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Find A Conference in a Specific Place and Time?

TOPIC: Occasionally you need to find a conference in a particular location during a certain year. In the biomedical literature Inside Conferences (File 65) and BIOSIS Previews® (File 55) provide specific fields to use to find conference titles, locations and dates. Conference Location (CL=) includes cities, states, provinces and countries. Conference Year (CY=) allows you to pinpoint the year of the conference.

In this example, you will search BIOSIS using precise steps to find a conference held by the European Sleep Research Society in Innsbruck, Austria, on September 12-16, 2006. You will see an estimate of how many papers were presented, and you will TYPE a list of presentation titles using Format 6.

In Inside Conferences you can use the same strategy. Additional files in the scientific literature with Conference Location, Conference Year and Conference Title fields include PASCAL (File 144), PsycINFO® (File 11), AGRICOLA (File 10), Inspec® (File 2) and Ei Compendex® (File 8). Files robust in providing individual proceedings titles include BIOSIS, Inspec and Ei Compendex.

 

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 55
SELECT CT=(CONGRESS(S)EUROPEAN(W)SLEEP(W)RESEARCH)
EXPAND CL=INNSBRUCK
SELECT E3
SELECT S1 AND S2
SELECT S3 AND CY=2006
TYPE S4/3/1
TYPE S4/6/1-703


HOW TO...



1. BEGIN File 55 to search BIOSIS for a conference.

2. SELECT the Conference Title (CT=). Note that the CT= field is word indexed, which means that you need to use proximity connectors and enclose your terms with parentheses following CT=.

The proximity connector (S) looks for words in the same paragraph or subfield. The proximity connector (W) specifies the second term must follow the first term.

?B 55 
File  55:Biosis Previews(R) 1993-2007/Mar W1
       (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation

      Set  Items  Description
      ---  -----  -----------
?s ct=(congress(s)european(w)sleep(w)research)
          318172  CT=CONGRESS
          218937  CT=EUROPEAN
            7268  CT=SLEEP
          298356  CT=RESEARCH
      S1    3369  CT=(CONGRESS(S)EUROPEAN(W)SLEEP(W)RESEARCH)



3. EXPAND the city of choice in the Conference Location (CL=) field to confirm indexing of the city, state or country name. The CL= field is word indexed (e.g. SELECT CL=(LAS(W)VEGAS)).

 

 

4. SELECT the E reference number of the city you wish to search.

?e cl=innsbruck 

Ref   Items  Index-term
E1      269  CL=INDIES
E2      175  CL=INDONESIA
E3     2712 *CL=INNSBRUCK
E4       25  CL=INOWROCLAW
E5     1452  CL=INSTANBUL
E6      867  CL=INTERLAKEN
E7       37  CL=INUYAMA
E8        1  CL=INVERNESS
E9       13  CL=INZELL
E10     143  CL=IOANNINA
E11    1779  CL=IOWA

?s e3
   S2     2712  CL='INNSBRUCK'



5. SELECT Set 1 (S1) and Set 2 (S2) to combine the conference results with the location.

6. SELECT the resultant Set (S3) and combine with the Conference Year (CY=). Dialog found 703 papers presented at the 2006 conference.

?s s1 and s2
           3369  S1
            2712  S2
      S3     703  S1 AND S2

?s s3 and cy=2006
             703  S3
          108674  CY=2006
      S4     703  S3 AND CY=2006



7. TYPE a record in Format 3 to view conference bibliographic details.

?t s4/3/1 

  4/3/1 
DIALOG(R)File 55: Biosis Previews(R)   
  (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
     
    19312797   Biosis No.: 200600658192 
    Sleep fragmentation reduces neurogenesis in the 
    hippocampus of the adult rat 
    Author: Guzman-Marin R (Reprint); Bashir T; Suntsova N; 
            Szymusiak R; McGinty D 
    Author Address: Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 
                    CA USA**USA 
    Journal: Journal of Sleep Research   15 ( Suppl. 1 ): 
             p 252-253 SEP 2006 2006 
    Conference/Meeting: 18th Congress of the European-Sleep- 
                        Research-Society Innsbruck, AUSTRIA 
                        September 12 -16, 2006; 20060912
     Sponsor: European Sleep Res Soc 
     ISSN: 0962-1105 
     Document Type: Meeting; Meeting Abstract 
     Record Type: Citation 
     Language: English



8. TYPE the titles in Format 6.

Note: A sampling of titles is shown.

?TYPE  S4/6/1-703
        4/6/1 
        DIALOG(R)File 55: Biosis Previews(R)
        (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
        
        19312797   Biosis No.: 200600658192 
        Sleep fragmentation reduces neurogenesis in the  
        hippocampus of the adult rat 
        2006   
        
        4/6/2 
        DIALOG(R)File 55: Biosis Previews(R)
        (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
        
        19312796   Biosis No.: 200600658191 
        Sleep deprivation alters synaptic plasticity and  NMDA 
        receptor function in the mouse hippocampus 
        2006 
        
        4/6/3 
        DIALOG(R)File 55: Biosis Previews(R)
        (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
        
        19312795   Biosis No.: 200600658190 
        Impact of acute sleep deprivation on the EPworth  
        sleepiness scale 
        2006 
              
        4/6/4 
        DIALOG(R)File 55: Biosis Previews(R)
        (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
        
        19312794   Biosis No.: 200600658189 
        Effects of bedpartners on the sleep-wake cycle 
        2006 
        
        4/6/5 
        DIALOG(R)File 55: Biosis Previews(R)
        (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
        
        19312793   Biosis No.: 200600658188 
        Sleep deprivation induced an increase in the  activity 
        of k+-stimulated p-nitorphenylphosphatase in rat brain 
        regions 
        2006 
              
        4/6/6 
        DIALOG(R)File 55: Biosis Previews(R)
        (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
        
        19312792   Biosis No.: 200600658187 
        Sleep deprivation-induced sleep rebounds are  attenuated 
        by a CCK-a receptor antagonist in rats 
        2006 
              
        4/6/7 
        DIALOG(R)File 55: Biosis Previews(R)
        (c) 2007 The Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
        
        19312791   Biosis No.: 200600658186 
        Recovery from sleep debt: the effect of varying  TIB sleep 
        dose on the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test 
        2006
        
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