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About this site
The AoB Blog provides a forum for discussions relating to The Annals of Botany and AoB PLANTS. Both of these peer-reviewed journals are published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting increased understanding of plant biology for over 100 years. The Registered Office of the Company is: Annals of Botany Company, University of Exeter, Innovation Centre, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RN, UK.
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You can comment on posts in the comment box at the bottom of each page, or on our Google+ or Facebook pages. Hopefully your comment will appear instantly, but sometimes that is not possible due to spam. User Guidelines:
- Add value
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- Be transparent
- Be accurate
- Consider your audience
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For Journalists and Bloggers
The Annals of Botany Company puts out press releases on stories that we think will have wide interest. If you’d like a copy of the paper that the press release is about then we will be happy to provide it. You can contact us via our email form at the OUP.
As far as we’re concerned a science journalist is anyone who is writing competently about science that goes beyond rehashing press releases. So this offer extends to bloggers as well as professional journalists. Ideally we would like you to be signed up to Research Blogging, but it’s not essential. If you’re a blogger and happy to stick to the embargoes then we can also send you embargoed press-releases and photos.
If you work for a media outlet with a large number of readers and want to cover a paper, let us know and we will try and make that paper available on the web for free. We’re limited to how many papers we can do this with because much of the journal is funded by subscription, but we do have some leeway for promotion and if we can we’re happy to add value to your story. We probably can’t offer this to bloggers, but if there’s something you particularly want to cover get in touch and Alun will do his best to make a case for you.
Credits
The template for the site is based on H5 by Digging into WordPress. The CSS style borrows heavily from Jan Henrik Helmers’ tutorial.
The AoB logo is based on the photograph Leaf by Mark Coleman who has very kindly made it available under a creative commons licence.
The current header is Venus Fly Trap by Peter Shanks.
The autumn 2011 header is Powerscourt by Andy Doyle.
The summer header is an untitled photo of a sunflower by tEdGuY49®.
The autumn header was Layers of Autumn by Steve Jurvetson.
The winter header was Galanthus: Snowdrops by Chris Willis.
The header for the IBC18 pages is Cityscape, a view of Melbourne from the Royal Botanic Gardens by Joe Bennett.
The template for the site is based on H5 by Digging into WordPress. The CSS style borrows heavily from Jan Henrik Helmers’ tutorial.