Media Advisory
AGU Services for the Media
This is an annual reminder of services for the media available from the American Geophysical Union. No action is required of you, unless you wish to add or delete services. If you do nothing, the status quo will continue.
1. Press releases
AGU issues 40–50 press releases per year, including media advisories. About half are research-related releases, summarizing some of the newsworthy papers published in AGU’s 16 peer-reviewed journals. Contact information for one or more authors and citation data are provided at the end of each release. AGU press releases are never embargoed, nor are the journal papers to which they refer. We will send copies of papers, either as-published or “in proof” to bona fide journalists. (Others may purchase copies of published papers.) Press releases always include the digital object identifier (doi) of journal papers; abstracts of those already published are freely available on the AGU website. To see previously issued press releases: http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/media.html#pressreleases
Among the media advisories issued each year are several in advance of each AGU meeting, providing information for potential or actual News Media registrants, and notices of AGU’s annual competition for the Sullivan and Perlman Awards for Excellence in Science Journalism.
Currently, around 1,400 science writers, public information officers, and others around the world subscribe to the AGU press release list. You are on the list if you received this message directly from AGU by e-mail. Please share this message with any colleagues whom you think might be interested in joining.
Those wishing to join the list should send an e-mail to Harvey Leifert at hleifert@agu.org (from 15 January to Peter Weiss at pweiss@agu.org), providing:
- Full name
- Title (e.g., Reporter, Editor, Communications Officer)
- Institution (or “Freelance”)
- Postal address
- Work phone
- Fax (if any)
- E-mail address to be used
2. AGU Journal Highlights
Once or twice per month (19 times in 2006), AGU issues a set of 6–12 highlights from its cutting-edge journal, Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), and occasionally from other journals. Each highlight is a one-paragraph summary of a journal paper and includes the paper’s doi and contact information for all authors. This feature makes it easy for reporters or PIOs interested in research from a particular institution or geographic locale to scan quickly for relevant papers. To see previously issued Highlights: http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/media.html#highlights.
To receive Highlights by e-mail, you must first be registered for press releases. Send a message, saying that you would also like to receive Highlights. Currently, around 600 persons worldwide receive Highlights by e-mail.
3. E-Alerts
To make it easier for you to learn about the latest AGU journal articles, the E-Alert service delivers right to your e-mailbox a weekly listing of articles published within the past seven days. You may select any or all of AGU’s journals, depending upon your interests, or you may select one or more of 33 topical areas, ranging from Atmospheric Composition and Structure to Volcanology, and you will be informed of relevant articles, regardless of which journal has published them. You may, of course, read any of the abstracts online, and journalists may request copies of the full papers.
You sign up for E-Alerts yourself: http://www.agu.org/e_alert/.
4. General queries
Need an expert in some area of Earth and space science? Want to check a fact? We will do our best to help you. Call or send an e-mail, being as specific as possible, and state your deadline.
