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Cybersecurity: Conferences

About Conference Papers

What?

Conferences papers are the papers presented at a conference, meetings, symposia, etc. by individual speakers.
Proceedings are the collection of conference papers that are published by the organizing institution of the conference or via a publisher.  They are distributed as printed books, on CDs, or made available on the Web.  Proceedings may include whole papers or just the abstracts.

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Finding Proceedings and Conference Papers

Locating conference proceedings can be complicated because of variations in:
  • publication title
  • publication type (separate, one-time publications, serials, or as special issues in journals)
  • content (abstracts, extended abstracts, or complete papers)
  • publication date (some proceedings may be published long after the actual conference date)
  • sponsoring associations' name

Try several approaches and don't hesitate to ask a librarian for help.

 
Search for conference proceedings in:
  • CAMEO, the Carnegie Mellon library catalog
  • Online (individual or institutional websites)

      CAMEO, the library catalog

      CAMEO

      • Do an Author search - the best way to search for proceedings in CAMEO 

      E.g., search "International Conference on Computer Aided Design" as the Author, then scroll to the title of interest.  If known, limit by year of the conference or any other keyword.

      • Do a Keyword search on unique words in the title and/or sponsoring organization 

      E.g., IEEE mechatronics

      NOTE:  Exact title searching is not recommended due to the variability in the format of conference titles.

      Databases

      General Search

       
      Covering a broad range of subjects, this database is an index to every worldwide published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting that is included in OCLC.  Every record inludes a list of the papers presented at each conference. 
      The extended search fields list makes this database the best way to search for proceedings.

       

      Specialized Search

      Most professional organizations offer access to their sponsored conferences.

      ACM Digital Library
      ACS Publications
      ASCE Online Research Library
      Compendex and Inspec, via Engineering Village
      IEEE Xplore
      MRS Online Proceedings
      Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
      SAE Publications & Standards

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