1. Conference papers & proceedings

2. Many conference papers are published in journals and some may be released before a conference takes place. Other papers may not find their way to journals but may nevertheless be of interest to the researcher.

3. Perhaps one of the most important resources for conference proceedings is Web of Science with Conference ProceedingsWeb of Science with Conference Proceedings

4. The search page has drop down menus to enable you to search by conference. linguistics We will search for linguistics

5. You can refine these results by clicking on the arrow alongside conference titles

6. We will click on more options

7. We will look at this conference by clicking on it and then on refine You now get a fuller list of conference titles

8. And here are the 15 papers given at this conference

9. Web of Science is a multi-disciplinary database. There are other subject specific databases. For example IEEExploreIEEExplore There is a conference proceedings browse option

10. There is Engineering Village 2Engineering Village 2 You can limit by conference article Or you can search /limit by conference proceeding Conference proceeding

11. There is the ACM Digital Librarythe ACM Digital Library Click here for access to full text ACM proceedings Note also TOC service

12. There is Conference Papers IndexConference Papers Index Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences A search using the terms music and games gives 4 results

13. The 4 results

14. There are also freely available conference links on the WEB. See the following slides for some of the best.

15. There is the British Library catalogue which can be searched for conferencesBritish Library Search the Integrated Catalogue

16. Now click on catalogue subset search

17. Click on Document Supply Conferences

18. drama We will search for drama and NOT exact phrase

19. If we click on record no.9 we get full bibliographic information

21. There is the Bibliography of British and Irish History. A search under proceedings brings up over 11,000 hits. These hits are the constitute papers of the conferences

22. There is IntuteIntute Conference proceedings A search for conference proceedings in all subjects brings up over 500 records

23. There is allconferences.comallconferences.com

24. There is Conference AlertsConference Alerts

25. And finally there are United Nations conferencesUnited Nations conferences