The Living Reviews Project

sInfo steering committee meeting, Garching 30^th June 2006

Christina Weyher

Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management
in the Max Planck Society

A micro-publisher ...

Living Reviews in Relativity - MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam;
Living Reviews in Solar Physics - MPI for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau;
Living Reviews in European Governance - CONNEX and NEWGOV, Vienna;
Living Reviews in Landscape Research - Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg;
some more in various stages of preparation.

Links:

Living Reviews Journal Portal

... and Software Shop

ePubTk: the ePublishing Toolkit
the Living Reviews publishing platform
Conference Software with the MPI for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Hermes in cooperation with the MoWGLI project

Links:

Operational Concept...

Provide central publishing platform and publishing tools
Max Planck Institutes can get editorial support
external organisations set up their own journal backoffice

Benefits...

visible committment of MPS to golden road of Open Access
two (plus x) highly valued scientific recources published by MPI
transfer of achievements in greater academic community
recognition in ePublishing community

Where are we going?

further extension of journal family
... steady but healty

OA publishing as library responsibility
interoperability of publishing components
(c.f. Berlin 4 satellite workshop, ELPUB 2006)

For more information on publishing by libraries - in particular more on "archive-based publishing and overlay journals"- see

Presentation by Alberto Pepe from CERN
Presentation by Bas Savenije from Igitur

To follow up on the workshop at Berlin 4 a wiki was started to collect ideas on interoperability of epublishing software components.

Information about the publishing workshop at ELPUB 2006 is available here.

Who are we?

LivRev core team

Frank Schulz (AEI), managing editor [2001]
Vera Osswald (AEI), editorial assistance, database management [2000]
Robert Forkel, programmer/technical lead [2002]
Dr. Andre Wobst, programmer [2005]
Christina Weyher, project management [1997]

editorial offices outside the MPS: Vienna, Müncheberg

co-developers for hermes and conference tools

the community: editorial boards, authors, referees, readers

Our Business Model ...

... is pretty simple:

Serve the community, find organisations willing to pay.

... worked pretty well so far.

Thank you for your attention.

Questions?

Find links to relevant resources in the online version of this presentation at http://dev.livingreviews.org/presentations/sinfo_30Jun2006.html

sInfo steering committee meeting, Garching 30th June 2006