Dear Colleagues,
please take note of this message. It is very important that our results
can be expressed in simple terms suitable for a broad audience. For
your PRL publications make sure to provide the requested summaries meant
for a broad audience of readers. Kandice Carter offers help in making
these summaries suitable for such use.
Best regards,
Volker Burkert
Kandice Carter wrote:
> FYI -
>
> As noted in the publication below, the AIP is transitioning to
> providing more general information for non-science journalists.
>
> This will directly affect the PRL summaries requested from paper
> authors. Information from the summaries (requested in the Publicity
> and Outreach section at the bottom of all PRL acceptance e-mails) is
> used to compile this publication. The introductions of future
> summaries will now need to be as general as possible in order to reach
> the expanded audience, and the science presented in the summaries will
> need to be kept at the most basic level achievable, while still
> communicating the importance of the new result.
>
> We'll continue to assist scientists with these summaries upon request.
> Please encourage authors to contact Public Affairs when you know of
> upcoming publications, so that we can assist authors in publicizing
> JLab research in a timely manner through the PRL summaries and other
> avenues.
>
> Thanks,
> Kandice
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *physnews@aip.org <mailto:physnews@aip.org>
>> *Date: *July 28, 2008 2:09:27 PM EDT
>> *To: *kcarter@jlab.org <mailto:kcarter@jlab.org>
>> *Subject: **Physics News Update 867*
>> *Reply-To: *physnews@aip.org <mailto:physnews@aip.org>
>>
>> INSIDE SCIENCE RESEARCH---PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
>> The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Research News
>> Number 867 July 28, 2008 www.aip.org/pnu <http://www.aip.org/pnu>
>> by Phillip F. Schewe, James Dawson, and Martha Heil
>>
>> TO OUR READERS: PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE has been prepared by the Media
>> and Government Relations division of the American Institute of
>> Physics. Since its founding almost 18 years ago, PNU has aimed to
>> provide science journalists with breaking news from physics journals
>> and meetings. PNU has now joined forces with another AIP news
>> service, Inside Science News Service (ISNS). ISNS reports on
>> breaking news and the science behind current affairs and is
>> distributed to newspapers, to reporters who do not normally cover
>> science, and to science journalists. PNU will now transition into
>> "Inside Science Research --Physics News Update," the research
>> section of this broader AIP news service. We hope that the readers
>> of PNU will appreciate this effort to keep physics in the news by
>> preparing reports suitable for a wider audience, a step taken in
>> order to address the increasing scarcity of science reporters and
>> science sections at newspapers. Some of the news items presented
>> here will be longer than before and will provide a more general
>> background. We invite reader comments on this evolutionary
>> development at the following address: insidescience@aip.org
>> <mailto:insidescience@aip.org>
>>
>