Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Proposal (250 words maximum) in a .doc or rich text file format. Your proposal should describe your topic and include a sentence or two and let us know what do you want people to take away from your session.
  • Double check your proposal has no personal or institutional identifying information before submitting. Please follow the guidelines at ensuring an anonymous review
  • A title, abstract (50 words or less), and up to two keywords that describe your proposal. The keywords and abstract will help us assign peer reviewers and will be used in the conference program. Don't worry, you'll have the opportunity to edit these later if need be.
  • Interested in peer reviewing proposals? You can indicate that when you register for an account or by editing your existing user profile.
  • We are planning an in-person event this year, but recognize the pandemic continues to bring uncertainty. Please indicate your preference for delivering the presentation you are proposing by typing 'In-person' 'Remotely' or 'No preference' in the 'Comments for the Editor' field.

Author Guidelines

The Access Conference Program Committee is using the Open Journal Systems software to manage the conference submission and peer review workflows. 

To submit a proposal: 

1. Register for an account on the Access Conference Proceedings site.  At this point, you'll also be able to indicate if you'd like to review submissions (and we encourage you to!)

2. Make a new submission. Select which section (Presentation or Lightning Talk) you'd like your proposal to be considered for and verify you have all the pieces of your proposal ready. 

3. Upload a file that includes your anonymized & blinded conference proposal as this is what we'll be sending to the reviewers. Not sure what that means? We've got some guidelines up for ensuring an anonymous review.

4. Enter in the metadata for your submission (title, abstract, and keywords) and add the contact information for any contributors. 

Lightning Talks

Want to show off a new project, introduce a hypothesis or just have something to say? These 5 min lightning talks are the perfect place to get in front of an audience and get your idea out there. These sessions will not be peer-reviewed.

Workshop

Propose a workshop you would like to lead or the topic of a workshop you'd like to attend. Any conference-related topic is welcome. Innovative approaches are welcome. Half-day workshops should be 1-3 hours in length and proposals will be peer reviewed.

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