Special offers for journalists

As an active working journalist, you are constantly in need of up-to-the-minute news well founded on facts! At idw, you will find the news of the scientific and scholarly world - from first hand and at your fingertips. idw is at your service for the specific subject-related research you require - around the clock, every day of the week, the entire year. Whatever it is that you are looking for - experts and specialists to consult with, background information, very specific details - idw will connect you to hundreds of press offices at universities, research institutes, foundations, academies, research and development enterprises, specialist and professional associations as well as many other scientific and scholarly institutions, primarily in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Work easily and comfortably on the internet

What idw offers for the use of journalists is free of cost for you. Most of our services can be utilized directly via the internet, for example research at the idw archive with thousands of headlines plus publications from the world of science and research or Calendar that will give you an overview of the lectures and events coming up. With Expert Finder, you have a practical and fast instrument at your service if you are looking for a specialist to query. As a journalist, you can quickly make direct contact with experts and specialists by utilizing our idw Directory of Experts, containing lists of scientists and scholars ready and able to give you answers. Lists of experts are always put together for up-to-the-minute breaking news, topics of current interest, etc. and are online only for a limited time.

However, should you wish to use the full services of idw, you will need to register, which is also free of charge. To complete your personal registration, please click yourself to Access, where you will be asked for user identification and a password, both of which you may choose. You can then put together an individual news subscription based on your personal wishes and interests - please go to: News Subscription

If you do not have your own personal access yet, please click on: Here.

Full-time working journalists also have the possibility to receive a press release not yet available, i.e. held back until a particular date, ahead of other idw users. This enables you to do research in advance and also to utilize the "lists of experts" published by idw in reference to major breaking news and/or important events. These lists contain the contact data of specialists with the relevant expertise who are willing to provide background information and/or analyses to journalists and/or to give interviews. In order to use these services of ours, journalists must be accredited by us first. This service is also free of charge. When you enter your personal registration - see above - you will find additional information regarding accreditation.

Fast and successful: instruments for journalists at idw

1. Individual and immediate: up-to-the-minute news

The hundreds of press offices of the institutions associated with idw publish their up-to-date information and announcements in the idw system. At the same time, with no technical or other delay, this information from the scientific and scholarly world is published on our website. All news appears immediately, for example, under Newsticker and is sent by email to subscribers.

Certain subject fields or areas of knowledge are important for you? No problem: make your choice! At News Subscription, you can put together your individual blend of choices, just as you need it for the editorial demands of the day or for researching a topic in the medium or longer term, like "medicine and health", for example, or "geography and related sciences" or "biotechnology". Thus you are always in the picture when it comes to research projects, the newest technical developments, symposia or seminars to take place in the near future, important publications, and major events in the university world.

Another interesting service from us: Journalists can choose the function Embargoed News when they register for personal access. You will then receive press releases, announcements, etc. which are earmarked for publication at a future date. idw receives these from its associated institutions and publishes them in advance for the journalists who are registered for this service. You can thus more easily plan your subject matter, choose a topic and research it with time to spare. However, please be advised that if you register for such "early" announcements, you are then bound by the accepted code of press conduct, which does not permit an earlier publication or use of such news or information. Any journalist who does not adhere to this principle of fairness will be taken off the list of subscribers for such announcements.

For accreditation enabling you to receive these in-advance announcements, you must have a valid press card. Please fill out the spaces for information on press card (number, association, validity) during the registration process, and send a scan of front and back of your press card to the email address service@idw-online.de. Your personal access will then be expanded to include a subscription to this special service.

You have the following options with this service: either to receive all announcements, etc. as a full and complete text or in the form of short summaries, and whether you wish to have each and every one individually and immediately, or all of them once a day, or even once a week as an overview. You will then receive your news in the desired format and rhythm directly by email. Without charge and without advertising! Your personal data will not be passed on. idw is a non-profit organization and completely financed by the scientific and scholarly member institutions associated with it.

The news archives are at your service for background information. All information published in our system since idw was established is at your disposal. With the help of a search engine, you can look for key words, place of publication and time of publication.

2. You ask, and experts answer: Find experts with the idw Expert Finder!

You have done your first research in regard to your topic at hand. Now you need scientifically founded information, real facts, and you would like to interview real experts. Our Expert Finder brings you together with specialists from all institutions associated with idw. You get information, assessments and evaluations from first hand. In order to make an inquiry, click on Here.

In almost all cases, you will be able to make contact with your selected experts within a few days, perhaps even in hours. Often several specialists are ready to answer questions, contribute a written text themselves, or come to the studio for an interview.

Send an inquiry to the Expert Finder

In regard to selected topics that can be expected to meet with great public interest over a period of time, idw offers so-called "Lists of Experts". These lists contain the contact data of experts with knowledge and knowhow who are prepared and willing to provide journalists with background information and/or personal assessments of the situation or subject, as well as perhaps to give interviews. Due to the fact that these lists of experts contain personal information on our specialists, only the journalists who have received prior accreditation from us have access to them. When you complete your personal registration at Personal Access, you will receive additional information on how to become accredited with us. And as soon as a new list of experts is published, you will be notified by email.

Look at lists of experts

3. Who's Who/Who is Where? - are you in the know? Our Address Book is!

Under idw Addressbook, you can find all our associated institutions: universities, technical colleges and polytechnics, academies, research institutes, associations, foundations, enterprises. Here you can also find the correct name of the person to speak to - as a rule, this is the press spokesman/woman - together with the up-to-date postal address, telephone and fax numbers, email address, internet website, and so on. A very practical assistant to look things up, and then to look up the people you want!

4. Further reading: the idw Kiosk

Look beyond the end of your nose - take a look at the whole wide world of the internet! It's easy with our idw Kiosk. It has links to hundreds of both general and specialized offers on the web, such as university magazines, trade journals, research catalogs, address books, and much more.

5. Precise planning

The idw Calendar enables you to plan your appointments and make exact plans for work. Here you can find dates and events from the scientific and scholarly world. Thus you can plan for the short as well as long term - you know about plans, projects, lectures, seminars, congresses, etc. when they are coming up. Thousands of dates are to be found in the idw Calendar: from press conference to congress, from lecture to kids' summer courses at institutions of higher learning. Choose the ones that are of interest to you, in terms of topic and location (regional or wider afield) and have the information sent to you regularly by email.