''Living Reviews'' is an open access journal series, which publishes regularly updated

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

review articles in various fields of science. Its concept of "living" articles takes advantage of web-based

electronic publishing Electronic publishing (also referred to as publishing, digital publishing, or online publishing) includes the digital publication of e-books, Online magazine, digital magazines, and the development of digital library, digital libraries and catalo ...

and allows authors to update their articles with the latest developments and research findings. The concept of ''Living Reviews'' was developed by

Bernard Schutz Bernard F. Schutz (born August 11, 1946, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American and naturalised British physicist. He is well-known for his research in Einstein's theory of general relativity, especially for his contributions to the detection ...

and Jennifer Wheary, who started the first journal, ''

Living Reviews in Relativity ''Living Reviews in Relativity'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal publishing reviews on relativity in the areas of physics and astrophysics. It was founded by Bernard Schutz and published at the Max Planck Institute for Gravit ...

'', in 1998 at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. The series now contains three entries *''

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Living Reviews in Solar Physics ''Living Reviews in Solar Physics'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal publishing reviews on all areas of solar and heliospheric physics. It was founded and published at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research from 200 ...

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Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics Living or The Living may refer to: Common meanings *Life, a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms ** Living species, one that is not extinct *Personal life, the course of an individual human's life * H ...

'' In June 2015, the series was sold to

Springer International Publishing AG Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macm ...

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