[BOAI] Living Reviews in Democracy now online

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Living Reviews BackOffice at 
the Max Planck Institute.  --Peter Suber.]


Living Reviews in Democracy (LRD) ­
a new open access journal in political science

The Living Reviews in Democracy (LRD) is now 
online. It is a new member of the family of 
Living Reviews journals. One of the most 
important features of the LRD is that its 
articles are updated regularly by the authors; 
this is the significance of the word 'living' in 
the title. Web-based and peer-reviewed, the LRD 
publishes reviews of research on core themes 
relating to democracy. Articles are solicited by 
an international editorial board from scientists 
who are experts in their fields. They provide 
critical outlines of the state of the art in the 
subjects covered and offer annotated insights 
(and where possible, active links) into the key 
literature. The goal of the journal is to develop 
its articles into a carefully screened and 
edited, well-integrated, topical set of hypertext 
documents that, taken together, form a valuable 
research tool for scholars of democracy.

LRD is part of the global Open Access movement 
for free, immediate, and permanent online access 
to knowledge and research results. The journal is 
published by the Center for Comparative and 
International Studies at ETH Zurich and the 
University of Zurich in the framework of the 
Swiss National Center of Competence in Research 
"Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century". 
The Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Dr. Frank Schimmelfennig.

The concept of Living Reviews journals was 
developed by institutes of the Max Planck 
Society, which pioneered the Living Reviews in 
Relativity (LRR) and the Living Reviews in Solar 
Physics (LRSP). Living Reviews in Relativity has 
already been online for ten years and became one 
of the primary resources in gravitational 
physics. Since 2007, the Living Reviews in 
Landscape Research (LRLR) is published by the 
ZALF, an institute of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. 
The journal family is now affiliated with the Max 
Planck Digital Library, which provides technical 
infrastructure and software support.

LRD is the second Living Reviews journal in the 
social sciences, besides the recently launched 
Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG), 
which is published by the European Community Studies Association Austria.


Links:

Living Reviews in Democracy: http://democracy.livingreviews.org/
Living Reviews journals: http://www.livingreviews.org
Max Planck Digital Library: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de

Contacts:

Prof. Dr. Frank Schimmelfennig
Center for Comparative and
International Studies
ETH Zurich
SEI
CH-8092 Zurich
Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 8062
frank.schimmelfennig at eup.gess.ethz.ch


Frank Schulz
Living Reviews BackOffice
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Am Mühlenberg 1
D-14476 Potsdam-Golm
Phone: +49 (0)331 567 7318
contact at livingreviews.org
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