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<font size=3>[Forwarding from the Living Reviews BackOffice at the Max
Planck Institute. --Peter Suber.]<br><br>
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Living Reviews in Democracy (LRD) <br>
a new open access journal in political science<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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Links:<br><br>
Living Reviews in Democracy:
<a href="http://democracy.livingreviews.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://democracy.livingreviews.org/<br>
</a>Living Reviews journals:
<a href="http://www.livingreviews.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.livingreviews.org<br>
</a>Max Planck Digital Library:
<a href="http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de<br><br>
</a>Contacts:<br><br>
Prof. Dr. Frank Schimmelfennig<br>
Center for Comparative and<br>
International Studies<br>
ETH Zurich<br>
SEI<br>
CH-8092 Zurich<br>
Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 8062<br>
frank.schimmelfennig@eup.gess.ethz.ch<br><br>
<br>
Frank Schulz<br>
Living Reviews BackOffice<br>
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics<br>
Am Mühlenberg 1<br>
D-14476 Potsdam-Golm<br>
Phone: +49 (0)331 567 7318<br>
contact@livingreviews.org<br>
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