With a goal of providing a more timely and wider distribution of the information presented at the 11th Annual International Mars Society Convention, the Steering Committee approved changes to the publication policy for MarsPapers, the Mars Society's electronic archive of Mars related papers. Authors of all presentations made to the Mars Society Convention in plenary, afternoon, and evening sessions are encouraged to submit their PowerPoint™ or Keynote™ presentations for electronic publication in the Society's MarsPapers archives. Requirements for submittal of presentations to MarsPapers are: 

1. An email with paper title, authors, affiliations, email address of principal author, and abstract of the presentation to accompany the presentation file as an attachment.
2. PowerPoint or keynote files up to 10 MB in size may be sent by email. If your presentation is larger than that size, please email the editor for instructions on how to upload your file to an on-line drop box. Authors who wish to submit PDF files directly may do so.
3. Email your presentation to Frank Crossman, MarsPapers editor. Expect a response to your email from the editor within 48 hours

The MarsPapers editor will convert the presentations to PDF format and post the document with the accompanying information so that others may search on title, author, key words as assigned by the editor as well as all text appearing in the presentation and abstract. As in the past, only current Mars Society members are able to download the PDF file. All other information including abstract is available to members and non-members alike. Although not required, author notes that summarize the points to be made on each presentation slide or that give a background on the graphics on each slide are encouraged as a means to better inform the reader. If notes accompany the slides they will appear in the PDF of the presentation.