Virtual conferences raise standards for accessibility and interactions.

ABSTRACT: Scientific conferences have an important role in the exchange of ideas and knowledge within the scientific community. Conferences also provide early-career researchers with opportunities to make themselves known within their field of research. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has brought traditional in-person conferences to a halt for the foreseeable future, the growth of virtual conferences has highlighted many of the disadvantages associated with the in-person format and demonstrated the advantages of moving these events online. Here, based on data from in-person and virtual conferences in a range of subjects, we describe how virtual conferences are more inclusive, more affordable, less time-consuming and more accessible worldwide, especially for early-career researchers. Making conference

SUBMITTER: Sarabipour S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7641586 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature