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Read more about access rights of live and replay content on the ERS Respiratory Channel per format.
The ERS Congress Platform is available only to registered participants and remains accessible for a period of three months after the end of the event (until the end of the year).
Access the Congress live platform.
Replays for most ERS Congress sessions will be available for registered participants on the ERS Congress platform 48 hours after the end of the session. The ERS Congress platform is available only to registered participants and remains accessible for a period of 3 months after the end of the event, until the end of the year.
After 3 months, the session replays are then moved to the ERS Respiratory Channel. Registered participants can still access the replays for an additional period of 3 months.
Six months after the end of the ERS Congress, the access rights to the contents are changed and become accessible to ERS members only, for an unlimited period.
ERS webinars are streamed live on the ERS Respiratory Channel and available only to registered participants.
Replays of ERS webinars are available on the webinar page on the ERS Respiratory Channel, normally from the day after the event. Webinar replays are accessible to registered participants and ERS members.
If the webinar is part of a webinar series, then access to ERS members is only granted after the end of the final episode of that series.
Access to webinar replays is unlimited for registered participants and ERS members.
ERS Satellites is an online event which is streamed live on the ERS Respiratory Channel. The live event is available only to registered participants.
The replays for ERS Satellites are made available on the event page on the ERS Respiratory Channel, generally a week after the end of the event.
The event replay(s) for ERS Satellites are available to everyone indefinitely.
The live page for an ERS conference or research seminar is accessible on the ERS Respiratory Channel to registered participants only.
ERS conferences include the Lung Science Conference (LSC), Sleep and Breathing, Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation (RFMV) and the Adult Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Conference.
Session replays for ERS conferences and research seminars are available to registered participants on the ERS Respiratory Channel event page, generally two weeks after the event finishes.
Session replays for ERS conferences and research seminars will be available for registered participants until six months after the event finishes. After six months, session replays become available for all ERS members only for an unlimited period.
Some ERS courses are streamed live on the ERS Respiratory Channel. Live access is available for registered participants only.
Replays become available for registered participants on the course page on the ERS Respiratory Channel, generally from the day after the event.
Replays of ERS courses which have been streamed on the ERS Respiratory Channel are accessible to registered participants on the Channel page for six months after the event finishes. After this, the course page is closed and removed from the ERS Respiratory Channel until the next course edition is launched.
Content type | Live access | Replay access | Access duration | Access change |
ERS Congress | Registered participants on the the ERS Congress live platform | Registered participants 48 hours after session;
ERS members after six months on the ERS Respiratory Channel |
3 months (participants), unlimited (ERS members) | After 6 months, accessible to ERS members only |
ERS Webinars | Registered participants on the ERS Respiratory Channel | Registered participants and ERS members generally from day after event on the ERS Respiratory Channel
*in case of webinar series, for ERS members after the last episode |
Unlimited | No change |
ERS Satellites | Registered participants | Public access generally from week after on the ERS Respiratory Channel | Unlimited | No change |
Conferences and research seminars | Registered participants on the ERS Respiratory Channel | Registered participants generally two weeks after event ends; ERS members after six months | 6 months (participants), unlimited (members) | After 6 months, accessible to ERS members only |
ERS courses | Registered participants on the ERS Respiratory Channel | Registered participants generally from day after event | 6 months | Course website removed after 6 months for next edition to be launched |