Conference Proceedings: Databases for Conference Proceedings

Multidisciplinary Databases that Index Conference Proceedings

To identify conference papers in Web of Science, limit your search results to the document type of "PROCEEDINGS PAPER".

To identify conference papers in Scopus, limit your search results to the document type of "Conference Paper".

Web of Science Core Collection Collection of citation databases, providing abstracts and indexing and cited reference searching to over 10,000 high impact scholarly research journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings, and covering topics in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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Scopus A very large abstract and index database of research literature and quality web sources covering the science, technology, and medicine (STM), and social sciences.
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Google Scholar You can find the Library's full text holdings in Google Scholar. Just look for the "FindIt!" or "FullText" links on the right side of the screen, beside each search result. Access Note: To enable "FindIt!" on your home computer: On the Google Scholar page navigate to "Settings" > "Library links" > search for University of Saskatchewan > ensure all three checkboxes are marked > save.
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ProceedingsFirst An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings, including published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Records contain a list of the papers presented at each conference.
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PapersFirst OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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Subject Specific Databases that Index Conference Proceedings

These databases include conference papers in a wide range of disciplines in computer science, physics, and engineering.

Inspec & Inspec Archive A bibliographic database providing access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. Please Note: Arrangements for permission to text and data mine this resource can be made with the publisher. Contact the library at USask EResources in advance to arrange these permissions.
License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Compendex and Engineering Index Backfile A "comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research... containing references and abstracts to over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented." Also includes the Engineering Index online backfile from 1884-1969. See also EI Engineering Villiage. Please Note: Arrangements for permission to text and data mine this resource can be made with the publisher. Contact the library at USask EResources in advance to arrange these permissions.
License Information: Access is restricted to three (3) simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Engineering Village: EI Engineering Village Collection of databases covering scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines, earth sciences, ecology, oceanography and more. Contains articles, conference proceedings and full text of engineering handbooks. Includes full-text access to Compendex and Inspec.
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ACM Digital Library: Association for Computing Machinery Full text collection of the journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings and other publications published , co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers, and including archives. The collection is accessed through ACM Portal which also includes The Guide to Computing Literature. Access Notes: The search defaults to the ACM Digital Library. Select The Guide to search The Guide to Computing Literature. Users may self-register a username and password and login to have access to selected functionality such as tailoring their space or setting up alerts. Non UofS users may have limited access by creating a free personal account. First-time users must self-register a username and password. Click on the login button.
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IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) Allows full-text access to recent and some historical content including: IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines; IEEE conference proceedings; IET journals, transactions, and magazines; IET conference proceedings; and IEEE published standards (current + archived). Access Note: See beta version instructions for IEEE Xplore Mobile access (search only) from your mobile device (eg. iPhone, Blackberry). Access Note: IEEE will no longer provide support for IE11 as of May 31, 2022. It is reccomended you upgrade to a different version of the browser prior to May 31, 2022.
License Information: Access is restricted to fifteen (15) simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.