idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Please use the contact form or get in touch directly with the idw team:
E-mail: service@idw-online.de
Tel.: +49 (0) 921 34 899 89 70
Fax: +49 (0) 921 34 899 89 78
Setting up an account on idw-online.de including a subscription is free of charge.
Click on the “Register” link to the right of the top menu bar. Fill in the mandatory fields on the form. The registration is combined with setting up a personal subscription.
Click on the “Login” link to the right of the top menu bar. Enter your user name and your password. Confirm the entry with “OK”.
Log in. Go to “My idw” and from there to the “To your menu” page. Use the “Edit subscription data” link under “Access Administration”.
Log in. Go to “My idw” and from there to the “To your menu” page. Use the “Stop subscription” link under “Access Administration”.
Log in. Go to “My idw” and from there to “Edit Subscription”. Here you can use the holiday wizard to pause the mailings for either a fixed period or an indefinite period.
Log in. Go to “My idw” and from there “To your menu”. Use the “Delete idw account completely” link under “Access Administration”. Press officers cannot delete their accounts themselves. In such cases please contact the idw team.
Any press releases on which the member institutions have imposed a news embargo are distributed exclusively to journalists accredited with idw. More detailed information is available under “Research”.
Accreditation provides journalists with additional options: receiving press releases under a news embargo ahead of time (non-accredited journalists receive such items only after the news embargo has expired) and access to the idw lists of experts (with direct contact to specialists). More detailed information is available under “Research”.
Log in. Go to “My idw”, from there “To your menu”, then to the “Professional Data (journalist)” link under “Access Administration”. You will see this link only if you are registered as a journalist. Enter the issuing association, number and validity period of your journalist pass here. Then please send a scan of your journalist pass to presse@idw-online.de or fax it to +49 (0) 921 - 34 899 89 79. If you have no journalist pass, please send us other valid credentials confirming your professional identity as a journalist.
You can find detailed information in the data confidentiality regulations.
We need your data, especially your e-mail address, for mailing news items as specified in your subscription or for setting up a press officer account (for members). In principle, we collect and store your personal data only to the extent necessary for the provision of the contractually agreed service or customisation of our website.
As soon as your account is terminated (deleted), we will delete your data.
If you have forgotten your user name or password, please use our “Forgotten password” function on the login screen. You will then receive an e-mail with a link via which you can log in once and then allocate a new password to your account. If your e-mail address has changed, please send a short message to our service address (service@idw-online.de) giving us both your old and new e-mail addresses.
If you are again requested to log in after you have entered your access data, you have entered either an incorrect user name or an incorrect password. Check whether the shift key on your computer keyboard has been activated. A distinction is made between uppercase and lowercase letters when entering your user name and your password. Please also watch out for blank spaces inserted or copied by mistake. If you have forgotten your password, please use our “Forgotten password” function (see above). If you can exclude all of the error sources described above, please contact the idw team.
Log in. Go to “My idw” and from there “To your menu”. Use the “Personal Data” link under “Access Administration”. If you enter a new e-mail address, we will automatically send your idw subscription to that address.
Log in as a registered press officer (only for idw member institutions). Go to “My idw” and from there “To your menu”. Use the “Data of my institution” link under “Access Administration”. Here you can alter, for example, the logo, the website address or the telephone numbers of your institution. If you wish to alter the name, short name or invoice address of your institution, please contact the idw team.
The search field is an integral part of the idw website located directly below the header and showing the phrase “Search news and events”. The search addresses the idw archives which contain all press releases and events ever published via idw. You will find more detailed information about the search function by pressing the “?” icon beside the advanced search.
You can sort the hit list either according to relevance or by date. Use the filter function in the right-hand column of the page to refine your search result. You can specify, for example, the regional relevance, subject area or type of press release. Click on the “search” button to confirm your selection and obtain the filtered result.
Click on the “Advanced search” link on the right next to the search field. A window with additional search options, such as regional relevance, subject area or type of press release, will open.
The idw scientific information service is a registered association providing a technical platform and keeping it up to date for its members for publishing news and events and for expert recruitment. Only the press offices of member institutions are permitted to publish press releases and events via idw-online. If you belong to such an institution, please get in touch with your press office with regard to any materials you wish to publish. You will find an overview in the membership directory.
If you are interested in becoming an idw member, please contact the idw team. Detailed information about the admission procedure you will find here.
idw-online targets mainly scientific journalists and primarily distributes scientific information, for example current research results. The information must also be directly related to the institution by which it is published and must not contain any commercial content.
Log in as a press officer (only for idw member institutions). Go to “My idw” and from there “To your menu”. Click on the “Press releases from my institution” link under the “Press Releases” heading. Here you will find all news items which have been distributed by your institution via the idw system.
News items can no longer be edited or deleted once they have been launched. Following upload, the information is immediately published on idw-online and distributed via various interfaces and channels which can no longer be reached by subsequent alterations. Furthermore, the press releases are used by journalists as the basis for their work, including direct quotations. Therefore the information given in the press release must be regarded as reliable and cannot be altered or withdrawn once it has been published.
If the error is serious, you can add a supplementary text to your press release. Log in and open the relevant press release. Go to the “Enter supplement” tab at the centre of the page. A text box will open at the end of the press release. Enter only the text passages to be corrected there. Once it has been saved, the supplementary text will appear below the original press release. If the news item is not older than two weeks, it can be redistributed together with the supplement. Please activate the redistribution only if significant corrections to content have been made. If you enter your corrections after the two weeks have expired or deactivate the redistribution option, the supplement will be shown together with the press release when it is retrieved from the archives, but no e-mail distribution will be triggered.
You will find details of all events under “Events” in the vertical navigation column and/or via the calendar on the right of the website page and via the search function.
Go to “About idw” and from there to the “Membership directory”; then select the desired institution. Click on the “Events” button. Here you will find all current events which have been announced by the selected institution via the idw system.
You can forward news items or events by e-mail. Log in. Then open the detail view of the relevant press release or event. On the top right below the header, next to the “Print”, “Remember” and “PDF” icons, you will also find the “Forward” option. When you click on the “Paper plane” icon, you will be directed to a short form. Here you can enter the e-mail address to which you wish to have the information sent.
When your press release was dispatched it was provided with certain attributes (such as “type of press release”, “subject area”). You will only receive this press release with your subscription if these attributes match your personal profile of interests as specified in your idw subscription.
Under idw events all events which have been classified at least as “regional” are shown automatically. If your event is a “local” event, you will find it via the advanced search by activating the “Local” selection button.
Yes, you can. Log in. Go to “My idw” and from there “To your menu”. Go to “Configure RSS feed” under “General options”. Select your preferred categories there. After you have confirmed your settings, the idw system will automatically create a link for you. You must copy this link into your RSS reader to display your pre-set selection of news items and events on your computer.
Select the desired institution from the membership directory. In addition to the “Press releases” and/or “Events” buttons, you can activate the RSS feed icon.
If you are a press relations officer of an idw member institution, you will find an option to configure RSS feeds for your own press releases and events in your menu under “Press Releases” and “Scientific Calendar”.
An RSS feed is a file in RSS format published on a web server. The data supplied is regularly updated via an Internet link with the help of an RSS reader. In the simplest version, the headline and the relevant link to the press release are published. Most web browsers and e-mail programs already come with integrated RSS readers to visualize news items. The advantage of RSS feeds is that you can gather information about current news and events at any time without having to visit the provider’s website.
All press releases ever published via idw-online are stored in the news archives. You can use either the simple or advanced search function to search the archives.
You can also adapt the news items on the idw homepage to your personal interests and needs. To do so, you must log in with your user name and password. Then go to “My idw” and from there “To your menu”. Here you can select the “Set up/edit My idw” option under “Access Administration” and then specify the desired criteria.
If you click on a press release or an event and receive an error message (“Page not found”), please e-mail this information to the idw team. To enable us to check the error message, please copy the relevant address line (URL) into your e-mail and let us know from which page you tried to access the defective news item. If it is an external website address not starting with http://idw-online.de, please contact the operator of that website directly.
Current versions of commonly available e-mail programs (Outlook, Thunderbird etc.) show website addresses in e-mails automatically as links to be clicked on. Should your e-mail program not do that, you can activate this function manually. Consult your system administrator on this matter.
This is normally caused by a defect in Internet Explorer. To prevent this error, we have inserted a JavaScript code on our website pages. But it may happen that your firewall cancels this code. In that case, please consult your technical service provider or use another web browser, such as Firefox.
This error is probably due either to the settings for your subscription or to your spam filter. Log in to the idw website. Go to “My idw” and from there “To your menu” and to the “Personal data” link under “Access Administration”. Check first your submitted e-mail address, your holiday settings under “Holiday function” and your subscription settings under “Edit/set up subscription”. In order to receive any messages, you must select at least one of the fields for countries, federal states or postcode areas. If you cannot find any error in these areas, you should check whether the idw e-mails may be caught in your spam filter. In that case, you need to adjust its permeability accordingly.
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You can use brackets to separate combinations from each other, e.g. (Philo not logy) or (Psycho and logy).
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You can also use the advanced search without entering search terms. It will then follow the criteria you have selected (e.g. country or subject area).
If you have not selected any criteria in a given category, the entire category will be searched (e.g. all subject areas or all countries).
