Conference-management platform
Interested in capturing and displaying scholarship from conferences or symposia?
Need help managing calls for papers, online submissions, and peer-review workflows?
Our new conference-management platform can accommodate one-time-only and repeat scholarly events, large multi-track events and single session symposia, new content as well as content from past events. This service is part of a larger one at the Libraries to help advance scholarly publishing. All proceedings managed on this platform are accessible through Iowa Research Online, a dynamic archive of the research produced by faculty, researchers, and students, from published articles in peer-reviewed journals to presentations, theses, dissertations, and unpublished papers.
Our services include:
- software demonstrations and training
- creating a customized web site for your event, hosted by Iowa Research Online
- migrating conference proceedings into your site
- helping you draft copyright guidelines
- offering long-term digital preservation
- managing software upgrades and customer support
Types of conferences supported:
- academic conferences sponsored by a University of Iowa department, research unit, or center
- professional and scholarly society conferences organized by University of Iowa faculty and staff
Using our software, you can:
- accept online submissions and assign them to event managers
- manage and publish schedules, including multi-track events
- simplify management of the peer-review process by tracking reviewer activity, automatically emailing appropriate reminders, and allowing for anonymous correspondence between reviewer and submitter
- publish an iCal-compatible program schedule
- export content to submit to printer for bound programs
- publish conference papers, proceedings, and abstracts as fully indexed and searchable PDFs
- include non-print media such as images, audio, and video
- offer e-mail alerts, RSS feeds, and calendar synching to participants/attendees
- allow presenters/participants to upload their own supplementary material before/during/after the conference
- generate usage reports
Getting started:
To schedule a consultation, contact your subject liaison or Digital Research & Publishing at lib-ir@uiowa.edu.
Sampling of conference sites we host:
Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates
http://ir.uiowa.edu/icru
CONTENTdm Midwest Users Group Annual Meetings
http://ir.uiowa.edu/cdm_mw2010
