Quick question for any academics on my friends list

[susie_flo]

Dearest boffins, do any of you have time to respond to a couple of Qs below on the way that conference paper submissions are handled?  If so, that would be fabuloso! 

Specifically...

Q1.  When you submit abstracts and papers for academic conferences, what are the usual mechanisms or systems that you use to submit them?  (Is it different every time, depending on who is organising the conference?)

Q2.  If you ever happen to run conferences, do you use any software or online services to receive and review all of the submissions?

Q3. I've found a random selection of conference paper management systems online (see below)  ...do any of these ring a bell?


PaperPlaza Conference/Journal Management System
http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl

PROSE Publication Review and Organisation System
http://www.prosemanager.co.uk/prose.php

Easy Chair Conference System
http://www.easychair.org/easychair.cgi

Oxford Abstracts
http://www.oxfordabstracts.com/default.aspx

WebMeets Event Management LLP
http://webmeets.com/EventManagement/

Conference Maker
http://editorialexpress.com/conference/

Academics
http://www.acamedics.com/submedic.html

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Different every time -- of those I've used easychair before and it's OK.

The main one I come across is EDAS
http://edas.info/

Really quite nice and seems to be the established system of choice in my field. Other journals and conferences have their own hacked up things -- often they're very very idiotic. Usually though edas or easychair is what's used.

When I've run small workshops (30 or so participants 6 papers) there's no need for something like that. Larger conferences would definitely do with it though.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Thanks - that's v. helpful, especially about EDAS. (I had not looked at it properly because it has one of those dreadful websites that makes you create a login before you can see anything).

[steer.livejournal.com]

You can see documentation here
http://edas.info/doc/

It's very much science geared I think -- sets up a TPC (technical program committee) for example -- not sure arts/humanities don't call that something else.

I take it you're running a conference then?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh, fab thanks! (I'm doing a bit of analysis for one of our academic departments - they want to adopt a better solution for conference paper submissions and management.)