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this issue:
The
Director's Report: Library Renovation
Highwire: An e-journal platform that keeps getting better
Finding
Meeting and Conference Paper Abstracts
Security
for your PDA
Pubmed
Update
Electronic
Journals FAQ
Web
Watcher:
Grants or Funding Sources
Depression
and Anxiety: The Johns Hopkins White Papers
New
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Public Computers
Coming Soon!
e-Medicine:
A New Database
Longer
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Create Change: An advocacy brochure
for Open Access
Highlights from the Library
Open House, Fall 2003
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Editor:
Robert M. Joven, MLS Information & Education Services Ext. 8493 E-mail
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Finding
Meeting and Conference Paper Abstracts
by Robert M. Joven, MLS
Information and Education Services Librarian |
Important
scientific, medical and technical breakthroughs and developments are frequently
first announced at meetings and conferences. The papers presented at these
meetings very often provide access to experimental data months before
it appears in journals. Listed below are some of the electronic resources
available that provide aggregations of various meeting and conference
papers.
BIOSIS
PREVIEWS has recently added more than 50,000 meetings abstracts
to its database for select meetings from 2001 forward. Previously, most
BIOSIS Previews meeting citations appeared without abstracts with the
exception of citations that described the entire meeting. Now, citations
for the individual papers presented at the select meetings listed below
will also have abstracts for individual papers beginning in 2001:
American
Society for Microbiology (General Meeting)
American Society of Hematology (Annual Meeting)
Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Professional Research Scientists of Experimental Biology (Annual Meeting)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (Annual Meeting and
Exhibition)
Society for Neuroscience (Annual Meeting)
CANCERLIT
is a database produced by the National Cancer Institute that contains
abstracts to pre-2000 conference papers including the proceedings of the
annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology as well as
biomedical journals, books, reports and doctoral theses.
INSPEC, a database produced by the Institute of Electrical
Engineers (IEEE), contains citations to meetings in all fields of physics,
electrical engineering and electronics, and computing and information
technology.
POPLINE includes papers presented at conferences that
deal with such subjects as family planning programs, family planning technology,
population law and policy, population and environment and fertility. The
POPLINE database is maintained by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication
Programs.
BIOSIS PREVIEWS, CANCERLIT, and POPLINE
are available from the library’s homepage at http://library.uchc.edu/
under Databases. INSPEC is available from the UCONN Storrs
Library at http://www.lib.uconn.edu/.
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