Finding Proceedings of Conferences or Other Meetings
Proceedings of conferences, congresses, symposia, colloquia, workshops, or other meetings are often difficult to find because they may be published as separate books, as a volume in a series, as articles or supplement(s) to journals, as preprints, or they may not be published at all. |
I. If You Have a Complete Citation
Example of a citation to a conference proceeding:
| Holt, Stephen S. and Lee G. Mundy. Star formation near and far. Seventh Astrophysics Conference, College Park, MD, October 1996. Woodbury, N.Y.: AIP Press, 1997 |
To find conference proceedings in the library catalog:
If there is a unique name of a publication, search as title in catalog. |
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If no title entry found, next try searching the name of the conference as author in the catalog. Omit the number, year, and location. You may find several records for different years or one record listing several years. You'll have to analyze the records and select the entry that best matches the information you have. |
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| This is what you will see by searching Astrophysics Conference as an author |  |
Select the first return, look at the results and select by date of publication (1996) |
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| If not located using these searches, try searching conference name (Astrophysics Conference) as keywords in the catalog and then limiting to year of publication; however, this search may result in several records for the items other than the one needed. |  |
II. If You Can’t Locate in the Library Catalog or if You Have Only a Partial Citation:
Example of partial citation: College Park Astrophysics Conference, 1997
You will need to verify whether or not the proceedings were actually published. Proceedings of the conference or other meetings may not have been published or may be part of another publication. There are several options you may want to explore.
- You may ask a Subject Specialist for help.
- You may want to try searching the Internet using Google, Google Scholar, or other search engines to try to find information about the proceedings. To limit number of items retrieved, use all of the keywords and dates that you have.
8th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland
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New Books
7th Astrophysics conference, College Park, MD October 1996. AIP Conference Proceedings 393. American Institute of Physics, 1997. A 19-7/65. ...
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| You may want to search WorldCat using the name of the conference or meeting as Corporate or Conference Name. |  |
WorldCat List of Records
Star formation near and far :
Seventh Astrophysics Conference, College Park, MD, October 1996 /
Author: Holt, Stephen S.; Mundy, Lee G. Meeting Name: October Astrophysics Conference (7th : 1996 : College Park, Md.)
Publication: Woodbury, N.Y. : AIP Press, 1997
Document: English : Book
Libraries Worldwide: 137 University of Arizona
III. If Publication Confirmed and Library Doesn't Own
- Once you’ve confirmed that the proceedings have been published, if the University of Arizona Libraries doesn’t own a copy you may request it through Interlibrary Loan at http://www.library.arizona.edu/services/ill/index.html. The time it takes to receive requested items varies depending on whether you request a book or just a paper from a volume of proceedings. The average delivery time for a book is 11 days. The average time for an article (paper) request to be filled is 4 days. Delivery time is dependent on the library sending the material and the availability of the requested material.