Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : May/June 2003

Searching for Conference Data on Dialog Services

Need news on forthcoming conferences, workshops and events, or an archive of conference proceedings and papers published from past conferences? There are a number of sources on both Dialog and Dialog DataStar containing this type of data, ranging from MediConf (File 431/MCNF), a database devoted to future medical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology conferences to the British Library Inside Conferences database (File 65/BLIC), containing bibliographic data on 500,000 proceedings added annually to the database.

Proceedings relating specifically to engineering and technology conferences can be found on Engineering Conferences & Reports, part of the Dialog OnDisc/@Site series. In addition, the latter is particularly important as a source of "gray literature," in other words unpublished reports that would otherwise not find their way into the public domain. However, please note that, from the end of March, the EventLine database (File 165/EVNT) is no longer updating, but remains as a non-updating file for archive purposes.

Conference proceedings are also included in the major "powerhouse" databases covering specific STM sectors, such as INSPEC® (File 2/INSP), PIRA (File 248/PIRA) and Ei Compendex® (File 8/COMP), all of which are available on Dialog, Dialog DataStar and Dialog OnDisc/@Site.

For further information on the databases mentioned, refer to the relevant Dialog Bluesheet or DataStar Datasheet.

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