Section Policies

(Free service)

To efficiently increase the outreach of their research, authors are suggested to prepare a video contribution (i.e. elevator video pitch, video abstract or topical video), where they present their work to an audience beyond their immediate public of fellow scientists by means of visual storytelling.

To do so, they are expected to send us a short (up to 02’00’’) video clip, presenting their study in a nutshell, in order to spark the viewer’s further interest in their findings and work, as well as the research topic as a whole. Ideally, such contribution will be:

• filmed in high quality, preferably with .mp4 file extension with the H.264 video codec;
• directed from the author’s own point of view, using conversational tone and minimal jargon;
• presented in fluent English or featuring English subtitles;
• accompanied by a transcript in English;
• accompanied by a short text introduction for the purposes of a blog post.

Request our Guest video contribution service by contacting the PR department, regardless of the status of your submission, since there are no time constraints for guest blog post publication.

Following the necessary final touches to the guest blog post, the contribution will be:

• Shared on RUTube channel.

Please note that the PR team reserves the right to refuse distribution of a guest contribution on the occasion that it is provided in poor English, uses considerable amount of jargon or does not abide by basic ethical standards.