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CONTENTS
Feedback to contributors has started
Have you tried the new Experts service?
Site statistics
Email addresses of the AlphaGalileo team


FEEDBACK TO CONTRIBUTORS HAS STARTED
Contributors can now see how many times their releases have been read
online. Log on and go to 'Edit Notice' and you'll see the running total
of page impressions since the feature went live on 23 February. The total
is updated in real time. Additionally the AlphaGalileo has access, again
in real time, to the statistics for all releases.

At present the top ten releases (remember since 23 February) are:

26/02/2001: Cannibalistic Celts Discovered In South Gloucestershire,
University of Bristol (514 impressions)
14/02/2001: Museum Of London Archaeologists Uncover Unique Earthenware
Phallic Drinking Cup,  Museum Of London (227 impressions)
22/02/2001: Robotic Revolution, Staffordshire University (207 impressions)
24/02/2001:  Freezing human eggs - new findings point way to greater
success, MW Communications  (138  impressions)
28/02/2001:   UAB researchers discover a possible area of treatment for
spongiform encephalopathies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (126
impressions)
12/02/2001:  Next step in genome research: Scientists try to reveal the
function of every single mouse gene, University of Bonn (114 impressions)
23/02/2001:  Virtual Reality Saves Nature,  Informnauka Agency (98
impressions)
28/02/2001"  'Sound vitamins' to pep up old age, University of Leicester
(94 impressions)
28/02/2001:  5688 Roman shopping list goes on display at the Science
Museum Science, Museum (91 impressions)
27/02/2001:  5670 EU-project strengthens monitoring the impact of climate
change on nature, Wageningen Universiteit(90 impressions)

These statistics plus the number of email alerts sent out, which are
included in the confirmatory email we send once a release has  been
accepted, provide a very useful picture of how much interest there is in
individual releases.

Several contributors have asked if we could identify which journalists
read their releases. We will not do this, because of journalists's
concerns over their privacy.


EXPERT SERVICE
This service is now open not just to journalists but to new experts. We
currently have over 3,600 experts from most European countries registered
with us.

If you or your organisation would like to add names of experts to the
database go to http://207.153.68.87/ and select 'Register as an Expert '.
If an institution would like to add large numbers of names directly
please email [log in to unmask] and he will agree an
appropriate file transfer with you.


SITE STATISTICS
On 2 March the site had (in brackets are the figures from January):

Registered journalists: 2,216 (2,081)
Registered contributors:  1,052 (1,021)
Experts: 3,668 (n/a)
Press notices: 4,624 (4,399)
Calendar events: 707 (651)



EMAIL ADDRESSES OF THE ALPHAGALILEO 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 Editor at [log in to unmask]

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

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