Library Guides: Grey literature: Conference proceedings

Finding conference proceedings

Conference proceedings:

are the papers and abstracts that have been presented at conferences and meetings
often may represent the preliminary work and the full results may be published in a later paper

There are a large number of sources to search for details of conference proceedings and abstracts including many databases.

Resources in which conference papers can be found:

IEEE Xplore digital library
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers conference papers.
Web of Science
Includes references to conference papers from multiple disciplines.
Scopus
Citation database that includes conference papers.
Embase This link opens in a new window
Health sciences database that includes reference to conference papers.
Conference proceedings citation index. Science This link opens in a new window
Conference papers from the science disciplines.
Conference proceedings citation index. Social science and humanities
Social sciences conference papers.
Proceedings of SPIE
Comprises volumes from conferences sponsored or cosponsored by SPIE - Optics and photonics.
ACM digital library publications
Association for Computing Machinery
OnePetro
OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Includes many full text conference papers.