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Living Reviews links to SIMBAD database

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

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:

  • “Binary and Millisecond Pulsars” by Duncan R. Lorimer (lrr-2008-8)
  • “The Evolution of Compact Binary Star Systems” by Konstantin A. Postnov and Lev R. Yungelson (lrr-2006-6)
  • “Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing” by Ingrid H. Stairs (lrr-2003-5)

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Many More DOIs

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

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.

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New export format for references

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

We just added a new export format for our reference databases: TEI biblStruct elements.

This format is currently only available via the unAPI interface, but could easily be made available from the search results pages as well, as for the WALS references. Any opinions on that?

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Flash Movies in Living Reviews

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

A new article feature adds support for flash movies, a faster loading, platform independent format. Thus, a quick and easy movie preview can be added to the download of the original movie in mpeg, mov, avi, etc.

See, e.g., the review “Flare Observations” by Arnold O. Benz in Living Reviews in Solar Physics. (For an overview see List of Figures link at bottom of left panel.)

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