Information Types

What are Conference Papers?

• Also from workshops, symposiums etc.
• Papers researchers have produced for conferences are published in what are called conference proceedings
• They can be difficult to find and sometimes not all of the paper is published.
• They are usually distributed as printed volumes or in electronic form.  They may be considered as grey literature.
• Proceedings are published in-house by the organizing institution of the conference or via an academic publisher. Sometimes Conference proceedings are published as supplements or special editions of an academic journal.

Why do I need to use them?

• Good for keeping up with very current research in your field.
• Good background information on a subject or area of interest.

How do I find them?

• Findit@Flinders
• Library research databases
• Google
• Trove
• Other Libraries/ Libraries Australia/Trove

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