ALPHAGALILEO NEWS: 26 JANUARY 2001

Please accept our apologies for any cross-posting.


CONTENTS
New Experts service
MORI impact survey results
Our millennium
Site statistics
Email addresses of the AlphaGalileo team


EXPERT SERVICE
Journalists can now search for experts to provide background or quotes on
news stories by using our Find an expert service. The service provides
tow options. An on-line database that can be searched by free text and a
more general email enquiry service that uses the current AlphaGalileo
keywords to match experts to enquiries.

For the time being to access the service as a journalists or to register
as an expert or update an expert's details you will be asked to log in at:

http://207.153.68.87/index.cfm

User guides for experts and journalists can be found at the above URL.
The service is only available at present in English.


The database consists mainly of people who were registered originally
with the Media Resource Service, which we have been running manually
since last January.


MORI IMPACT SURVEY
The independent research by Market Research and Opinion International
(MORI) that AlphaGalileo has become the leading Internet service for
European science, medicine and technology news. Three-quarters of
registered journalists thought the service effective and 20 per cent
write more stories on UK and European science, medicine or technology
issues than before as a result of using it.

The challenge for the project team and our collaborators across Europe is
to encourage more greater openness about science and in turn to convince
science bodies to disseminate their research news on AlphaGalileo.

Copies of the report and its associated tables can be downloaded as PDFs
from the 'Resources' section of our site.

OUR MILLENNIUM
At the beginning of January the service accepted its 2,000 th journalist
and 1,000 th contributor. Would Galileo Galilei  have approved of
millenniums starting at year one and not year zero?

SITE STATISTICS
On 26 January the site had (in brackets are the figures from October):

Registered journalists: 2,081 (1,841)
Registered contributors: 1,021 (918)
Press notices: 4,399 (3,674)
Calendar events: 651 (569)



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]

Peter Green, Project Director: [log in to unmask]
Sabine Louët, Content Manager: [log in to unmask]
Duty editor: [log in to unmask]
General news enquiries: [log in to unmask]
General experts enquiries: [log in to unmask]


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)
07867 787889 (mobile)