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)

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:

• 6580 new DOIs for the reference database of the two physics journals,
• 111 for Living Reviews in European Governance and
• 77 for Living Reviews in Landscape Research.

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.

LRLR is now listed by CAB International in CAB Abstracts. ISI Web of Knowledge also includes LRLR to those customers who cover CAB Abstracts by their ISI licence.

With today’s publication, the Living Reviews reference database contains more than 15,000 citations of resources in the field of relativity.

These references are carefully selected by our authors and collected from all articles published in Living Reviews in Relativity.

Cross-linked from the database to their point of reference in each article, and linked to available resources online, they provide a valuable tool for scientists.

A web interface to the database includes several search strategies. Various bibliographic export formats allow easy transfer to researchers’ own reference collections.

EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete database now indexes the full texts of Living Reviews in Relativity and Living Reviews in Solar Physics.

Thereby, these journals are also visible to ‘traditional’ literature research, as this service is available in many academic libraries.

In addition to web search engines, article metadata are also made available through databases and harvesters such as ADS, arXiv, OAIster, Scientific Commons, and others.

SPIRES-HEP, run by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), has included 15 Living Reviews in Relativity articles in its Guide to Review Literature in High-Energy Physics. The guide indexes by topic “review papers that have a significant number of citations in the SPIRES-HEP database”.

Moreover, four reviews published in LRR have made it to The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (2006 edition) in the gr-qc archive.

Another nice confirmation of the journal’s success!