open access

EGU Photo Competition 2019: Now open for submissions!

Olivia Trani January 16, 2019

Jebel Bayda (White Mountain). Credit: Luigi Vigliotti (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu). This is an aerial view of the Jebel Bayda, a white volcano made by silica-rich lava (comendite) in the Khaybar area. The photo is one of the three winners of the EGU Photo Competition 2018!

If you are pre-registered for the 2019 General Assembly (Vienna, 7 – 12 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition! Winners receive a free registration to next year’s General Assembly! The tenth annual EGU photo competition opened on 15 January. Up until 15 February, every participant pre-registered for the General Assembly can submit up to three original photos and one moving image ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: The best of imaggeo in 2018

Olivia Trani December 31, 2018

The best images of 2018, from imaggeo, as chosen by our readers and followers.

Imaggeo, our open access image repository, is packed with beautiful images showcasing the best of the Earth, space and planetary sciences. Throughout the year we use the photographs submitted to the repository to illustrate our social media and blog posts. For the past few years we’ve celebrated the end of the year by rounding-up some of the best Imaggeo images. But it’s no easy task to pick which ...[Read More]

Preprint power: changing the publishing scene

David Fernández-Blanco July 25, 2018

Open access buttons Credit: h_pampel via Flickr CC BY-SA

Open access publishing has become common practice in the science community. In this guest post, David Fernández-Blanco, a contributor to the EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Division blog, presents one facet of open access that is changing the publishing system for many geoscientists: preprints. Open access initiatives confronting the publishing system The idea of open access publishing and fr ...[Read More]

Uploading your 2018 General Assembly presentation

Olivia Trani June 12, 2018

Why not share your EGU 2018 presentation by uploading online? (Credit: EGU / Foto Pfluegl)

This year it is, once again, possible to upload your oral presentations, PICO presentations and posters from EGU 2018 for online publication alongside your abstract, giving all participants a chance to revisit your contribution – hurrah for open science! Files can be in either PowerPoint or PDF format. Note that presentations will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. ...[Read More]