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The journal Living Reviews in Solar Physics happily celebrates its 5th anniversary in 2009! We would like to thank our readers and authors for their interest and support.
On 14 December 2009, we have published an update of the review “Magnetic Fields in the Solar Convection Zone” by Yuhong Fan.
This publication perfectly demonstrates the concept of our ‘living’ reviews: The original article of 2004 was revised in February 2007 by adding a few recent studies and results. Now, a major revision updates this review by adding 55 references, new figures and movies, and substantially rewritten sections.
The Living Reviews Reference Database currently contains metadata from more than 5,400 records cited in our articles.
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Living Reviews in Relativity has introduced a new LaTeX macro that allows authors to link their articles to an identifier query in the SIMBAD Astronomical Database. SIMBAD provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system. It currently contains information about more than 4.6 million objects with 235,000 bibliographical references.
Sample LRR articles linking to SIMBAD:
Hyperspace@aei has been designed and developed to increase the exchange of information and foster the interaction among scientists working in general relativity and gravitation. It replaces the QMUL hyperspace service, which has been maintained for 20 years by Malcolm MacCallum. The new site is edited by Luciano Rezzolla with support from the Max Planck Digital Library, the Living Reviews team, and it is hosted at the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) in Germany. This site is also sponsored by the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, (ISGRG).
Hyperspace@aei provides the opportunity to post announcements about conferences, job opportunities, and general news. All of this information can be easily accessed on the site and is collected in the form of a bulletin which is sent to the hyperspace mailing list (which replaces MacCallum’s GRG list) at the beginning of each month. In addition, the information in the bulletin is also stored in calendars and RSS feeds which can be browsed on the site but also imported for private use.
On 10 July 2009, the European Research Papers Archive (ERPA) network added Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG) to their database.
ERPA is a continuously updated reference for online working papers in the field of European integration research since 1998. Today, it contains over 1330 top research papers.
Its powerful search-engine allows searches for authors, paper titles, publication dates, keywords, full text, or any combination of these. Furthermore, “Quick Search” updates you on the latest entries in the ERPA database. Also abstracts are available for many papers.
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:
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.