May 2025

While the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting has passed, accepted authors still have an opportunity to upload or update their papers in the AERA Online Paper Repository and their presentations in the AERA i-Presentation Gallery. The deadline for authors to participate or polish their work for the Online Paper Repository and the i-Presentation Gallery is June 30, 11:59 p.m. PT. Both platforms will become open access with 2025 Annual Meeting papers and presentations on August 15.

“Both of these platforms offer significant opportunities for authors engaged in scholarly work,” said AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine. “The Repository and the Gallery provide authors with wide dissemination to others interested in their work, and users have ongoing access to discover the important work of authors. In addition, each of these products provides authors with authenticated citations to their work.” 

The AERA meetings team will send all accepted authors detailed instructions on how to upload and update their papers and presentations on the platforms.

The Online Paper Repository is an open access clearinghouse with abstracts of all scientific presentations given at AERA annual meetings since 2010. More than half of these records include full-text papers voluntarily contributed to the repository by Annual Meeting presenters. It allows work to be shared with open access and a broader audience than those attending the session; it records in a permanent online archive the full text of authors’ work; and it includes a digital object identifier (DOI), a persistent identifier that makes authors’ work easier to discover, locate, and cite.

Parallel to the Repository, the open access AERA i-Presentation Gallery is a web-based digital platform where researchers can share their work in various interactive formats, enhancing discoverability and engagement. Since 2020, the Gallery has ensured that research presentations given at annual meetings remain accessible and influential long after the events themselves. Each i-presentation published in the Gallery receives a unique DOI, which authenticates the presentation and enhances its citable value. Also, the Gallery provides a vehicle for presentation authors and others interested in a paper to chat via text or video or to send messages.  

For those who have already uploaded their final papers to the Repository or published their final presentations in the Gallery, there are no additional steps needed to ensure their inclusion when both platforms launch publicly on August 15.