''Living Reviews'' is an

open access journal Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

series, which publishes regularly updated

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

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

'', in 1998 at the

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein's theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity ...

. 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 2004 to ...

'' *''

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 * L ...

'' 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 Mac ...

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