Journal History

Living Reviews: 10 Years Online!

Living Reviews Anniversary Lectures: read more here
January 26: 10th anniversary ... and we're going on! (press release)
List of top cited reviews and top cited references for Living Reviews in Relativity online
March 13: first Living Reviews 'family' meeting in Berlin

January: Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management in the Max Planck Society as host of the Living Reviews Publishing Platform merged into the newly founded Max Planck Digital Library
February: four LRR articles included in "Top Cited Articles of All Time" list by SPIRES (gr-qc archive)
June 25: Living Reviews in Landscape Research publishes its first three articles (press release)
July: presentation of the Living Reviews project at the PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007 in Vancouver, Canada
500 subscribers to lr_sub newsletter
more than 2,550 citations to LRR articles in peer-reviewed journals (analysis in ISI Science Citation Index)

March: Living Reviews and DiPP host workshop "Services for Open Access Publishing" at Berlin4 conference
June: a paper by Dalchow/Nentwich/Scherhaufer/Weyher on "Living Reviews: Innovative Resources for Scholarly Communication Bridging Diverse Spheres of Disciplines and Organisational Structures" is presented at ELPUB 2006: 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing in Bansko, Bulgaria
Release of the Living Reviews Editorial Information Management System (EIMS), developed by Robert Forkel
November 9: Living Reviews in European Governance publishes its first three articles in political science

the "fast-track revision" is introduced, thus speeding up the update cycle of an article (see e.g. lrr-2004-4)
new Living Reviews reference database now contains 10,500 entries linked back to their citing reviews

Don Marolf and Jorge Pullin join the Editorial Board
journal promotion at GR 17 in Dublin, Ireland
July 29: launch of first sister journal Living Reviews in Solar Physics, with first two articles
more than 50 reviews online!

5 years online! (press release)
more than 450 citations to LRR articles in peer-reviewed journals (analysis in ISI Science Citation Index)
Living Reviews shortlisted for ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation
pubBuilder component of Living Reviews ePublishing Toolkit (ePubTk) in production
October 20: "The future role of prestigious print journals: a physicist's point of view", presentation by Bernard Schutz at Open Access Berlin 2003

Living Reviews (Schutz, Velden, Weyher) sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
Frank Schulz joins the team as editorial assistant
Elaine Tietjen helps with copy editing and proof reading
Romeo Anghelache starts as research programmer for MoWGLI project
begin of Living Reviews BackOffice collaboration with the Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management within the Max Planck Society (ZIM) to provide infrastructure for further journals
October: LRR has been granted recognised journal status by the European Physical Society (EPS)

Robert Beig and Joachim Wambsganss join the editorial board, Gary Horowitz resigns from the editorial board
Jan-July: Rachel Clements (student assistant) supports the team
article by Markus Pössel presents concept of "Living Reviews", Spektrum der Wissenschaft, März 2001
journal promotion at GR 16, Durban, South Africa
Living Reviews joins the EU MoWGLI project proposal

Gary Horowitz and Jürgen Renn join the editorial board
January: Vera Osswald (editorial assistant) and Ian Kelley (programmer) join the team
journal promotion at various physics conferences, i.a., KipFest, MG 9, LISA 3, Texas Symposium
July: the 16 published reviews have been cited more than 100 times in peer reviewed articles
September: LRR serves an average of 25,000 page requests per month

LRR Editorial Board: Bernd Brügmann, Chris Isham, Bala Iyer, Renate Loll, Bernd Schmidt, Bernard Schutz, Ed Seidel, Clifford Will
Andreas Wilde, diploma student at the FH Brandenburg, develops LR's first editorial database
Harald Dimmelmeier joins as an editorial assistant
May: lr_sub mailing list has already 200 subscribers

January 26: Living Reviews in Relativity published its first four reviews (press release)
April: presentation at the Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Workshop in Santa Barbara, USA
Gabrielle Allen leads the technical advisory team of Living Reviews (1998-2000)
Jennifer Wheary is succeeded by new managing editor Theresa Velden
December: a paper by Wheary/Wild/Schutz/Weyher explores how the journal has evolved: "Thinking and Developing Electronically", Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP), 1998, 4(2)
volume 1 contains 13 review articles

more than 20 invited authors agreed to write and maintain a 'living' review
September: a paper by Wheary/Schutz introduces the journal's concept: "Making an Electronic Journal Live", Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP), 1997, 3(1)
Christina Weyher joins as editorial assistant

August 12: 1st meeting on purpose/potential of journal
October: a sample article by Bernard Schutz is presented
November 28: 1st Editorial Board Meeting (Brügmann, Schmidt, Schutz, Seidel, Wheary)

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) founded