conferences james shaw and sue bird wiser finding stuff
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Conferences allow you to:
Tools for gathering information
E-MAIL ALERTS
General Websites:
Web 2.0 tools for monitoring conferences
Finding Published Output
Finding proceedings•Often difficult because of variety of ways of publishing•May be no Proceedings, but selected papers published separately
•No comprehensive listing•Check:
• Library catalogues• Organisation’s websites• Conference databases• Subject databases• People who went
Locating conference papers• If you are given a reference to a conference paper that doesn’t
mean it was necessarily published!• Recent papers might be on web – try searching on the paper
title, author, organisation name or the conference name• Sometimes you can quite easily track down the author and they
will send you a copy• If published conference papers are not available in Oxford
the Library Services can usually get hold of it for you
through inter-library loan
Searching library holdings in Oxford University
• When searching SOLO for a conference paper you need to search for the proceedings of the conference rather than the specific paper
• Conferences are treated as corporate authors• Published proceedings may have different title to the
original • Publisher may be different from conference organiser
SOLO
• SOLO has no option to limit by document type so you need to use keyword search and include ‘proceedings’ ‘conference’, ‘symposium’ etc as keywords alongside subject terms
• Most conferences in the collections will have a Subject Heading which includes ‘Congresses’
• So best search for keyword(s) in titles and subjects,
and for Congresses in LC Subjects, e.g:
Other Library catalogues
•See OXLIP+ under Library Catalogues
•Especially useful for UK is COPAC
or British Library Catalogue
•You can ask for Inter-library loan of identified conferences
Conferences at the British Library
• The British Library catalogue can be limited to just conferences
• The ZETOC service – http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents.
This database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year.
• Almost 15 million article and conference records• Use the ZETOC Alerting service (via O.S.S.)
British Library•The British Library integrated catalogue
includes over 400,000 conference proceedings on a variety of subjects
• Go to the British Library integrated catalogue home page • Choose "Search the integrated catalogue" • Click “Catalogue subset search” from the top bar • Then choose “Document Supply Conferences”
from the list.
Google & Google Scholar•Use Google for locating announcements of forthcoming conferences
•No controlled vocabulary, so search for ‘conference’ and also synonyms – meeting, symposium, congress etc
•Prefer Google Scholar for conference papers
Conference Paper Indexes
•CPCI – Conference Proceedings Citation Index
– now incorporated into Web of Science
•Conference Papers Index –
available through CSA Illumina
•PapersFirst and ProceedingsFirst –
available through OCLC FirstSearch
• Find all these via OxLIP+
Conference Proceedings Citation Index
CPCI covers only publications in which the proceedings are published for the first time, and only those which contain complete papers, not just abstracts.
• Coverage includes international proceedings, and is not limited to those in the English language, (currently 110,000+ proceedings).
• Published proceedings may be included from a number of sources; books or series produced by publishers or societies, reports, sets of preprints (when preprints are the only publications from a conference) or journals.
• More than 12,000 conferences added annually – some 5.2 million papers in total.
Conference Papers Index (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
This database provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings.
• Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses.
• Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts,
proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, plus title & author information needed to track the specific papers.
• Available through OxLIP+
PapersFirst• OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide• Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition,
workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
• Database details • SubjectsThe wide variety of subjects discussed at the covered meetings.• Sources Included in each record.• Number of records: Over 6,500,000• Dates covered: 1993 to present• Updated: Semimonthly (twice a month)• Available through OXLIP+
(search title index or under general bibliographic tools)
Proceedings First [OCLC]
• Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
• Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference. • Subjects: conference proceedings, meetings, congresses, symposia,
exhibitions, workshops• Sources Included in each record.• Number of records: 192,000+• Dates covered: 1993 to present• Updated: Semiweekly (twice a week)• Available through OXLIP+• and search title index or under general bibliographic tools
Subject databasesMost subject-specific bibliographic databases include conference papers and proceedings
Find those relevant to your subject via OxLIP+
Some databases will allow you to limit by conference as document type eg:
SCOPUS ; Historical Abstracts
OpenSIGLE : System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
PAIS International (Public Affairs, Development, etc.)
(via CSA Illumina)
Repositories• Institutional and subject-based repositories being
developed
Oxford: Oxford Research Archive
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
Search them via: OAIster http://www.oaister.org (or via OxLIP+)
Google / Google Scholar
SCIRUS http://www.scirus.com (or via OXLIP+)
Newspapers• Often report on major conferences, usually while
being held• Frequently do not give any indication of where
proceedings / website can be found• Search newspapers through Nexis UK, available on
OxLIP+• Totally international with worldwide coverage
– not just UK
Quoting• Be consistent and follow a standard system, e..g.
Harvard, when referring to papers or proceedings.• Give as much detail as possible – remember how much
trouble you had finding it! An accurate reference will help others.
• Generally include:• Author(s) of paper - surname and initials Year of publication, 'Title of
paper - in single quotation marks' [in] Editor (if applicable), Title of published proceeding which may include place held and date(s) - italicised, Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers.
To summarise• Identify relevant organisations and mailing lists for information on
upcoming conferences• Many papers are available online • Use Inter-library loan service for printed items not held locally• There are specific databases for conference proceedings • Many general or subject indexing databases allow you to search
for conference proceedings• Your subject librarian is always ready to help - see
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarians
WISER Archive
•This and most of the other presentations in the WISER programme are available on the Bodleian Libraries site:
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/training/wiser