Procter & Gamble (P&G) has made an educational grant to support World Dental Posters, a site that gives scientific researchers the opportunity to upload their peer-reviewed posters at no cost for as long as they wish.
World Dental Posters is an open-access site that was launched in March 2013. Typically, peer-reviewed posters are presented at industry congresses, conferences, and meetings or through subscription-based journals; this new site gives authors another channel to present their findings. The site also provides citable references that informed the research, without losing copyright protection for the individual authors.
Posters uploaded to World Dental Posters are indexed by title, author name(s), and key words and can remain on the site for free as long as desired. Future developments will include forum and discussion areas to connect researchers with similar interests and ideas from different geographic locations who might otherwise be unaware of each other's work.
