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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.

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.

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.

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.