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.
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)
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
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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).