Month:June 2018
“The 90-Day Rule”: Considerations behind EurekAlert!’s Timeliness Guideline
As a nonprofit science news service and consortium of research institutions, EurekAlert! has always striven to facilitate dissemination of the latest scientific breakthroughs to reporters and the public. Since our launch in 1996, scientific publishing and science communication have adapted to the introduction of open access, advanced or early online publication, and other practices where papers become available online before print.…
Working with academics: 5 things I’ve learned
If someone asked me to list the perks of my job, ‘working with academics’ would be one of them. Yet if someone asked me to list the downsides of my job, ‘working with academics’ would also most likely be one of them. As enthusiastic as they can be particular, researchers can inspire and frustrate in equal measure.
Yet academics are at the heart of our press releases; without them, we would have no content to write about.…