Submissions

This journal is not accepting submissions at this time.

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 (300 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.
  • 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.

Author Guidelines

The Access Conference Programming 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 (Conference Presentation, Lightning Talk, Multi-Speaker Panel or Workshop/Hackfest Activity) 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 conference proposal.

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

Presentations (15 min. + 5 min. for questions)

Demos, case studies, original research, theory, practice, etc.
Have another idea? Propose it!

Lightning Talks (5 min)

Share new projects, research ideas, or any conference-related topic in a concise and engaging format.

Multi-speaker Panel (45 min. + 15 min. for questions)

These should be self-organized. We encourage sessions demonstrating perspectives from multiple organizations.

Workshop or Hackfest Activity (1 - 3 hour)

Propose a workshop or hackfest activity you would like to lead or the topic of a workshop you'd like to attend. Any conference-related topic is welcome. Half-day workshops should be 1-3 hours in length.

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