29.1393, Easy Abs: Serving Linguists around the World

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1393. Thu Mar 29 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1393, Easy Abs: Serving Linguists around the World

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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:14:29
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Easy Abs: Serving Linguists around the World

 
Dear Readers,

Last week, we shared some interesting statistics about EasyAbs, the free
service we provide for conference organizers. In the last ten years, over
1,300 conferences have used EasyAbs, with over 75,000 abstracts submitted in
that time!

Today we would like to share with you the testimonials of real-life conference
organizers who used EasyAbs to make their job a little easier. We want to
continue to provide this valuable service in years to come, so please, if you
haven't already, visit our Fund Drive homepage at
https://funddrive.linguistlist.org . We need your help to reach our goal in
order to fund EasyAbs and continue to support conference organizers like those
below:

"We used EasyAbs to manage the submissions and reviews of abstracts for the
Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, 2016.  We
were under funding constraints for the conference, so having this freely
available service was extremely helpful.  EasyAbs was, indeed, easy to use,
for those who submitted abstracts, for the reviewers, and for us as we
prepared the conference program.  EasyAbs streamlined the review process
significantly.  We are grateful that The Linguist List provides this wonderful
service."

- Mary Grantham O’Brien, University of Calgary; Tracey Derwing, University of
Alberta & Simon Fraser University.

“I was pleased with my experience using EasyAbs for managing abstract review.
The website is easy to interact with and the folks at LINGUIST List were
prompt and helpful whenever I had questions about the site. I will certainly
use it again.”

- Samson Lotven, Indiana University

“I’ve found EasyAbs to be an enormously useful tool when organising
conferences. Being able to manage the various aspects of abstract reviewing on
one site has made the process very efficient. I’m grateful to the LinguistList
for offering us the service without charge.”

- Beth Hume, University of Canterbury

“It is very useful for a conference organizer to be able to widely advertise
an upcoming event on Linguist List. Just a simple e-mail to the editors will
do to spread the news to the linguistics community. The EasyAbs service
deserves its name because it makes it really easy to organize the
practicalities around conference abstracts, both for organizers and
participants.

In particular, organizing the Nordic Prosody XII conference 2016 I enjoyed the
quick and smooth help from the list's conference support!”

- Wilm van Dommelen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

“We have used EasyAbs for our last two international conferences at Lancaster
University. It works very smoothly, and has been ideal for our needs in
dealing with quite large numbers of submissions and the subsequent review
process. We are really grateful for the provision of such an effective system
made available to the linguist list, and beyond, and we profoundly hope that
it continues to be a service to academics in our community - we'd like to use
it again for our next meeting!”

- Padraic Monaghan, Lancaster University

“We have used EasyAbs for several conferences now and we would use it again.
EasyAbs is a great tool, easy to handle and free, which might be especially
important for the organisers of smaller conferences such as ours.

EasyAbs is perfectly integrated with the LinguistList conference services
which helped us along the entire way from conference announcement to the call
for papers and the whole abstract submission and review process, to finally
announcing our programme on LinguistList. What’s particularly useful about
EasyAbs is that organisers and reviewers have independent access to the
abstracts and you can easily organise double-blind reviewing by assigning and
e-mailing reviewers etc. You can send Accept/Reject mails directly from the
facility and it even offers sample letters (which may help especially when you
aren’t a native speaker of English).

We think EasyAbs is a great service to the linguistics community. We would
recommend it to anyone organising a small- to medium-size conference.”

- Andrea Ender and Irmtraud Kaiser, Universität Salzburg

“I really recommend EasyAbs. It is an easy to use platform and the support is
great. It has made it much easier for us to upload and review abstracts for
our conference.”

- Julia Miller, president of AustraLex

“The Arabic Linguistics Society has benefited tremendously from the Linguist
List’s free EasyAbs tool in vetting abstracts for its annual symposia. The
system is user-friendly for the conference organizers, the authors, and the
reviewers. This takes, without a doubt, a lot of labor behind the scenes at
the Linguist List, and for that, we are truly grateful.”   

- Hamid Ouali (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Executive Director of the
Arabic Linguistics Society

“Easy Abs is a unique facility offered byLinguistList. From the very first
moment I undertook the organization of an international conference and judging
by the clear and neat way LinguistList's website is organized, I trusted Easy
Abs for a smooth conference program outcome. Easy Abs facilitates abstracts
uploading and the process of reviewers' selection, accelerates the review and
notification process, as well as the final program organization. All in all,
Easy Abs helps even the most hopeless conference (or event) organizer become
the greater conference (or event) host! Try it!”

- Marina Tzakosta, University of Crete







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