A brief introduction to the features of the abstract management toolbox, designed to help you manage the submission, review and decision process for your academic or research conference.
The guidance below is for event administrators/ organisers. If you are an end user (eg. submitter, reviewer, delegate etc), please click here.
NB: The features highlighted in pink are NOT available (or are limited) in the FREE package. The FREE package also features Oxford Abstracts branding throughout.
The essential tools
Submission
- Collect unlimited abstracts
- Embed secure online submission forms on your website or in emails
- Choose from an extensive range of fully customisable question templates
- Infinite range of options to search, filter and download submissions
- Submitters can add content, and upload supporting documents in any file format, e.g. PDF, PowerPoint
- Admins can submit on behalf of a user
- Manage, view, delete, withdraw and edit submissions with ease on our intuitive interface
Reviewing
- Collect the review data you need for grading, comments and typical review functions
- Assign reviewers to submissions, or submissions to reviewers, individually or in bulk
- Clean, easy-to-navigate reviewer screen for simple, stress-free reviewer experience
- Monitor complete and incomplete reviews, with built-in follow up process
- Infinite range of options to search, view, filter and download reviews
- Reviewers can record a conflict of interest
Decisions
- Add acceptance types, questions and a range of input options
- Control the visibility of data for your committee
- Find data instantly with a multi-filter and search-friendly table
- Accept, reject and withdraw submissions, with integrated manual and automatic email notification
Communication
- Add admins, committee members, reviewers, API users with just their email address
- Schedule emails, or send manually
- Track email delivery
- Send individually, or in bulk
- Custom creation of automatic and manual emails for streamlined communication with submitters and all collaborators
- Add signatures to emails
- Add extra notification emails - a great solution if you need to cc emails to a secondary address
Publishing and reporting
- Create real-time abstract books from default templates
- Create real-time reports from default templates
- Filter and arrange submission, review and decision data for Excel report downloads
- Live updates for real-time downloads, any time you choose
- Quick click for indexes and country reports