1. Conferences James Shaw and Sue Bird WISER Science

2. Conferences… Papers… Proceedings …

3. Proceedings

4. Finding conferences

5. Using technology E-MAIL ALERTS

6. Finding conferences:

7. e.g. Chemistry conferences

8. e.g. Psychology conferences

9. Finding proceedings

10. 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

11. Searching library holdings in Oxford University When searching OLIS 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 search box uses keywords & searches subject headings as well as titles

17. Conferences at the British Library The British Library catalogue can be searched at catalogue.bl.uk/ and catalogue subset search allows you to limit to conference proceedings catalogue.bl.uk/ ZETOC service allows searches for individual papers

24. 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

29. Conference indexes PapersFirst & ProceedingsFirst available through OCLC FirstSearch ISTP – Index of Science and Technology Proceedings available through Web of Knowledge Conference Papers Index available through CSA - Illumina

32. ISI Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings Now known as Conference Proceedings Citation Index & searchable from within Web of Science ISTP covers only publications in which the proceedings are published for the first time, and only those which contain complete papers, not just abstracts. 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.

34. Conference Papers Index (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses.

36. Subject databases Most subject-specific bibliographic databases include conference papers and proceedings Find those relevant to your subject via OxLIP+ eg: Scopus Biosis Previews SIGLE : System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts) Engineering Index – Compendex INSPEC (for physics)

37. Repositories Institutional and subject-based repositories being developed Oxford: Oxford Research Archive http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ora http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ora Search them via: OAIster http://www.oaister.orghttp://www.oaister.org Google / Google Scholar SCIRUS http://www.scirus.comhttp://www.scirus.com

40. 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 LexisNexis Nexis UK (Global Business and News Service)

44. 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.

45. To summarise Identify key organisations and personal contacts Get technology to do the work for you Many papers are available online Search library catalogues for print holdings 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.ouls.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarians http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarians

46. WISER Archive This and most of the other presentations in the WISER programme are available on the OULS site: http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/information_skills http://sers018.sers.ox.ac.uk/services/training/wiser