Choose a conference that connects your research with the right audience and supports its visibility, credibility, preservation and longer-term value, connects your research with the right audience and supports its visibility, credibility, preservation and longer-term value.
Find and assess a conference
Check that the conference theme, scope, audience, organisers, sponsors and venue align with your research and has an appropriate standing in your field. Review whether the abstract, paper or both will be peer reviewed and what type of paper will be published, for example, abstracts, full papers, peer-reviewed proceedings or journal special issues or collections. Also check if the proceedings are indexed, whether a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is assigned and what copyright and licence conditions apply.
Confirm how the work will be presented and published, whether proceedings include full papers or abstracts, whether they are indexed and what copyright and licence conditions apply. Consider registration, travel, accommodation, and available School, Institute or research centre funding.
Use Think. Check. Attend. to assess the event before submitting or registering.
Where relevant to your discipline, consult the CORE Rankings Portal.
Plan for visibility and preservation
Keep records that document your participation and any resulting publications, such as the program, acceptance correspondence, presentation materials, proceedings or DOI.
Where eligible, record the resulting research output in Research Profiles and Repository.
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