The Living Reviews Publishing Platform consists of

• the Living Reviews concept - in particular the type of publication, i.e. solicited, peer refereed review articles (see http://www.livingreviews.org/faq.html)
• the common technical infrastructure (production server, test server and journal hosting environment) and
• the ePublishing Toolkit, a software package providing tools to help in publishing scientific content on the web. (see https://dev.livingreviews.org/projects/epubtk)

The full platform is offered to journals which are members of the Living Reviews consortium. But all parts except for the infrastructure and the brand can be used independently for free.

For more information about the history and reception of Living Reviews, follow the links provided here.

For the concept of a particular journal see the LRR concept.

While we publish "online only", a printable high-quality PDF version of our publications is still deemed indispensable. The online HTML versions are considered the authoritative versions, though, since they reflect updates immediately.

Taking full advantage of the medium does also mean that publications can be updated and the changes being visible to all online readers immediately.

To make discovery of our content easy, we disseminate our metadata via

• an OAI static repository gateway,
• ADS,
• RSS (i.e. make it available to feed crawlers),
• RDF (i.e. make it available to semantic web applications).

For an example of how well Google works as disseminator, see the "Referring Site Report" and the "Search Query Report" in our web log analysis.

The production and the development server are hosted at the RZG in Garching, the test server at the AEI.

Find more information about the technical infrastructure here.

Again, more information is provided here.

Find more information on the ePubTk homepage. In particular, details about the components can be found here:

• Publication Builder
• Reference Database
• Register
• Journal Builder
• EIMS

Screenshot of a browser window displaying an article from Living Reviews in Relativity.

Screenshot of the PDF version of the same article snippet displayed in Acrobat Reader.

Screenshot of import screen of the reference database management GUI. Potential duplicates from a new set of references can be inspected and either be merged with existing records in the database or be marked as different.

Screenshot of the BibTeX filter application for the reference database. This application allows to

• trigger various checks on a BibTeX database containing references of a publication,
• edit the fields of records in the BibTeX database,
• create an XML file from the BibTeX database which is valid for importing into the reference database.

Screenshot of the web-based search interface for the reference database of Living Reviews in Relativity. Note the context dependent suggestions for the author input field.

Screenshot of the management GUI for a journal's register data.

Due to the special kind of publications, our workflow is special, too. Find the details here.

If interest is voiced, a test instance of EIMS to try out may be installed.

Screenshot of the "Tasks" screen of EIMS.

Screenshot of a list of available reports in EIMS.

Screenshot of the "Report" screen for a workflow item (in this case a publication) in EIMS.