For Journalists and Bloggers

The Annals of Botany 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 card-carrying journalists. Ideally we’d 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.

Additionally if you work for a media outlet with a large number of readers and want to cover a paper, if you let us know 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.