Editorial Policies

Archive Access Policy

This conference has an open archive access policy - anyone can read the approved abstracts once reviews are completed and authors have confirmed participation.

Commenting is only permitted by users with accounts. The Conference Organizers reserve the right to remove comments that contain offensive language, spam, posting of sales promotions or any comments which are deemed to be counter productive to the open and equal dialogue that we are hoping to continue with this symposia series. Any users who post such comments will be removed from the system.

 

Reviewer's Criteria

The reviewers judge on basic overall standards of clarity, quality, content, originality, and relevance to the conference theme. Full papers accepted at this conference will be assessed as meeting the above criteria and also the following characterisation for research publications:

  • substance of scholarly activity, as evidenced by discussion of the relevant literature, an awareness of the history and antecedents of work described, and provided in a format which allows a reader to trace sources of the work, including through citations and footnotes
  • originality (i.e. not a compilation of existing works, unless such a compliation makes a contribution to the research)
  • veracity/validity through a peer validation process or by satisfying the commercial publisher processes increasing the stock of knowledge
  • being in a form that enables dissemination of knowledge.
Please note that the Reviewers will not consider papers that promote commercial products and/or services.

Reviewers expect authors to have familiarized themselves with the information provide in About the Conference, as well as the general information about the Summer Institute here.

 

How to prepare your paper and submit it

There are three basic steps to submitting your paper to the Symposium:

  1. First: copy your paper into the provided MS Word template.To download this file you need to right-click here(on MAC use control-click) and save the file to your computer;
  2. Second: create your user id by adding your personal information into the online system and receive your login id and password by email. If you already have a user id, this is when you should confirm your profile is current; and
  3. Third: Add your abstract, other authors (if applicable), identifiers and upload your paper.
The following detailed instructions are a guide through these three items. You may wish to print this page in order to follow along:
Step One
  1. Download the MS Word template here by right-clicking (on MAC use control-click) and saving the file to your computer. You are asked to use this template for your submission to assist the reviewers and also to expedite the final publication of your paper. If you do not have access to MS Word, please email us at conferences@ierg.net for alternatives.

  2. Your name must only appear on the first page of your paper. Please do not include your name in the header or footer of the document or your paper cannot be considered for blind review.

  3. For citations, APA guidelines are encouraged. This is in order to aid the ease of interface with the Word template used by our system.

  4. Please save your file using your last name - for example, smith.doc. Reviewers do not see the file name.
Step Two
  1. The first step of the Online System is to create your personal entry in the database.
    If you have submitted to another conference on this website (Australia 2008 or Summer Institute etc.) please click here to login. Be sure the box is checked beside "AUTHOR: Able to submit items to the conference." Go to Step Three below.

    If you have NOT submitted to another conference on this website click here
    • Click on the hyperlink "Not a user? Create an account with this site". You will be taken to a page to fill in all of your personal and institutional information.
    • At the bottom of the form, be sure to check the box beside: "Create account as Author: Able to submit items to the conference."
Step Three
You should be at "USER HOME"
  1. Click on the word 'AUTHOR' under the conference identifier (3rd Annual Research Symposium)

  2. You should now see the heading 'ACTIVE SUBMISSIONS'. This page will eventually list your proposals. Look towards the bottom of the page for the hyperlink to click on "Step one of the submission process"

  3. By clicking on that hyperlink, you will be taken step by step through the submission process:
    • Confirm that you have addressed the author reminders
    • Agree to copyright
    • Choose a conference track
    • "Save and Continue" to proceed

  4. Enter your proposal information (called "Metadata")

  5. Upload your paper submission (and appendices if that applies to you). If you are not ready to submit your paper, you may use the 'save and continue' button at the bottom of the page. You will be asked to confirm that you wish to proceed without submitting a paper. Choosing "Yes" will take you to the next step.Be sure to return to submit your paper before the April 28th deadline

  6. You may upload supplementary files such as data sets etc. or use the 'save and continue' button at the bottom of the page to go to the last step.

  7. Click on 'FINISH SUBMISSION' to complete your submission to the Reviewers. If you choose 'CANCEL' at this (or any) step in this process your submission will be saved but will not reach the reviewers. Use this method if you think you will need to make changes before April 28th.


Congratulations on successfully submitting your paper to review!



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