The State of Scientific Poster Sharing and Reuse

[2604.21150] The State of Scientific Poster Sharing and Reuse Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Computer Science > Digital Libraries arXiv:2604.21150 (cs) [Submitted on 22 Apr 2026 ( v1 ), last revised 14 Aug 2026 (this version, v2)] Title: The State of Scientific Poster Sharing and Reuse Authors: Aydan Gasimova , Paapa Mensah-Kane , Gerard F. Blake , Sanjay Soundarajan , James ONeill , Bhavesh Patel View a PDF of the paper titled The State of Scientific Poster Sharing and Reuse, by Aydan Gasimova and 5 other authors View PDF Abstract: Scientific posters are one of the most common forms of scholarly communication and contain early-stage insights with potential to accelerate scientific discovery. We investigated where posters are shared, to what extent their sharing aligns with the FAIR principles, and how commonly they are reused. We identified 86 platforms hosting posters, with many not assigning persistent identifiers. A total of 150k posters are shared as of 2024 on the 43 platforms where we were able to count, which is relatively low. Looking in more detail at posters shared on Zenodo and Figshare, we found that repositories are not always supporting structured metadata critical for poster discovery, like conference information, and that researchers are not providing such metadata even if they are supported. We also observed that while there is some engagement with posters in terms of views and downloads, citing posters is not yet a common practice. These gaps mean valuable early-stage insights are being lost to the scientific community, pointing to a need for clearer guidelines and stronger incentives for FAIR poster sharing and reuse. Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL) ; Databases (cs.DB) Cite as: arXiv:2604.21150 [cs.DL] (or arXiv:2604.21150v2 [cs.DL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.21150 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Bhavesh Patel [ view email ] [v1] Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:29:39 UTC (992 KB) [v2] Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:37:08 UTC (1,197 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled The State of Scientific Poster Sharing and Reuse, by Aydan Gasimova and 5 other authors View PDF view license Current browse context: cs.DL < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.DB References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from

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