What sort of material does Digital Antarctica want?

The submission must be of relevance and interest to Digital Antarctica readers. It must ideally enhance Digital Antarctica’s quality, appeal and standing as an adventure activities and ecotourism provider of information.

Digital Antarctica is divided into 4 main Categories: Air, Water, Ice and Rock. These 4 categories consist of a number of activities, events, and attractions. Please review our website to find out more about what interests our members.
Digital Antarctica aims to provide well written articles. Articles should feature places to visit, first person accounts, profiles of prominent outdoor sports people or professionals, equipment, technique and destinations.

We will soon be launching “Exposure” our reader portfolio, which will encompass a range of photographs and biographical information about the photographer. Submissions for this section will be considered now, for the launch of the new Digital Antarctica section in 2004.

Article Criteria

Articles should be between 750 to 1000 words, well written on original topics or take a fresh approach to well known subjects. Human interest, humour, controversy and hard hitting realism should be included when appropriate. Be imaginative but accurate. A simple, clear, concise style is desirable.

1. Tell us where you have been previously published.
2. Let us know what photographs are available with the article.
3. If you like you can attach the whole article/s to the email in Microsoft Word document. Please use a .doc .rtf or .txt extension on Macintosh files.
4. Do not send photographs in the initial contact.
5. It is the contributor’s responsibility to inform previous publishers that you are submitting your work with Digital Antarctica. Digital Antarctica is not liable for any breach of contract you may have made with a third party.
6. If you have not been previously published with Digital Antarctica, tell us plenty about yourself, your travels, education and send a complete sample of your work. Personal notes about new contributors are requested in the form of an autobiographical note up to 200 words.
7. Spell out numbers one to ten inclusive; use numerals for any number higher than ten.
8. Use English not American spelling.
9. Metric weights and measures.
10. Dates to be written as 30 June 2003.
    

Electronic submissions only (email)

The text of articles must be sent to us via email submissions@digitalantarctica.com.au. File size should not exceed 1mb inclusive of images.

Note: You can send images as a separate email if all images combined do not exceed more than 5mb

Photographs/Maps

Digital images for articles.

Preferred format for receiving electronic picture files.

Resolution: 72dpi; 640x480
Format: jpeg
Mode: RGB, CMYK or greyscale

Original line art drawings.

Preferred format for receiving electronic artwork.

EPS format only

Identification of material

To save on cost and protection of your material, we prefer to accept submissions via email. We will accept submissions through the postal system but require a stamped self addressed envelope to return material.

Material sent via mail, should be printed and accompanied by a disc in word format or Rich Text Format. All images submitted should be slide film of no more than 800 ISO speed or digital files on CD no larger than 20mb per image.

Liability of material

All material submitted for possible publication by Digital Antarctica must be original and the property solely of the person submitting it. All contributions are received on this understanding and that he or she assigns copyright in the work to the publisher, Digital Antarctica ABN 61 915 917 012 for the period of 3 months. It must be clearly stated if any of the material, or anything similar to it, has been sold or published, or is being considered for publication elsewhere. The contributor agrees to indemnify the publisher in respect to any breach of copyright, action for defamation or action arising out of inaccuracy of information in the article. The publisher has the right to archive the material and use it for future reference.

Copyright and conditions of acceptance.

By submitting articles and photographs to Digital Antarctica, you assign copyright to us for the period of 3 months after which we will give this back to you. We reserve the right to archive all articles and make them viewable to our members for a period of 3 years. We will not publish material to any third party or use material outside of the guise of Digital Antarctica without the expressed permission of the owner.

Payments and GST

Payment for all articles and accompanying photographs published is currently $49.95 inclusive of GST.