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Are you responsible for engaging with media on behalf of your organisation? Do you want a new way to promote your science news stories?Scimex provides an easy, interactive way to showcase your organisation's research and build your media presence. Embargoed material can now be uploaded to the site giving opt-in, vetted journalists access to the material before the story goes public.Over 2500 registered journalists in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific have access to your material (e.g. media release, paper, images). Further information on using Scimex to draw media attention to your research news story can be found here.
Media officers from research organisations can use Scimex to:
Register below to start using Scimex as a media officer. Registration is free for all media officers from research organisations, however there can be a fee involved to upload stories to the newsfeed. Australian organisations may pay for a single release, purchase a subscription or become an affiliate to submit news stories to the Scimex newsfeed. For more information on Australian pricing details, click here.
Please note, New Zealand organisations have a different setup and should contact the SMCNZ if they wish to upload stories to the newsfeed after registering here.
Your email address will be your username when you log into Scimex. You should use a work email address (all lowercase).
If your organisation does not appear in the above list, click here to add one manually.
We don't need your suburb, town or city is sufficient.
Occasionally we need to contact media officers who work in specific research areas such as health. Tick any box that might be relevant to you. If you are a general media officer working at a university, we suggest you leave this question blank.
If your organisation is involved in quite specific areas of research (eg: cancer research or photonics), enter those keywords here. You can leave this blank if there are too many keywords to mention. This info is for SMC internal use only.
If you would like one of our media officers to touch base with you, please indicate here.
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