Your physical programme template may have served you well over the years, but it needs reshaping to be ready for a virtual event.
Your physical programme template may have served you well over the years, but it needs reshaping to be ready for a virtual event.
The role of reviewing is to help the conference Chairs decide on whether to accept or reject papers or abstracts. Up to now, the most common forms of reviewing has been the single or double-blind review, where the authors don’t know who the reviewers are. However, the idea of using an open peer review system…
The best reviewers are the experts in a particular field with years of research under their belts. But where does the next generation of reviewers come from?
As it evolves from passing thought to (world-changing) publication, research develops through a series of stages, as written by Dr. Deirdre Duffy. Normally these include: Defining the parameters of the project (i.e. what you are not talking about); Identifying a research question (something which, as any researcher will tell you, takes a lot longer than…
Authors don’t just submit to a conference to get reviewed – the core aim of many is to get their work published. Many conferences, especially the likes of a medical conference, tend to submit work to a Medical Journal for publishing after conference proceedings. In most cases, they need the author’s permission. But how do…
In our previous posts we’ve looked at how organisers can save admin time in Abstract Submission, Peer Review and Accepting and Notifying Authors. We are nearly there! However, significant time savings can still be found in the final time trap – Collecting Conference Material. At this stage, authors submit the final corrected versions of their abstract/paper, plus other material…
In the first 2 posts in this series, we’ve looked at the admin time savings a chair can make in Abstract Submission and Peer Review. This 3rd stage is the “Accept and Notify Authors” Stage. The conference has now reached the point where all the submissions have been reviewed, and the chair has to decide which abstracts to accept/reject…
