OHDSI Symposium 2015 - CALL FOR POSTERS

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I’m happy to announce that the OHDSI Symposium Organizing Committee is now accepting submission abstracts for poster presentations at the first annual OHDSI Symposium to be held on October 20th, 2015 in Washington DC.

Details on submission guidelines, topics of interest and how to apply can be found here:
http://www.ohdsi.org/ohdsi-symposium-2015-call-for-posters/

The submission deadline is September 7th, 2015

If you have any questions, please contact me at beaton@ohdsi.org

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Given that Monday, September 7th is a holiday, the deadline for abstract submissions has been changed to Tuesday, September 8th.

To submit, please upload your abstracts to the OHDSI Library: http://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=resources:ohdsi_symposium_2015_poster_submissions

(An abstract submission template and poster template are also available at the above link)

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@MauraBeaton - we can submit abstracts or poster drafts, correct?

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Also @MauraBeaton do we need an ABSTRACT and CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT on the poster?

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@ericaVoss -
Re: Submission - Only the abstract is required for submission
Re: Poster - Yes, successful poster submissions should include both an abstract and conflict of interest statement

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I was confused exactly where to submit and did it in two places:

  1. I followed these directions and added here (but no one else seems to have put it here - maybe I am failing to read the directions properly): http://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=resources:ohdsi_library
  2. I saw some people posting here too: http://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=resources:ohdsi_symposium_2015_poster_submissions

I also wanted to try the arxiv.org that @hripcsa mentioned under Quantitative Biology. In setting it up I just picked the licenses “arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article”. The part I’m stuck on now is having an endorser.

Anyone on arXiv and want to be my endorsement? :slight_smile:

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I am an active arXiv endorser and am happy to help and endorse OHDSI work.

As a side-note: arXiv focuses on full-length papers, not abstracts.

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@hripcsa / @MauraBeaton - Marc has kindly endorsed me so I could submit. Would you like me to try submitting the abstract to arXiv? Marc seems to indicate this is not appropriate to submit an abstract however do I recall you mentioning something that you believe we can use arXiv in this manner.

I’m open to vetting this process . . . but want to make sure it is something you want to push forward on.

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I don’t know but I think we should try it. It is not really an abstract (eg, 150 words) but a 2-page paper with potential figures and references. So it may in fact qualify. George

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submitting a pre-print to an archive is a new experience for me so I
looked up some pre-print policies with JAMIA and Oxford Journals:

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/access-purchase/rights-and-permissions/self-archiving-policyc.html

It looks fairly safe in terms of not limiting the potential for future
acceptance by a journal. However, it seems that the intention is for
full journal article manuscripts that are ready for peer review to be
submitted. Erica’s 2-pager is not manuscript for journal submission so I
wonder if it would better to consider submitting it, and the other
“abstracts”, to CUER workshop proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/. Here is
their policy: http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html

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I posted it last night and only have today to take it down. I just took it down just incase we decide to take another approach.

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Perhaps it is too quick to figure this out for this iteration of the Symposium. In general, I think it is a good approach for OHDSI, and the next step would be to create a more relevant category. I think quantitative medicine was one suggestion (even if it is under quantitative biology).

George