2026 Call for Proposals
The 2026 Call for Proposals is now open! Submit your proposal here!
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) planning committee is now accepting proposals for the sixth MIRL Symposium, a free event which will take place virtually on Thursday November 19 and Friday November 20, 2026. MIRL is a platform-neutral conference for IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings to discuss and share case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content.
- We are accepting proposals for:
- Lightning talks (approximately 10 minutes including Q&A)
- Vendor talks (pre-recorded and available as recordings only)
- The MIRL planning committee welcomes proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
- Unusual medical/health sciences institutional repository (IR) content, collections, use cases, collaborations, or challenges
- Policies and practices that ensure confidentiality (eg. PHI /personal health identifiers in IRs), accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Migrating repository platforms: stories, processes, and lessons learned
- IRs in a time of budget cuts: ROI and justifying the cost
- Finding your champions, marketing your IR
- Reporting out: telling your IR story with statistics and metrics
- IR harvesting and support tools, workflow
- Strategies for management of faculty/researcher publications, conference posters, student collections, digital exhibits, digital archives, preprints, datasets
- Promoting open access (OA) initiatives
- Use of technologies (from APIs to AI)
- Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday, September 4, 2026
- Acceptance emails will be sent no later than Monday, September 21, 2026
- Registration is free for all attendees and will open later this summer.
Important Dates:
Please contact Steven Moore for any questions about the proposal process or about MIRL.