The main differences are that a non-reviewed paper might be more about personal experiences or observations, wheras the peer-reviewed paper would be more research-based or scholarly.

We’re offering it as an option because we are hoping to hear a wide variety of papers, and because in Australia, universities gain points per publication as part of DEST’s Research Quality Framework.

This model was used by the last ALIA Biennial conference in 2004, you can see what sort of papers chose to be peer-reviewed on their programme page as a guide.