January 2025

On February 13, the first-listed author of each paper to be presented during the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting—whether in a paper session, roundtable session, poster session, structured poster session, or a virtual i-Presentation—will receive an email invitation to create their presentation for display in the AERA i-Presentation Gallery.

The email invitation (which will come from “Presentation Gallery <presentation-gallery@aera.net>") will provide authors with information about how to log in and create a presentation.

AERA will once again provide guidance for authors who are creating i-Presentations. Live training sessions (“Creating an i-Presentation”) will be held on March 5 and March 12 with the platform innovators and AERA staff. Session times will be announced soon. These sessions will be recorded. To learn more about the i-Presentation Gallery, visit the AERA website.

The AERA i-Presentation Gallery, first introduced in 2020, is an open access product that features thousands of presentations from AERA annual meeting papers. To date, there are more than 10,700 annual meeting presentations in the Gallery. All presentations receive digital object identifiers (DOIs), which make them more easily discoverable and citable.

The i-Presentation Gallery provides an opportunity for authors of accepted annual meeting papers to take advantage of a user-friendly resource with a dynamic and expansive range of options for displaying their presentation content. All authors are encouraged to create an i-Presentation. However, if they wish, authors can also use PowerPoint, Keynote, or other software to create their presentation and easily upload it to the Gallery. Those who use the i-Presentation Gallery are also encouraged to record an overall narration and upload it as part of their presentation so that virtual attendees can benefit from a pre-recorded overview of the work.

Papers in the Gallery are accessible to all Annual Meeting registrants only immediately before and during the conference. Attendees can contact authors to set up chats, and authors have the opportunity to schedule one-on-one or group conversations on the platform. Those who choose to do so can schedule a time to chat or hold their live video presentation through the Gallery, using meeting services like Zoom or Webex. A short period after the Annual Meeting—after authors have a chance to review their work—the Gallery goes open access to viewers around the word.

At this year’s Annual Meeting in Denver, poster session and structured poster session presenters will present and discuss their posters on large-format touchscreen monitors in scheduled sessions to be held in the area dedicated to poster sessions. Those interested in papers accepted for virtual presentation, can go into the Gallery directly as soon as it opens.