Living Reviews http://blog.livingreviews.org Living Reviews Portal Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:21:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 en hourly 1 Living Reviews in Relativity welcomes new editor http://blog.livingreviews.org/living-reviews-in-relativity-welcomes-new-editor/ http://blog.livingreviews.org/living-reviews-in-relativity-welcomes-new-editor/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:21:08 +0000 Frank Schulz http://blog.livingreviews.org/?p=135 We are happy to welcome our new editor Mukund Rangamani from Durham University to the editorial board of Living Reviews in Relativity!  He is taking over the responsibilities for the field of  “String Theory and Gravitation” from Don Marolf, who will continue to be a member of the board.

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Living Reviews in Relativity second 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, has received its first impact factor of 10.600 in the 2009 Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson Reuters on June 17, 2010. The unique review journal ranks second in the category Physics, Particles & Fields.

Living Reviews were initiated by Max Planck director Bernard Schutz in 1998. The concept of ‘living’ articles is taking advantage of web-based electronic publishing, allowing authors to frequently incorporate the latest developments and research findings by updating their reviews. To ensure high-quality scientific content, all articles are subject to peer review and solicited by an international editorial board from experts in their fields.

Today, Living Reviews in Relativity maintains 68 topical reviews, which have been cited more than 4,800 times by other authors. The journal has become one of the first places scientists look for information about work in the fields of gravitational physics.  Its successful concept was adopted by other publications in various fields ranging from astronomy to political science. Currently, 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 the University of Zurich.

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

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The standard setup already provides easy integration of main components used by our pubBuilder module, TeX4Ht and TeX Live are available via apt-get, as are all other additional python packages (see Installation on Ubuntu 10.04).  A recent update of our  software to Python 2.6 made this possible and thus enhanced usability.

The ePubTk is a software package providing tools to help in publishing scientific content on the web.  Its main task is the management of a family of online journals such as Living Reviews, and the conversion of LaTeX based articles in various formats (HTML, PDF) and enrichment by standardized metadata and electronic features.

]]> http://blog.livingreviews.org/living-reviews-epubtk-software-on-ubuntu-10-04/feed/ 0 Living Reviews in Solar Physics is on Facebook http://blog.livingreviews.org/living-reviews-in-solar-physics-is-on-facebook/ http://blog.livingreviews.org/living-reviews-in-solar-physics-is-on-facebook/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:42:00 +0000 Frank Schulz http://blog.livingreviews.org/?p=118 Social networks like Facebook are used by scientists not only to share their private lives online, but also to spread news about their work and research interests. The journal Living Reviews in Solar Physics has joined Facebook to disseminate news about their latest publications and interact with its readers.

Become a fan of Living Reviews in Solar Physics at Facebook now to be notified about latest news from the journal!

]]> http://blog.livingreviews.org/living-reviews-in-solar-physics-is-on-facebook/feed/ 0 5 Years Living Reviews in Solar Physics http://blog.livingreviews.org/5-years-living-reviews-in-solar-physics/ http://blog.livingreviews.org/5-years-living-reviews-in-solar-physics/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:07:21 +0000 Frank Schulz http://blog.livingreviews.org/?p=114 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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Become a fan of Living Reviews in Relativity at Facebook now to be notified about latest news from the journal!

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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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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.

URL: http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/

]]> http://blog.livingreviews.org/new-hyperspaceaei-site-launched/feed/ 0 ERPA database adds Living Reviews in European Governance http://blog.livingreviews.org/erpa-database-adds-living-reviews-in-european-governance/ http://blog.livingreviews.org/erpa-database-adds-living-reviews-in-european-governance/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:28:36 +0000 Frank Schulz http://blog.livingreviews.org/?p=95 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.

]]> http://blog.livingreviews.org/erpa-database-adds-living-reviews-in-european-governance/feed/ 0 Many More DOIs http://blog.livingreviews.org/many-more-dois/ http://blog.livingreviews.org/many-more-dois/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:27:37 +0000 robert http://blog.livingreviews.org/?p=88 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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