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

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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 L^AT_EX
• 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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Living Reviews has recently enhanced its journals by adding new abstract pages, which provide easier access to various article formats, downloads, and all related information (example page).

Moreover, we have added new article metadata to all our publications. Invisible to readers, but accessible to search engines and bibliographic tools, such as Google Scholar and Mendeley, these data help to improve automatic search results and bibliography management:

    <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
    <title>Characteristic Evolution and Matching</title>
    <meta content="Characteristic Evolution and Matching" name="dc.title">
    <meta content="Jeffrey Winicour" name="dc.creator">
    <meta content="2012" name="dc.date">
    <meta content="Living Rev. Relativity" name="dc.source">
    <meta content="15" name="dc.source.volume">
    <meta content="lrr-2012-2" name="dc.identifier">
    <meta content="text/html" name="dc.format">
    <meta content="Characteristic Evolution and Matching" name="eprints.title">
    <meta content="Jeffrey Winicour" name="eprints.creators_name">
    <meta content="2012" name="eprints.date">
    <meta content="article" name="eprints.type">
    <meta content="Living Rev. Relativity" name="eprints.publication">
    <meta content="15" name="eprints.volume">
    <meta content="Living Rev. Relativity" name="citation_journal_title">
    <meta content="Jeffrey Winicour" name="citation_authors">
    <meta content="Characteristic Evolution and Matching" name="citation_title">
    <meta content="2012" name="citation_date">
    <meta content="15" name="citation_volume">

The journal’s table of contents, listing publications by volume or subject, has also be redesigned for improved clarity and ease of use.

Bernard Schutz, editor in chief of Living Reviews in Relativity and director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), took the opportunity and submitted his response to the RFI “Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research”.

Read his personal perspective that “combines several points of view: a research performer, an organizer and evaluator of scientific research, and an open-access publisher” at the OSTP’s “Public Comments” page (#276) or directly download the PDF.

Recently, Prof. Schutz gave a related presentation at the APE 2012 conference in Berlin. Watch the video online: “Enabling the Transition of Existing Journals to Open Access”.

We are happy to welcome our new editor Hugh Hudson from the University of California, Berkeley, to the editorial board of Living Reviews in Solar Physics!

Dr. Hugh Hudson is a senior research scientist at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory with extensive experience in solar X-ray observations and solar irradiance variability in particular. In addition to his ongoing research in CMEs, he is involved with RHESSI data analysis, keeping a special eye on the question of coronal and solar-wind field connectivity as characterized by high-energy particles.

Articles and other publications referencing our journal project have been compiled on the new page Media Coverage, available from the left navigation bar. Readers can follow the acknowledgement and impact of the Living Reviews idea over the last 14 years, embedded in the ongoing discussion on new models of scholarly communication.

All press releases issued by the project are available from this page as well.

MPG Open Access Journal ranks best in its category

The open access physics journal Living Reviews in Relativity, published by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, leads the category Physics, Particles & Fields in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson Reuters on June 29, 2011. The unique review journal received an impact factor of 12.625, thus improving last year’s performance and rising to #95 in JCR’s complete list of almost 8000 indexed journals.

In March 2011, Living Reviews in Relativity has published its 100th review article in the field of relativity and gravitational physics. The journal currently maintains 72 articles on various topics, which are regularly updated by their authors to incorporate the latest developments and research findings.

Living Reviews‘ successful concept was adopted by other publications in other fields ranging from astronomy to political science. To date, five Living Reviews journals are published by partners from the Max Planck Society, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and ECSA, the Leibniz Association, and the ETH and University of Zurich.

The second journal of the family, Living Reviews in Solar Physics, was just included in Thomson Reuters‘ JCR and SCI in April 2011, therefore missing the deadline for the 2010 Journal Citation Reports by only a few days. However, it would have had received an impressive first impact factor of about 11, ranking 4th in the category Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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

Living Reviews in Solar Physics has been accepted for coverage in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index (SCI), beginning with volume 5 (2008). The journal will be indexed and abstracted in SCI, JCR and Current Contents. Living Reviews in Solar Physics, an open access review journal published by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, is thus eligible for the Journal Impact Factor, which is seen to be a widely accepted indicator of a journal’s significance within its field.

P.S.: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/forum/2011/201106/journallist/

With todays new review article on “Varying Constants, Gravitation and Cosmology” by Jean-Philippe Uzan, Living Reviews in Relativity offers 100 review articles on 72 different topics in in various areas of relativity. All full texts are free of charge, following the principles of the Open Access to Scientific Knowledge movement. The journal’s reference database now contains about 20,000 references which are linked to the reviews and can be exported in various formats.

The success of Living Reviews in Relativity has been acknowledged by its high Impact Factor (10.600), and just recently by SPIRES including 10 reviews in the Top Cited Articles during 2010 in gr-qc. Overall, nine articles made it to the list of the 100 most highly cited papers of all time.

We’d like to thank all our readers and authors for their interest and support!

The Living Reviews team.

10 articles from Living Reviews in Relativity are included in SPIRES’ Top Cited Articles during 2010 in gr-qc, listing the 100 most highly cited papers during 2010 in the gr-qc e-print arXiv. Overall, nine articles made it to the list of the 100 most highly cited papers of all time.

The review of “f(R) Theories” by Antonio De Felice and Shinji Tsujikawa came in fourth with already more than 100 citations by December 2010.

Living Reviews is a green publisher, i.e. allows self-archiving of pre- and postprints, which also improves the visibility of our articles online.

In der Rubrik Thema des Monats stellt das Büro für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit regelmäßig aktuelle Forschung an der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) rund um ein Schwerpunktthema vor. Das Thema des Monats November 2010 ist Europäisierung. Ein Beitrag stellt die innovative Fachzeitschrift “Living Reviews in European Governance” vor:

Die Forschung zur europäischen Integration gehört zu den sich derzeit rasant entwickelnden Wissenschaftsfeldern. Mit den “Living Reviews in European Governance” gibt das EIF eine in den Sozialwissenschaften bahnbrechende Fachzeitschrift heraus, die dieser Entwicklung gerecht werden soll.

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