NeuroImage is establishing a YouTube Channel (  http://www.youtube.com/neuroimage), with the aim of collaborating with the community with a free-to-view platform for posting and viewing videos related to all areas of neuroimaging. All videos will be screened first to ensure that they are relevant and scientifically sound.

Prior to launching the website to submissions from the community, we would like to identify a team of "Video Advisors" who will evaluate all submitted videos prior to deciding whether to accept them for hosting on the NeuroImage YouTube Channel, as well as prepare a few videos themselves. To identify these "Video Advisors", we are launching a contest.

The Contest

Up to six individuals will become "Video Advisors" to NeuroImage for a period of one year.  This represents an exciting opportunity for each winner to help shape new content for the community, providing a unique opportunity to network extensively within the research community that submits video material. 

How to Enter

PhD students and Post-doctoral level researchers in neuroimaging are now invited to submit their own video for the Elsevier NeuroImage "Video Advisor" Contest.  Submissions should be received no later than 30 November, 2009 and must be deposited at  ftp://anonymous.elsevier.com/elsevier-in/NeuroImage (if you have any problems please cut and paste the URL into your browser). It is essential that each video complies with the “Submission Checklist” prior to submission.

Candidate evaluation

The criteria by which the winners of the internship are evaluated:

(1) Scientific Quality
(2) Quality of verbal presentation
(3) Quality of video presentation  

The winners will be identified by a panel of judges made up from the editorial team that includes the Editor-in-Chief plus representatives from key sections within NeuroImage (i.e. Anatomy & Physiology, Methods & Modelling, Cognitive Neuroscience and Systems Neuroscience), ensuring that each of the key areas in the field are covered, i.e. neuroscience, physics, mathematics and computational science. The winners of the contest will be notified by email on or about Friday, December 18, 2009.

"Video Advisors"

"Video Advisors" will evaluate video submissions to the NeuroImage YouTube Channel to ascertain whether they are of suitable quality and to submit at least two suitable videos of their own during the 12 months period. In addition, "Video Advisors" would act as champions for the channel.

"Video Advisors" would be announced by the end of December, with the appointment commencing on appointment commencing on 1 January, 2010 and ending on 30 September, 2010. Awards would be honorific (i.e. no remuneration), but winners will be acknowledged as "Video Advisors" to NeuroImage.

Submission Checklist

Content submitted for consideration must conform to these criteria. Failure to do so will lead to your video not being considered. The videos submitted must therefore be:

(1) Related to a recently published hot research article (this is not limited to work published in NeuroImage) or a current, topical controversy directly relevant to the field of neuroimaging.

(2) Presented so that the subject covered is of interest to a wider neuroimaging audience.

(3) Delivered in a presentation style that best communicates significance and relevance of the work, and can include talking to camera, interviews, panel discussions, neuroimaging videos, PowerPoint presentations, etc.

(4) Submitted as final, web-ready files, i.e. no further editing will be done. Files that present significant flaws, e.g. wrong file format, inability to hear presenter, will be rejected.

(5) No longer than five minutes.  Videos of longer than 5 minutes will be rejected.

(6) No larger than 100 mb in size. Videos larger than 100 mb must be compressed when submitted or will be rejected.

(7) Submitted in one of the follow file types:
(a) .MP4 (ipod/psp)
(b) .MPEG
(c) .FLV (adobe flash)
(d) .SWF (shockwave flash)
(e) .3GP (cell phones)
(f) .AVI (windows)
(g) .MOV (mac)
(h) .MKV (h.264)

(8) Accompanied by a Word document that includes the following information.
a) Your full name, email address and academic affiliation.
b) Full name(s), email(s) and academic affiliation(s) of any other people that appear in the video.
c) Title of the video.
d) Video file name.
e) File type & size.
f) Confirmation that you accept the Official Rules of the contest.

(9) Saved using the same file name, e.g. AN_Other.doc and AN_Other.mp4 (please do not use spaces between words in the file name as you will not be able to download these onto the FTP site).

Submissions should be made to: ftp://anonymous.elsevier.com/elsevier-in/NeuroImage
(if you have any problems please cut and paste the URL into your browser).

Terms and Conditions

Elsevier NeuroImage Video Advisor Contest | Official Rules.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning.

Introduction.

The Elsevier NeuroImage Video Advisor Contest ("Contest") is sponsored by Elsevier Inc., 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010-1710, USA ("Sponsor").  

1. Timing.

The Contest begins Monday, September 23, 2009, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends Monday, November 30, 2009, at 11:59 p.m. ET ("Contest Period"). Sponsor’s servers and clock shall serve as the official clock for the Contest.  

2. Eligibility.

The Contest is open to current PhD students and Post-doctoral level researchers in good standing in the field of neuroimaging who are at least eighteen (18) years of age at the time of entry.  Entrants may be subject to rules imposed by their institution relative to their participation in trade promotions and editorial involvement with third party publications and should check with their institution for any relevant policies. Contest is subject to all relevant federal, state and local laws and regulations.  Residents of the following countries are ineligible to participate: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.  In addition residents of the province of Quebec are ineligible to participate. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Employees, officers and directors of Sponsor, its parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, and their advertising and promotion agencies, internet sites and other media used to promote the Contest, as well as the immediate family (defined as parents, spouse, children, siblings and grandparents) and household members of each such employee, officer or director not eligible to enter. By participating, entrant agrees to abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding in all respects, agrees to be bound by the decision of the judges, and warrants that he/she is eligible to participate in the Contest.

3. How to Enter.

Submit your own video for the Contest (“Video Submission”) prior to the close of the Contest Period and through the Sponsor’s FTP web site at ftp://anonymous.elsevier.com/elsevier-in/NeuroImage (“Sponsor’s Web Site”). If you have any problems please cut and paste the URL into your browser. It is essential that each Video Submission complies with the “Submission Checklist” prior to submission and by entering the Contest you are accepting these terms and conditions and also YouTube's Terms of Use at   http://www.youtube.com/t/terms.  The Sponsor will not provide verification of receipt of entries. Automated entries are prohibited and any use of such devices will cause disqualification.    Contest entries, including Video Submissions, are the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Proof of submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by Sponsor.

LIMIT: ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.

4. Video Submission Checklist.

Videos Submissions must conform to these criteria. Failure to do so will lead to the Contest entry not being considered for the Contest. The Video Submission must therefore be:

(1) Related to a recently published research article (this is not limited to work published in NeuroImage) or a current, topical controversy directly relevant to the field of neuroimaging.

(2) Presented so that the subject covered is of interest to a wider neuroimaging audience.

(3) Delivered in a presentation style that best communicates significance and relevance of the work, and can include talking to camera, interviews, panel discussions, neuroimaging videos, PowerPoint presentations, etc.

(4) Submitted as final, web-ready files, i.e. no further editing will be done. Files that present significant flaws, e.g. wrong file format, inability to hear presenter, will be rejected.

(5) No longer than five minutes.  Videos of longer than 5 minutes will be rejected.

(6) No larger than 100 mb in size. Videos larger than 100 mb must be compressed when submitted or will be rejected.

(7) Submitted in one of the follow file types:
(a)    .MP4 (ipod/psp)
(b)    .MPEG
(c)    .FLV (adobe flash)
(d)    .SWF (shockwave flash)
(e)    .3GP (cell phones)
(f)     .AVI (windows)
(g)    .MOV (mac)
(h)    .MKV (h.264)

(8) Accompanied by a Word document that includes the following information.
a)      Your full name, email address and academic affiliation.
b)      Full name(s), email(s) and academic affiliation(s) of any other people that appear in the video.   
c)       Title of the video.
d)      Video file name.
e)      File type & size.
f)       Confirmation that you accept the Official Rules of the Contest.

(9) Saved using the same file name, e.g. AN_Other.doc and AN_Other.mp4.

5. Selection of Winners.

Evaluation criteria are as follows:

(1) Subject matter chosen
(2) Quality of verbal presentation
(3) Quality of video presentation 

There will be up to six [6] winners selected from all eligible entries based on the evaluation criteria above by a panel of judges made up from the NeuroImage Editorial Board which includes the Editor-in-Chief plus representatives from key sections within NeuroImage (i.e. Anatomy & Physiology, Methods & Modelling, Cognitive Neuroscience and Systems Neuroscience), as well we ensuring that each of the key areas in the field are covered, i.e. neuroscience, physics, mathematics and computational science.

6. Prize.

Each winner will receive an invitation to be appointed ‘Video Advisor’ to NeuroImage, commencing on January 1, 2010 through to 30 September 2010 and a one-year print subscription to NeuroImage (approximate retail value for students: US$186).  The appointment provides an exciting opportunity to help shape new content for and network within the research community.

7.  Notice to Winners.

Each potential winner of the Contest will be notified by email on or about Friday, December 18, 2009 and may be required to execute an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release and acknowledgement.  Executed documents must be returned within fifteen (15) days of date of notification. If the executed documents are not received within fifteen (15) days, the potential winner will be disqualified, the Prize will be forfeited, and an alternate potential winner may be chosen.  In the event of a dispute as to the identity of any entrant, the authorized account holder of the e-mail address and/or telephone number, as relevant, used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. At the sole discretion of Sponsor, potential winners may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned an e-mail address and/or telephone number, as relevant, by an Internet access provider, online service provider, wireless carrier or other organization responsible for assigning such email address and/or telephone number.

8. Additional Terms and Conditions Governing Contest

Sponsor and its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotions agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors, “Promotion Entities”) assume no responsibility for cancellation due to labor strike, industry conditions, commercial viability, or any other cause.

9.  Right to Use Entries

By entering the Contest, entrants grant Sponsor a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide right and license to reproduce, publish, display, host and otherwise use their Video Submission and submitted entries, credited with entrant's full name, online and in any other media for purposes of exhibition, advertising, publicity and promotion of the Contest and the Sponsor's publications and products, without additional compensation or permission, unless prohibited by law.

10.  Original Work

Entrant represents and warrants that the entrant owns the full rights to the Video Submission and other submitted material and has obtained any and all necessary consents, permissions, approvals and licenses to create and submit the material and comply with these Official Rules, and that the submitted entry is the entrant's original work, has not been previously published, released or distributed, was created using licensed software, and does not infringe any third party rights or violate any laws or regulations.  Entries that contain any profane or obscene text or images will be disqualified at the sole discretion of the Sponsor.

11. Publicity.

Except where prohibited, acceptance of a prize constitutes consent on the part of each Winner to Sponsor's use of  Winner's name, likeness, photograph, institutional affiliation, address (city and state) for advertising, publicity and promotional purposes in any media without further consent, payment, or other consideration.

12. General Conditions.

Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest if fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond Sponsor's reasonable control impairs the integrity of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.  Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest, or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately damage Sponsor's Web Site or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may constitute a violation of criminal and civil laws and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek compensatory and punitive damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor's failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

13. RELEASE.

BY ENTERING THE CONTEST, THE ENTRANT AGREES TO RELEASE AND HOLD HARMLESS PROMOTION ENTITIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY CLAIM, COSTS, LOSSES, LIABILITIES, DAMAGES OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST, USE OF THE CONTEST ENTRY OR RECEIPT OR USE OF ANY PRIZE and for any claims based on publicity rights, defamation or invasion of privacy.

14. Limitations of Liability.

Neither Sponsor, its parent, subsidiary and affiliate companies, nor its advertising and promotion agencies shall be responsible for: (1) incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information or late, lost, stolen, illegible, incomplete, or misdirected entries, or entries received through impermissible or illegitimate channels, all of which will be disqualified; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, the malfunctioning of any telephone, computer, network, hardware or software; (3) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any service; (4) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process of the Contest; (5) electronic or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest or the processing of entries; or (6) any injury or damage to persons or property, including, but not limited to, entrant's computer, which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant's participation in the Prize Promotion or from downloading any material from Sponsor's Web Site, regardless of whether the material was prepared by Sponsor, or a third party, and regardless of whether the material is connected to Sponsor's Web Site by a hypertext link. IN NO EVENT WILL THE SPONSOR OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR ASSIGNS BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF ANY ACCESS TO AND/OR USE OF THE SPONSOR’S WEB SITE, THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM THE SPONSOR’S WEB SITE, THE REMOVAL FROM THE SPONSOR’S WEB SITE OF, OR DISCONTINUATION OF ACCESS TO, ANY MATERIALS, OR THE ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE, OR MISUSE OF, OR ANY HARM RESULTING FROM THE ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE OR MISUSE OF, OR PARTICIPATION IN, ANY PRIZE AWARDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEST. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE CONTEST, ALL PRIZES, AND ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE SPONSOR’S WEB SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

15. Consent to Use of Personal Data.

Submission of entry constitutes consent for Sponsor to use entrant’s e-mail address or telephone number, as relevant, and other submitted contact information for purposes of marketing and promotion of Sponsor’s products and services to entrant.

16. Non-Endorsement.

The use of any non-Sponsors' registered trademarks, service marks, logos, or other marks in connection with the Contest  or any Prize is not intended by Sponsor to imply the endorsement of the respective owner(s) of such marks, or any affiliation of the respective owner(s) of such marks with the Sponsor’s Web Site or the Contest.

17. Severability.

If any provision of these Official Rules is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Official Rules and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

18. Winner's List: For the names of Prize winners, send an e-mail to: NeuroImage_Publisher@elsevier.com, subject line: “Elsevier NeuroImage Video Advisor Contest" Winner's List. Requests for winners' list must be received by December 31, 2009.