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In addition to the abstracts, in each PDF issue of GW Notes (released quarterly), we will offer you a previously unpublished article written by a senior researcher in one of these three domains, which addresses the interests of all readers: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

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