For scholars, students, and other users, the repository:
- Offers an opportunity for broader access to work presented at AERA Annual Meetings
- Serves as a reference on current scholarship and research
- Outlines guidelines for citing scholarship presented at Annual Meetings
For presenters, the repository:
- Allows work to be shared open access and with a broader audience than those attending the session
- Records in a permanent online archive the full-text of authors' work
- Includes a digital object identifier (DOI), a persistent identifier that makes authors’ work easier to discover, locate, and cite.