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Upload Your Papers and Presentations

While it’s important for your session colleagues to have session details to review in advance during the Virtual Research Meeting, it’s also important for conference attendees to be able to peruse session details and papers as they decide which sessions to attend. All authors should submit their papers by January 25, 2024.

Upload Your Paper to the Submission System →

To upload your paper:

  1. Log into the Virtual Research Meeting Online Program.
  2. Click “Sign In” on the left-hand side and log in using your APSA credentials.
  3. Click “Submission System Menu” on the left-hand side.
  4. Under the the Submitter Menu, click “View Submissions/Upload Papers.”
  5. If you were the original proposal submitter, select the “Submissions” tab. If you are either 1) not the original submitter but are an author on the paper or 2) a Research Group workshop participant, you can find the link to upload your paper under the “Participations” tab instead.
  6. Click the “Upload” link in the far right action column to upload your paper for the relevant session.
    • Supported document formats for upload: Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, Word Perfect, Plain Text, and Rich Text Format (RTF). All uploads will be converted to Adobe Acrobat format. Please allow the site 72 hours to convert and display your upload.
  7. Choose your file to upload.
  8. Click “Upload and Continue” in the bottom right corner. After uploading, you will receive an email confirmation of your document submission within 24 hours.

Research group participants with documents they wish to share should reach out to their Research Group Organizer to circulate them.

To download papers:

  1. Log into the Virtual Research Meeting Online Program.
  2. Find the session that you are interested in, then select it by clicking on the title.
  3. If there are available downloads, you’ll see a “Download” button at the top of the session information (to the right of the “Add to Personal Schedule” button), along with how many downloads there are. When you click this button, it will display the paper that is available for download. Papers that are not yet available for download will be grayed out.

Upload Your Virtual Conference Papers to APSA Preprints

APSA Preprints is a free-to-submit and access, pre-publication platform dedicated to early research outputs in political science and related disciplines. Upload your conference paper to APSA Preprints to share your work with peers, obtain a DOI, get feedback, track metrics, and prepare for journal submission.

To submit your 2024 Virtual Research Meeting conference paper or presentation, simply login to APSA Preprints 
to APSA Preprints with your APSA ID. Prior to uploading, be sure to check out the submission guide.

Why APSA Preprints? Here’s Why…

✓ Uploading your paper increases the impact of your early research by making your work discoverable and citable sooner. Papers on APSA Preprints now have over half a million abstract views, 340,000 downloads, and have been cited over 500 times!

✓ It is free, quick, and easy to upload your conference paper, working paper, presentation, and/or poster, using your APSA ID.

✓ More than 1,000 papers from every subfield of political science are available now on APSA Preprints.

✓ Continue the conversation from the research meeting by utilizing our commenting feature, the ability to upload new versions of your work, one-click journal submission, and automatic linking once the work is published in any journal.

✓  Reach a wider community for Public Engagement because your work will be rapidly and freely available. APSA Preprints have been cited in the New York Times, USA Today, and many other media sources.

Upload Your Paper to Preprints →