Find Conference Citations for Specific Papers?

TOPIC: Several databases can be used to find conference and meetings citations in the biomedical literature. Inside Conferences (File 65) contains details of all papers given at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) since October 1993. BIOSIS Previews®, (File 55) is particularly strong in making available conference literature, in many cases with abstracts. Additional databases to tap for conference citations in the biomedical area include SciSearch®--A Cited Reference Science Database (File 34), EMBASE (File 73), and PASCAL (File 144).

In this example, you will search in BIOSIS for the 79th Annual Scientific Session of the American Heart Association, which took place in Chicago on November 12-15, 2006. You are particularly interested in a paper written by Benjamin D. Horne on the effects of pollution on ischemic coronary events.

For Inside Conferences and PASCAL use the same strategy as that for BIOSIS. Although EMBASE and SciSearch index document types as Conference Papers or Meeting Abstracts (DT=), it doesn’t necessarily mean that every paper is indexed as such. For EMBASE and SciSearch try searching for the known author and topic. See the Command Summaries below.

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 55
SELECT CT=(79TH()ANNUAL()SCIENTIFIC()SESSION(S)AMERICAN()HEART()ASSOCIATION)
VISUAL EXPAND AU=HORNE
Check boxes for all appropriate entries and click Select
SELECT S1 AND S2
SELECT S3 AND POLLUTION/TI
TYPE S4/6/1
TYPE S4/9/1

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN File 55 to search BIOSIS. 2. SELECT conference title terms in the Conference Title (CT=) field. Note: Use proximity connectors in the conference title. Notice the parentheses around the search terms following CT=. BIOSIS found over 4,000 conference citations from the 2006 American Heart Association Scientific Session. Note: It is possible to check for the presence of abstracts by using a database-specific limit feature (/ABS).
3. VISUAL EXPAND the author’s last name (AU=). 4. Scroll down the list to first names beginning with B and check boxes in front of all appropriate entries and click Select.
5. SELECT Sets 1 (S1) and 2 (S2). 6. SELECT a keyword regarding pollution in the Title or Descriptor (/TI,DE) fields.
7. TYPE the record in Format 6 to see the title.
8. TYPE the record in full (Format 9) format. Note: The record appears with an abstract. Searchers with eJournal subscriptions can have their Dialog account set up for access to fulltext in their eJournal holdings. Note: A portion of the record is omitted from this display.

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