EasyChair is a web-based conference management software system.
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: Comparison of EasyChair with other related systems (Appendix C, Related work). Workshop on Information Security Applications, 2007. It has been used since 2002 in the scientific community for tasks such as organising research paper submission and review. In 2012, EasyChair began offering an
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre o ...
online publication service for
conference proceeding
In academia and librarianship, conference proceedings is a collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference or workshop. Conference proceedings typically contain the contributions made by researchers at the conferen ...
s.
Description
EasyChair is a paid web-based conference management software system used, among other tasks, to organise paper submission and review,
similar to other event management
system software
System software is software designed to provide a platform for other software. Examples of system software include operating systems (OS) like macOS, Linux, Android and Microsoft Windows, computational science software, game engines, search engin ...
such as
OpenConf. EasyChair is hosted by the
Department of Computer Science at the
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The university owns and operates majo ...
. It is owned by an English company.
The EasyChair website also provides an
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre o ...
online publication service for
conference proceeding
In academia and librarianship, conference proceedings is a collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference or workshop. Conference proceedings typically contain the contributions made by researchers at the conferen ...
s. When launched in 2012, the service was for
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...
only, but in 2016 it was expanded to all sciences.
History
The EasyChair software has been in continuous development since 2002. , the code base consist of nearly 300,000 lines of code, and it has been used by more than 41,000 conferences. EasyChair has been widely used since 2002 in the scientific community, with more than two and a half million users reported in 2019.
See also
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Abstract management
Abstract management is the process of accepting and preparing abstracts for presentation at an academic conference. The process consists of either invited or proffered submissions of the abstract or summary of work. The abstract typically states t ...
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Academic conference
An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals ...
References
External links
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Academic conferences
Web applications
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Abstract management software
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