ScholarWorks at WMU: Events or Conferences
This is a guide to help people understand and use WMU's scholarly repository.
Events at WMU
Events at other institutions
- Conference on University Education in Natural ResourcesBiennial conference from Utah State.
- Institutional Repository DayUsed as main Web page for event with links to program including sessions and posters from Utah State.
- John Wesley Powell Student Reserach ConferenceThis is an annual conference held at Illinois Wesleyan since 1990. Full text of papers available.
- Library Technology ConferenceExample of annual event from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
- Marquette Law Review ConferencesSeries of symposia by Marquette University's law review.
- Wood Structures SymposiumThis is a post conference page, but you can see the links to the different presentations by topic and the original schedule of the symposium. It looks like under each presentation, there is a PDF of the presentation in the proceedings. From U Mass Amherst.
Managing events or conferences in ScholarWorks
Scholarworks can host the content of conferences, symposia, proceedings and other events. The system can provide a way to:
- Submit proposals
- Send proposals out to reviewers
- Organize the presentations into days, times, tracks
- Dislplay the event program or schedule online
- Add papers, presentations and/or handouts to the abstracts after the event
- Publish proceedings after the event
- Link out to third party vendors that provide event registration
To set up an event:
- Contact Maira Bundza - maira.bundza@wmich.edu
- Fill out a Set-up Form for Event Communities
- Fill out the Event Community Customization Questionnaire (you may use your own logo and/or banner and customize some other aspects of the page)
- Send in forms and set up a time to be trained by the Digital Commons (our platform) support staff - support@dc.bepress.com
The cost? $0 - part of the ScholarWorks package - just your time and effort
