ALPHAGALILEO NEWS: 31 AUGUST 2000



CONTENTS
AlphaGalileo and the British Association Festival of Science
French Presidency Of The EU
Research Into The Impact Of AlphaGalileo
New UK National Office
Email addresses of the AlphaGalileo team


ALPHAGALILEO AND THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE
There will be an AlphaGalileo desk within the Press Centre during this 
year's Festival. Manned by the new UK National Officer the desk will be 
able to scan and input news releases on to the site, based on papers 
given at the Festival. The Festival this year runs from Wednesday 7 
September until Tuesday 12th.

If your organisation has a speaker at the Festival please contact either 
the AlphaGalileo desk or the BA Press Centre and they will explain how 
your release can be added to AlphaGalileo. If you are new to the service 
please read our posting policy first. It's available online at 
<http://www.alphagalileo.org/posting.cfm>.


FRENCH PRESIDENCY OF THE EU
The French science minister Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg has made 
AlphaGalileo one of his priorities for the 6 months of the French 
Presidency. A European science news service is a key tool to support a 
European research area. The AlphaGalileo service will be demonstrated at 
international conferences in Grenoble and Nice this autumn as well as in 
Paris during French Science Week in mid-October. 


RESEARCH INTO THE IMPACT OF ALPHAGALILEO
This autumn it is hoped that two complimentary pieces of research to be 
carried out  in the UK and in France will demonstrate how effective we 
have been so far and point out ways in which we may need to change and 
improve.

The UK research will be undertaken by MORI (Market & Opinion Research 
International Limited) who are perhaps better-known in Britain for their 
political opinion polls. The research will be primarily quantitative with 
over 100 user journalists and non-user journalists contacted by phone. A 
smaller sample of French and German journalists will also be contacted.

The French research which is still at preliminary planning stage, will be 
qualitative research into the impact of the service on French journalists.

If any journalists do not wish to be contacted, and you haven't already 
done so, please contact Peter Green <[log in to unmask]> and 
he'll take your name off the list that will go to the research companies.


NEW UK NATIONAL OFFICE
The University of Leicester has been appointed by the British Association 
to act as UK National Office to promote the service and science 
communication in general within the UK. The work will be carried out by 
Jean Collins <[log in to unmask]>. Her primary target will be 
UK university and commercial research organisations. 


SITE STATISTICS

On 30 August the site had (in brackets are the figures from June): 
Registered journalists: 1,808 (1,677)
Registered contributors: 900 (863)
Press notices: 3,491 (3,048)
Calendar events: 536 (446)


EMAIL ADDRESSES OF THE ALPHAGALILEO EDITORIAL TEAM
If your message is urgent you should avoid a emailing a specific member 
of staff, who may be away from the office, instead send the message to 
the duty team member at [log in to unmask]

Peter Green - Project Director  [log in to unmask]
Sabine Louët - Content Manager [log in to unmask]
Jan Pieter Emans - Media Resources Manager 
[log in to unmask]
Jean Collins - UK National Officer [log in to unmask]


Duty team member [log in to unmask]

Peter Green
Project Director
AlphaGalileo: the Internet press centre for European science, medicine 
and technology
www.alphagalileo.org

peter.green @alphagalileo.org
+44 1793 514276 (answerphone and fax)
07867 787889 (mobile)



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