Typically, peer-reviewed posters are presented at industry congresses, conferences and meetings or through subscription-based journals – this site gives the 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.
Procter & Gamble (P&G), the makers of Crest and Oral-B, along with Stephen Hancocks Limited announced today that the open-access, scientific site, World Dental Posters (www.worlddentalposters.com), will now be sponsored through an educational grant from P&G.
Philip Giorgi, managing director and co-owner of Stephen Hancocks Limited, conceived the idea for World Dental Posters after seeing a pile of posters discarded at numerous international dental conferences and congresses. He realized there was an opportunity to identify a way to keep this research available for others to see around the world.
“We are delighted that P&G shares our vision for this free, open access site created as a way to disseminate research through posters beyond current possibilities,” said Philip Giorgi. “Providing researchers with the opportunity to connect and share their ideas and findings is a fundamental cornerstone of scientific advancement.”
“As a company, we are passionate about research in the development of our products and technologies,” said Leslie Winston of P&G Global oral care professional & scientific relations. “We are, therefore, pleased to support World Dental Posters with a grant as a way to allow, in particular, young and innovative researchers in the field of oral health to disseminate their findings and discover others working in similar areas.”
Posters uploaded on to the World Dental Posters site are indexed by title, author name(s) and key words and can remain on the site for free for as long as the author(s) wish. Future developments will include forum and discussion areas for connecting researchers with similar interests and ideas from different geographic locations who might otherwise be unaware of each other’s work.