Living Reviews in Relativity
'Living Reviews' is a unique editorial concept for the publication of high-quality scientific content. Living Reviews journals are publishing 'living' review articles on the World Wide Web. What does this mean?
'Living' review articles are
- as the name suggests, review articles, providing insightful surveys on research progress in the fields they cover and guiding readers to the most important literature in the field
- solicited from experts in the field by an international Editorial Board
- subject to strict peer-review
- and, most important, 'living' which means that the articles are regularly being updated by their authors to incorporate the latest developments in the field.
The concept of a 'living' review is originated by Bernard F. Schutz and Jennifer Wheary, who started the first journal, Living Reviews in Relativity, in 1998 at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.
In 2001 a cooperation project with the Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management was started, to facilitate the foundation of Living Reviews journals in other areas of research. Meanwhile three Living Reviews journals are established, and further journals are in negotiation.
Living Reviews journals provide online open access to high-quality scientific content. Further services are available, like an online searchable database for all references cited in Living Reviews articles.
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