reviews physics journals top their categories

The open access physics journal Living Reviews in Relativity, published by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, again leads the category Physics, Particles & Fields in the 2011 Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson Reuters on June 29, 2012. The unique review journal received an impact factor of 17.462, thus improving last year’s performance and rising to #54 in JCR’s complete list of about 8000 indexed journals.

Living Reviews in Solar Physics, published by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, has just received its very first impact factor (12.500).  The journal thus ranks among the top three in the category Astronomy & Astrophysics, after it was included in the Science Citation Index (SCI) only in 2011. With an impressive #103 in the complete list, the ‘newcomer’ barely missed JCR’s Top 100.

Living Reviews in Solar Physics was the second publication in the family of review journals initiated by Max Planck director Bernard Schutz. The concept of ‘living’ articles takes advantage of web-based electronic publishing, allowing authors to frequently incorporate the latest developments and research findings by updating their reviews. To ensure high-quality scientific content, all articles are subject to peer review and solicited by an international editorial board from expert scientists.

The journals have become one of the first places researchers look for information about work in their fields.  The successful concept was adopted by other publications in various fields ranging from astronomy to political science. Currently, five Living Reviews journals are published by partners from the Max Planck Society, the European Community Studies Association Austria, the Leibniz Association, and the ETH and the University of Zurich.

The Journal Impact Factor is one of the most widely used tools for assessing scientific journals. It allows users to objectively evaluate a journal’s performance and its influence on research globally. The impact factor of a journal is the average number of citations to those papers that were published during the two preceding years.

Pressemitteilung als PDF [445 KB]

Press Release as PDF [432 KB]

New IALE home page features Living Reviews in Landscape Research

June 7th, 2012

The International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) has completely relaunched their website in May 2010. Among others, Living Reviews in Landscape Research is now prominently featured at the new home page as a journal with a special link to IALE.

The International Association for Landscape Ecology aims to develop landscape ecology as the scientific basis for the analysis, planning and management of the landscapes of the world. IALE advances international co-operation and interdisciplinary synergism within the field, through scientific, scholarly, educational and communication activities. IALE provides an infrastructure as a world wide organisation of landscape ecologists, which serves as a discussion platform and stimulates interaction across the disciplines.

IALE president Felix Kienast (ETHZ/WSL) is also a member of Living Reviews in Landscape Research’s editorial board.

Job offer: Software developer

March 26th, 2012

We are looking for a software developer for our scientific online journals Living Reviews. This is a fixed-term position for initially 2 years.

See full posting (in German) in PDF or HTML.

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Software-Entwickler/-in

Stellenangebot vom 15. März 2012

Die Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) ist eine zentrale wissenschaftliche Serviceeinheit der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft mit Verantwortung für die strategischen Planungen, die Entwicklung und den Betrieb der elektronischen Infrastrukturen zur Versorgung der Institute mit wissenschaftlicher Information und zur Unterstützung von webbasierter wissenschaftlicher Kommunikation. Ab sofort suchen wir für unsere wissenschaftlichen Online-Zeitschriften Living Reviews eine/-n Softwareentwickler/-in.

Der Tätigkeitsbereich:

Living Reviews sind wissenschaftliche Open Access Zeitschriften für Übersichtsartikel, die aufschlussreiche Bestandsaufnahmen bieten über den Forschungsstand in den jeweiligen Gebieten und den Leser zur wichtigsten Literatur auf diesem Gebiet führen.

Ihr einzigartiges Konzept erlaubt es Autoren, ihre Artikel regelmäßig zu aktualisieren um die neuesten Entwicklungen miteinzubeziehen. Living Reviews sind ausschließlich online verfügbar, angereichert mit Web-Features wie Filme, herunterladbarer Quellcode oder Querverweise zu anderen Ressourcen.

Ihre Aufgaben:

  • Betreuung und Pflege der vorhandenen Softwarelandschaft
  • Weiterentwicklung und Dokumentation der Software
  • Entwicklung von Tools zur Automatisierung von Arbeitsabläufen und zum Monitoring
  • Organisation und Kommunikation der Maßnahmen

Ihr Profil:

  • Abgeschlossenes informationstechnisches Studium oder vergleichbare Ausbildung
  • Sehr gute Kenntnisse und möglichst Berufserfahrung im Bereich der Softwareentwicklung mit Python
  • Erfahrung in der Administration von Linux-Systemen
  • Kenntnisse im Bereich Softwaretests und Qualitätssicherung
  • Erfahrungen im Umgang mit XML
  • Technische Grundlagen von LATEX
  • Vertiefte Kenntnisse aktueller Web- und Internet-Technologien
  • Ausgeprägtes Interesse an der Einarbeitung in neue Themengebiete
  • Sorgfältiger, strukturierter und selbstständiger Arbeitsstil
  • Gute Englisch-Kenntnisse in Wort und Schrift
  • Projektmanagement-Kenntnisse wären von Vorteil.

Unser Angebot:

Die Stelle ist zunächst auf 2 Jahre befristet. Wir bieten einen modern ausgestatteten Arbeitsplatz, der mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln gut zu erreichen ist. Die Vergütung richtet sich je nach Qualifikation und Erfahrung bis Entgeltgruppe 13 des Tarifvertrages für den öffentlichen Dienst (TVöD-Bund). Die Sozialleistungen entsprechen den Regelungen des öffentlichen Dienstes.

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