Finding Conference Proceedings

Conference proceedings can be difficult to locate; they can be published as books, journal articles, abstracts or not at all.

You can try searching in

• WorldCat, the Library Catalog, the following subject specific databases,

• Print indexes

  • Index to scientific and technical proceedings.
    Engineering Library Q 1 I5349 1978 JAN-JUN through 1993 V.5

  • Directory of published proceedings. Series SEMT:Science/engineering/medicine/technology.
    Engineering Library AI 3 D5755 V.2-3 1966/68 through V.26 1990/91
    PCL Stacks AI 3 D5755 V.3 1967/68 through V.34 NO.1-4 1998/99 USE IN LIBRARY ONLY

  • Directory of published proceedings. Series SSH: Social sciences/humanities.
    PCL Stacks AI 3 I576 V.1-2 1968-69 through V.31 1998

Please Ask a Librarian if you need further assistance.

General search tips for the Catalog and WorldCat:

• use the advanced/keyword search screen include the year of the conference include the the city in which the conference took place
• use keywords from the conference name NOT the article title)

Example Citation:

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: August 21-24, 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA / Robert Grossman; Roberto Bayardo;  Kristin P Bennett;  Jaideep Vaidya, 2005.