Evaluating features of scientific conferences: A call for improvements

Sarvenaz Sarabipour; Benjamin Schwessinger; Fiona N. Mumoki; Aneth D. Mwakilili; Aziz Khan; Humberto J. Debat; Pablo J. Sáez; Samantha Seah; Tomislav Mestrovic

Additionally, there are a number of channels on preprint servers such as bioRxiv specific for preprinting conference proceedings, other preprint servers such as OSFramework can follow suit. In the case of digital conferences, all research materials such as abstracts, videos of talks . CC-BY 4.0 International license author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.02.022079 doi: bioRxiv preprint and posters and presentation slides can be uploaded to Zenodo (with a Digital Object Identification or DOI) and protocols can be uploaded on protocols.io. Having all research products uploaded to a free open access online platform as part of a digital conference does not entail extra work and researchers can invite and review comments on site or via peerreview platforms such as PREreview (90, 91) . Researchers can also cite these outputs on their manuscripts and curriculum vitae. Digital libraries of abstracts, talks and poster presentations allow less privileged researchers unable to attend these meetings to discover the advances presented at those events in real time.