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| Conference papers are good places to find research from engineering or scientific societies or professional associations.
To find conference proceedings, you need to search a database that indexes them. For engineering, start with Compendex, GeoBase, GeoRef, IEEE Xplore, INSPEC, or SciFinder Scholar. Once you have information about the conference paper, such as the paper title, paper author, or conference title, check the JHU library catalog to see whether or not we own that volume. |
| | The proceedings from conferences, meetings, symposia, etc. can be difficult to find in library catalogs, because they don't fall clearly into either the "book" or the "journal" category. Be prepared to try several approaches and don't hesitate to ask a librarian for help.
To make matters worse, complete proceedings are not always published. Instead, sometimes "extended abstracts" or "digests of papers" are published instead. Tips for finding proceedings in the catalog: - Use the advanced keyword search feature in the catalog.
- Always search for the proceedings title not the paper title.
- Search for the editor if there is one not the paper author.
- If you are searching for a paper from a large conference producing organization, like ASME, try searching for the conference city as a general keyword.
- Can't find it, call your departmental librarian - don't spend hours trying to find something when you can call and ask for help.
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| | Understand the citation. Below is a sample citation. Bayazit, B., Hollingsworth, D., Witte, L., Heat Transfer Enhancement Caused by Sliding Bubbles; Proceedings of NHTC '01, 35th National Heat Transfer Conference, Anaheim California, June 10-12, 2001. Sponsored by the Heat Transfer Division of ASME, American Institute of chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) editors T.A. Bergman and C. B. Panchal. This citation includes the following sections: - Paper Authors: Bayazit, Hollingsworth and Witte
- Paper Title: Heat Transfer Enhancement Caused by Sliding Bubbles
- Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the National Heat Transfer Conference 2001 (NHTC '01), 35th National Heat Transfer
Conference
- Proceedings Location: Anaheim, California
- Proceedings Dates: June 10-12, 2001
- roceedings Sponsors: ASME, AIChE, and AIAA
- Proceedings Editors: Bergman and Panchal
When searching in the catalog use keywords from #3-#7 above to find the proceedings, do not use the paper author or paper title as keywords. Back to top |
| | | If the library doesn't own the proceedings, it is possible to get papers through InterLibrary Services. Always feel free to contact your departmental librarian if you have problems finding something. Back to top |
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