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• Reference Room
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• Check Summit union catalog and the catalogs of other libraries.
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Conference Papers/Proceedings

Proceedings are published collections of papers given at meetings, symposia, workshops, conferences or congresses.

Papers are individual articles compiled into proceedings. Conference proceedings or papers are a rich source for information on current research and are disseminated in a variety of ways. They may or may not be published, that is commercially printed and made available to the public. Some proceedings are only given out at the conference. Some meetings papers are not printed, but are published on the internet.

Conference Proceedings

To find out if the OGI Library has a conference proceedings check Library Catalog

Use the keyword search and choose significant words from the conference title.

A source for identifying proceedings in other libraries is WorldCat, a database which includes references to proceedings found in libraries around the world.

Finding Specific Conference Papers

Individual papers may be identified by using print or online indexing and abstracting services. Indexes vary widely in subject areas and depth of coverage and should be used with this in mind. Broad subject groupings of indexes available in the OGI Library are listed on the Library's home page under databases. A complete alphabetical list of databases OGI has access to is also found there.

Some databases specialize in indexing conferences and their papers

• Conference Papers Index
  • International coverage of major scientific meetings.
  • Coverage from 1995 forward emphasizes life, environmental, aquatic sciences.
  • Older material includes physics, engineering, materials science.

• ProceedingsFirst
  • Citations to congresses, symposia, conferences, and workshops in the The British Library's collection.
  • Each record contains a list (or table of contents) of the papers presented at a conference.
  • Coverage from 1993 to date.
  • Use to determine if a conference has been held on a given subject.
  • Cannot search by individual author or paper title.

• PapersFirst
  • Citations to individual papers in conferences received at The British Library.
  • Coverage from 1993 to date.
  • Can search by individual author and paper title.

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Internet Resources for Conference Proceedings/Papers

Some professional societies' internet sites may help you identify their publications and conference proceedings.

• The University of Waterloo Library maintains a multidisciplinary list of professional societies' web sites.
• The University of California, Berkeley, Engineering Library maintains a list of engineering societies' web sites.

Locating Papers or Proceedings Not in the OGI Library

• Contact Interlibrary Loan to obtain a copy of a proceedings or conference paper from another library.
• Check the online catalogs of other libraries.

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