AlphaGalileo News 


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Contents

German joins the Pilot team
Service upgrade plans
Best ever month
Collaborators for 2001-2002
...and finally

Site statistics
Email addresses of the AlphaGalileo team


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German joins the Pilot team

The German research and education ministry has joined its counterparts in France and the United Kingdom in funding AlphaGalileo. 'Wissenschaft im Dialog', the German initiative to promote the understanding of science and technology will act as the Ministry's agent and now joins l'Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences and the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the national representatives of the project.


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Service upgrade plans

We are now working to implement, at the beginning of April, two improvements to the service. The keywords will be expanded to provide greater flexibility in the alerts journalists receive. These will include the ability to select by language of the release as well as breaking the science category into physics, chemistry, life sciences and earth science.

We will also begin to offer post-submission editing for contributors. Hopefully no longer will you need to ask the editor to change details or embargo dates.


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Best ever month for the second month

February with 50,972 page accesses was the busiest month ever for AlphaGalileo, beating the previous best January by almost 10,000 page accesses. This pushes our projected yearly access rate to beyond half a million for the first time.


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Collaborators for 2001-2002

The collaborative bid for Framework 5 funding from the Research Directorate General has now been confirmed as: France, United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, and Greece. The application is being supervised by Andy Kurzfeld <[log in to unmask]>.


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...and finally

Since January we have received the first releases from Delft Technical University, Laboratoire LIP6 from Paris and the UK's Mammal Society.


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Site Statistics

On 6 March the site had (figures from 26 January in brackets): 
Registered journalists: 1,494 (1,383)
Registered contributors: 784 (738)
Press notices: 2,508 (2,329)
Calendar events: 365 (337)


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Email addresses of the AlphaGalileo Editorial Team
If your message is urgent you should avoid a emailing a specific editor, who may be away from the office, and send the message to the duty Site Editor at [log in to unmask]

Peter Green (Project Director) [log in to unmask]
Sabine Louët (European Editor) [log in to unmask]
Jan Pieter Emans (Media Resources Manager)

Site Editor (Duty editor) [log in to unmask]


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AlphaGalileo is the Internet-based press centre for European science, engineering and technology. Our aim is to increase awareness of the excitement and significance of European research amongst young people, industry and tax-payers via the mass media. AlphaGalileo is a project of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. We are funded by the UK and French governments, the Wellcome Trust, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Science and the Central Laboratory for the Research Councils. AlphaGalileo works closely with Euroscience and l'Association Français pour l'Avancement des Sciences to promote European science and technology.

If you are not yet registered you can find out more about the service and access all releases and event details that are out of embargo by visiting http://www.alphagalileo.org.


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

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